Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Lancoor A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Dan1863Sickles This movie is pretty bad, but not as bad as I thought it would be. Gus Van Sant is a guy I really hate because his movie EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES ruined one of the best books I ever read. (Read the book by Tom Robbins, it's amazing.)So I assumed going in that Van Sant meeting Kurt Cobain was going to be a typical Van Sant massacre, a Bambi Meets Godzilla orgy of artistic self-indulgence with Gus doing Kurt "his way." And I was right. But strangely, if you give this movie a chance it's not all that bad. The condescending, one-note story line, (helpless, fragile, beautiful boy dies slowly while drainers, users, liars, and cheats circle like vultures), is rendered poetic and even poignant by the sheer artistry of the camera work and the striking visual images. It's a great achievement, in a way. Gus Van Sant can convey despair better with a single shot of tall grass than another director could with ten pages of dialogue. You have to give him credit, in a way.Lost in all the dreamy doom and damnation, however, is the disturbing sense that Gus really doesn't know much about Kurt Cobain . . . other than that he was a beautiful boy who died. (And therefore the perfect object of desire?) Even though Michael Pitt (later to become a legend as Jimmy Darmody in HBO's BOARDWALK EMPIRE) gives an incredibly charismatic and nuanced performance, there's nothing here to suggest the dynamic energy of a charismatic and rebellious dynamo who changed the music world forever. Whatever music you hear is only to underline the despair, not the talent.Meanwhile, the outside world, (the squares, the straights, and always and above all the women) are dismissed as irrelevant and grotesque, monsters who just don't love our beautiful boy enough. This is sheer laziness. The cheap shots at Mormons and traveling salesmen would have been stale on a vaudeville stage one hundred years ago. But Van Sant can get away with it, because by God he's a real artist with a dreamy touch. All that art in the service of so much self-indulgence.

dragokin There are pros and cons to docudrama. Gus Van Sant used and misused this approach in Last Days and created a haunting atmosphere. In the long run, it became demanding to watch, not because of adult content or obscenities but exactly because this was a docudrama.Since we all know who this movie was about, it is amazing to see how lawyers influenced Last Days. Apparently a lot of people were unhappy about the plot, so all reference to Kurt Cobain and events surrounding his death have been removed. Still the main character is spitting image of Kurt Cobain and the events depicted correspond to what we've heard from the media.But even without these impressions, Last Days is not something you could watch an enjoy. At times it hasn't been a drama but rather a documentary without much going on, yet this "nothing" got shown in great length. There was some reference to drug use, but even that has only been hinted. Despite the atmosphere that built up, we weren't smarter after the movie. We still only know what media told us about the death of Kurt Cobain.

rbk102750-1 Beside being trite and a story line too often used, the chromatography was a complete bore. It tried way to be hard to be ultra artistic instead of trying hard to help tell the story. From the ultra slow pans around the actors to the too often used window reflections to the fade out blur...OMG it was so boring I could hardly stand to watch it.Now I will take the rest of the review to waste even more of your time trying to meet the ridiculous and arbitrary minimum 10 line review requirement of IMDb. Really, you guys should know better than anyone not ever movie deserves a 10 line review.if you decide to watch this movie, Please, please don't pay any money to do so...You will feel ripped off.

jeannine-17 The movie needs a story and dwells on morose and dingy themes of growing insanity. If you wanted a movie to capture what it must have felt like to ***BE Kurt Kobaine then BINGO this is your movie. If you want to be entertained look elsewhere. This is a train wreck. No story ... No story ... No story ... No story ... NO STORY. You can make the same points but have a story.Some small sections of music make this tolerable. The scenery is awesome.Why did I waste my time? It is like looking at a car wreck you just can't help it