Last Seen Alive
After Will Spann's wife suddenly vanishes at a gas station, his desperate search to find her leads him down a dark path that forces him to run from authorities and take the law into his own hands.
- Released:
- Runtime: 120 minutes
- Genre: Action, Thrillers
- Stars: Gerard Butler, Jaimie Alexander, Dani Deetté, Russell Hornsby, Aleks Alifirenko Jr., Emily Brinks, Robert Walker Branchaud, Rachel Trautmann, Cindy Hogan, Matthew R. Staley, David Kallaway, Alphonso A'Qen-Aten Jackson, Jordan Salloum, Brice Anthony Heller, Ethan Embry, Bruce Altman, Michael Irby, Chip Lane, Billy Burns, Robin Fletcher, David Gurule, Samantha Lawless, Christie McLendon, Alexandra Miles, David Perez
- Director: Brian Goodman
Comments
- JayWolfgramm - 27 June 2024
Great Sense of Panic, Until it Goes off the Rails
This movie begins on the wrong foot. It starts by showing a scene that happens later on in the story. I have seen this trope so much; it has driven me crazy. In this case showing the later scene kills part of the tension.
Once that part is out of the way, the movie is actually very gripping. The tension and suspense are all handled quite well. This is where the low budget actually works to the film's advantage. The movie feels grimy, it has this real lived in world feel to it. This visceral feeling helps the audience feel the stress of the protagonist.
It is around the hour mark of the movie that the story loses its grounded sense of reality. The story presented a lot of good mysteries, but the answers are underwhelming.
It is a good half of a movie, and for that, it gets half of a score. - pati-29164 - 13 January 2024
Jack Bauer did it better
Unfolds like "The Vanishing", and then goes off the rails. I kinda hoped for something that was more realistic, but after the first 20 minutes, nothing about this was believable. Calling 9-1-1 and being transferred to a detective because a grown woman is missing for 20 minutes? Police questioning the husband like he's a suspect when the wife has only been missing for 90 minutes, yet there's no proof that she's even missing and the husband is the one that reported her missing?
Husband tracks down the suspect, beats him, kidnaps him, and runs from a traffic stop?
Husband takes down some "bad guys", causes mayhem, and when it's all over (10 hour ordeal?), the police have a confession from one guy, no charges for the husband, and the husband and wife - still in the same clothes - walk away smiling?
"24" did this better, and it was more believable.
