Last Survivors Review: Silverstone & Moyer Are Good In Sci-Fi With Wicked Twist
Last Survivors will surprise everyone who watches it in one way or another. It is a movie that lives and dies on suspension of disbelief and plot twists. Veteran actors Alicia Silverstone (Clueless) and Stephen Moyer (True Blood) effortlessly carry the indie sci-fi flick, while lead Drew Van Acker (Titans) is trying a little too hard. That’s not to say Last Survivors doesn’t offer more. The snowy locale of Butte Montana paired with the cinematography by Julián Estrada does wonders for each wide shot, and both immediately elevate the film.
Jake (Acker) loses his mother as a child and is scurried away from the tragedy by his now-widowed father, Tro (Moyer). The two have been living in the mountains ever since that horrible day that turned their lives upside down. The problem was that it was no ordinary death and no ordinary day. Now 25, Jake has grown up knowing nothing but fear and contempt for outsiders — namely, anyone who tries to disrupt his way of life. Trained to hunt, live off of the land and never leave the property, Jake was taught many things by his father, but not all of it was good and not all of it was true. This becomes apparent when Jake meets someone other than his father for the first time in Henrietta (Silverstone), the first outsider he doesn’t kill on sight. She shows him exactly what he has been missing cooped up with his dad all these years and it leads him to ask new, yet obvious questions about the world.
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It might not sound like much, but that's because there’s little to say about the plot mechanics of Last Survivors without spoiling it. Sadly, most people will see the trailer before watching the film, but if one
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