lordtillium Apocalyptic movies are some of the most overdone, repetitive, and terrible movies that keep being created, and that is coming from a huge fan of the genre. Unlike most other apocalypse style movies "The Last Days" pulls out new a creative conflict that is not often considered instead of using one of the vanilla end of the world scenarios. "The Last Days" does a phenomenal job of creating relatable and believable human conflict that drives the characters to make decisions that in turn drive the story. The mixture of successes and failures experienced by the characters blends beautifully into the story and leaves you feeling the same emotions as the protagonist. With that in mind the special effects are not great but are not used enough to degrade the story at all. A must watch for any apocalypse fan.

Donald Buehler Realistic, compelling, insightful - these are not usually the words used to describe post apocalyptic movies, but they fit this one. Set in Barcelona, a world wide pandemic of agoraphobia strikes and people are stranded at work, in shops, in their homes. Marc and Enrigue become an unlikely team in that each is stuck at work and they need to reach their girlfriend and Father respectively.Both Spanish actors do a credible job of playing their roles, without some of the corny, expected actions you get in movies of this sort. Aside from the world wide agoraphobia, this movie makes you think this could really happen.The back story emerges as Marc is reminded of the past - especially the recent past when he learns that his girlfriend is pregnant. (And of course his last conversation with her was that he wondered how anyone would want to bring a new life into this screwed up world. Way to go Marc, you know how to say the right thing at just the right time.) At the time he did not know she was pregnant.There is plenty of tension as they make their way through the sewers of Barcelona to seek their loved ones, but this movie does not produce a lot of those "jump out at you" scares that are common in these types of movies. The movie was better for their absence.But what really makes the movie is the uplifting ending. I won't tell you what it is, because this movie is worth seeing. But you will feel the love and hope portrayed at the end. An ending worthy of Dean Koontz.I have a list of apocalyptic movies to watch - I'll be surprised if any of them surpass this one.

Gin-ster This movie was actually pretty good! You have to suspend disbelief regarding the likelihood of a virus coming along that renders people unable to go outside without dying of a virus that causes such severe agoraphobia that people convulse and die. However, once you accept the premise it is actually quite a good film! The characters are engaging, and the claustrophobic feeling comes through, as does the fear. SPOILER - at one point a character resolves to cross a street (out in the open), and as he does so you are given a sense of how sick-making the experience is for him.There are some real downsides to the film as well; others here have commented on the plausibility problem, and there are indeed many issues, mainly, how are people surviving at all, given the fact of being trapped indoors, away from any means of obtaining food? But one thing is marvelously different about this apocalyptic, end-of-the-world scenario - people don't fall on each other in a savage dog-eat-dog rampage. It was a refreshing change not to see the same ol' "Mad Max" style post-apocalypse free-for-all. Yet it's not as if they unite in a "we are the world" fashion either, so there was nothing "feel-good" about it.I was concerned at the end approached that it would do the obvious and pull a Hollywood ending - SPOILER - unite the hero with his pregnant girlfriend, and they would then go forward "Adam and Eve"-like. I also half expected that one of them would go outside and find that, mysteriously, the virus would've passed and they could now go outside with impunity to start the world anew.However, the ending (SPOILER) came close to these clichés, yet not .... true, they had the baby; and the baby grew up. However, he could go outdoors, and they could not, so they remained trapped while he went off with similar next-generation kids who were immune. So, yes, the world is going to begin "anew" but in a strange twist the main characters remain marooned.All in all, implausible as it was, it created and sustained a mood and perhaps even operated on a bit of a "metaphorical" level. I recommend it despite the not insignificant shortcomings; sci fi fans could do a lot worse.

rpdibley The premise for this movie was something pretty original. There is a worldwide epidemic in which people become agoraphobic when they go outside, suffer a heart attack, and die. It doesn't happen all at once, and there's no explanation for it. Clever. Marc is stuck at his workplace and the whole movie is about him trying to find his girlfriend. He teams up with a consultant, hired to "trim the fat" in his office, and who found a GPS to allow them to navigate amongst the sewers and underground mass transit tunnels. (GPS wouldn't work, but I'll give them a break here) That first 20 minutes of setup was done reasonably well. The concept was unique, and the way they introduced the back stories of the characters through flashbacks was done well. The character development was reasonable, at least as good as you can expect in a modern film, where directors just want to skip to the story or the action.After that, the movie goes downhill rapidly. Instead of making it a realistic portrayal of a guy just struggling to find his girlfriend after a worldwide apocalypse, they turn it into a half-rate action movie, with gun fights, grizzly bear attacks, "Waterworld" shopping mall gangs, exploding camp stoves, etc.... The supporting characters are kept only so long as they're needed by Marc, then they're thrown away at the script's earliest convenience. It ends with a happy ending, but by that point, you really don't care that much because, with a movie like this, you know how it's going to end already.Could have been great... oh well.