Your Company
 

Last Ride

✭ ✭ ✭   Read critic reviews

Australia · 2009
1h 41m
Director Glendyn Ivin
Starring Hugo Weaving, Tom Russell, Anita Hegh, John Brumpton
Genre Drama

A desperate father takes his ten-year-old son, Chook, on the run after committing a violent crime. As the two journey into the desert and an unknown future, their troubled relationship and the need to survive sees them battling the elements and each other.

Stream Last Ride

What are people saying?

What are critics saying?

63

New York Post by

The trouble is that the film also wants to make Kev at least partly sympathetic, despite his monstrous treatment of his son, and nothing we learn about him ever does, or could, accomplish that.

60

Time Out by David Fear

If Last Ride leans heavily on fugitive-life lyricism, it benefits from an incredible father-son chemistry between Weaving and Russell-one that makes the movie's inexorable drive toward tragedy that much more gut-wrenching.

60

The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

Mr. Ivin doesn't have a strong narrative line to play with or become distracted by, but he takes off on some lovely detours, whether he's narrowing in on Chook or going wide to take in the world that waits beyond.

80

Village Voice by Nick Schager

Newcomer Russell, at once tough and vulnerable, canny and damaged, delivers a performance of nuanced naturalism that starkly conveys the sorrow and sacrifice that sometimes come with learning to achieve self-sufficiency.

100

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

The film is astonishing in its visual beauty; cinematographer Greig Fraser ("Snow White and the Huntsman") finds nobility in this arduous journey.

Users who liked this film also liked