Protraph
Lack of good storyline.
Chirphymium
It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
Robert Joyner
The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Sharan S
I rarely watch movies on TV. It's because I can't stand these commercial breaks every ten minutes. But, while this movie was telecasted, there was hardly any. After watching the film, I knew why. The film is an 83 minute claustrophobic thriller. Having used the term 'Claustrophobia' I must confess it doesn't take place wholly in a single place, but moves on to different locations. Locations like rooms in a school, a TV studio and a ventilation shaft. Time and again, we seem to be so much influenced by TV that we prefer using TV shows as the base of the movie. For example, 13B is an Indian film which uses a specific TV soap as the setting of its base. All they watch on TV happens in their lives. Somewhere, the protagonist identifies the broken link and solves the mystery. But, I agree that there were a lot of unnecessary gimmicks in 13B. But, Sidste Time, a Danish (Denmark) film fills you with enough thrills to keep you glued to the screen. It is thrilling that we have seen many movies in the same treatment but we fail to notice that it is not what it usually is in the end. Take 13B for example again, the protagonist solves the mystery, finds the killer and kills him. Here in Sidste Time, the seven students serving late detention in high school are killed by a Frankenstein-like guy who is found dead in the first scene a la Saw!Desperate to find a life as an actor, we have the seven actors – Lene Laub Oksen, Mette Bratlan, Tomas Villum Jensen, Karl Bille, Rikki Louise Andersson, Laura Drasbaek and Ken Vedsegaard. The film was worth watching till the climax. The climax is where everything went haphazard. We get to know in the first scene that Micky Holm has a special power and in the climax scene we are told again that he has a special power. God! I may believe in you but certainly not this bullshit. Man creates technology, technology creates psychopaths and psychopaths create newer technology leading to where it all began. Perhaps, the worst scene in the film can be the climax. But, due to a few other scenes in the film, everyone may need to know about the climax. The climax is such a horror. We see films where the hero is pulled into every odd and finally ends up alive and healthy. Later, the trend of shutting down heroism and bringing in realism was introduced. Bet my butt, realism never existed. We saw over realism. That's what monster films and thrillers in Hollywood are doing. A group of people are shown in the first scene. Slowly, one by one keeps dying and finally the last person to die will have his name first in the credits as he was there through the whole movie. If you ask me, I won't recommend it to anyone but those who want to be 'great' directors like J.J. Abrahams, Quentin Tarantino etc. Sidste Time (Final Hour) is quite a gruesome thriller with loose ends. The film isn't that bad to be watched one. But, you have to risk 83 precious minutes to watch it.
OlliBLN
Seven pupils of a school are told to school by mail, regarding their failed behavior. They met in the biology classroom. Suddenly the door is shot, the curtains going down. On a TV, their failure is mention and they have to find out a riddle: "A murdering has happened in this school, find the murder!" After talking about a legend about a teacher, murdered by pupils in the biology classroom, they find a hanged and heavy wounded man. Also they found out, that the TV was not plugged in.During this time, Mickey Holm, a talkmaster of the Reality-Show "Sidste Time" gets a facsimile from the school. He and his team are going to the school, to film what happens. He is glad, because until this time, he had no material for the evening show.The pupils try to leave the school, but all doors, windows are closed, nobody can hear them. One by one is found murdered. While the TV is showing the "Sidste Time"-team on the school playground, later also INSIDE the school building and showing the murdered pupils, the scary children don´t see anything of the team, looking on the same playground.Rough pictures and scary atmosphere are great parts of this danish movie, in good tradition of "Nattevagten" ( or "Nightwatch" ). A school as death trap with a maniac murder and a situation of no escape, no matter what they do. The pupils do not stand together, because of their very different personalities.The movie is very confusing, especially at the end. Did not figure it out yet, but it is one of the most interesting part of this movie. Alse a great example for danish cinema.
Elfenomeno
This movie is definitely the best within this area up to date! The story is very cool, supernatural but that just makes it even better. I must say, I was surprised, because I didn't think Denmark could make a film like this, but I guess we can! More of that kind please! It's a film you just have to see..
McBuff
In the wake of "Nattevagten" came this drearily routine slasher movie, written by novelist Dennis Jürgensen, which depicts a bunch of kids trapped in their school with a serial killer (yawn!). Meanwhile, a tabloid TV crew covers events from outside. Apart from a few grisly murders, including one gruesomely inventive scene involving a face and a hot-plate, film has nothing to recommend it, with barely credible performances and awfully predictable shock scenes.Won´t scare anyone who has ever seen a real horror movie, but might appeal to the "Scream/I know what you did.../Urban Legend" crowd. Followed by a similar Schmidt/Jürgensen collaboration, "Mørkeleg".