Sam Worthington plays a bad dude in this beautifully scored, authentically unhygienic drama
Problem children … Sam Worthington in The Last Son.Last modified on Tue 2 Aug 2022 08.21 BSTomewhere in the wild west, sometime after the civil war, legendary outlaw Isaac LeMay decides to take his fate into his own hands and circumvent a prophecy that he can only be killed by one of his own children. That means tracking down his many offspring and slaying them first, one by one.
Meanwhile, LeMay is himself being tracked by various unaligned bounty hunters and folks with a grudge or cause, such as gun-and-tracker-for-hire Solomon , a former Union soldier who was raised by Native Americans, Cal a son of LeMay who’s taken up the family trade of outlawing even though he never met his Pa. There’s also a daughter, Megan , who seemingly felt slighted when LeMay declined to kill her, thinking she was too meek to pose a threat.
This is the sort of western in which most of the characters are covered in authenticity-guaranteeing dirt, dried blood and food stains, so as to signify the poor hygiene conditions of the period. Grotty mise en scene in westerns like this goes back a long way, at least as far as McCabe & Mrs Miller , and got a big boost from the TV series Deadwood and arthouse westerns such as The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
Mossman’s score and the filtered, painterly cinematography by David Gallego are by some distance the film’s most interesting features; the rest of the drama is in fact a slog, full of ponderous long takes and somewhat tinny dialogue.
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