Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Pluskylang Great Film overall

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

gizmomogwai Peter Weir made a classic with Picnic at Hanging Rock in 1975, a mysterious, intriguing little film arguing there are things out there we can't really understand, in the world generally and the Australian wild in particular. The Last Wave follows some of those themes and has much of the same mesmerizing, dream-like style.That said, there are differences. Much of the movie is a legal drama, following a white lawyer handling a criminal case of Aborigines accused of manslaughter of one of their own. Although this happened in the city, he becomes convinced the Aborigines are not city people but members of remnants of a tribe. He argues the victim died of sorcery and defends his clients under tribal law. At the same time, he is experiencing strange dreams while Australia becomes subject to strange weather patterns, including large hail and black rain.I'm a kind of person who likes legal dramas, including unorthodox and complex ones- bringing sorcery into the courtroom is unusual, with tricky undercurrents (the lawyer is confused of racism in romanticizing the Aborigines). The supernatural elements are also intriguing, but that said, I was a little disappointed when the movie drops the courtroom story completely (it's mentioned he's lost his case) to focus on the dreamtime story. The remainder of the movie becomes abstract and harder to explain, but it can still draw you in.

wes-connors A crushing hailstorm in Sydney, Australia is bad enough to injure schoolchildren. Heavy rains continue while successful lawyer Richard Chamberlain (as David Burton) dines with his wife Olivia Hamnett (as Annie) and two little daughters. Upstairs, their bathtub overflows, causing water to run down the stairway. The taps seem to have turned on by themselves. The rains continue to slam down on residents as Mr. Chamberlain agrees to defend five Aborigines (native Australians) accused of drowning a man...Chamberlain is startled upon meeting one of his five wayward clients, eerie David Gulpilil (as Chris Lee), who previously appeared to him in a dream or vision. When even more mysterious Nandjiwarra Amagula (as Charlie) appears, the plot thickens. The rain turns darker..."The Last Wave" is an interesting take on the Sumerian "Flood Story" re-told in tales of Gilgamesh and Noah. It seems appropriate that a fourth flood (by one count, anyway) should herald an Apocalypse. Although story gets washed away in hocus pocus; it is thought-provoking, well directed by Peter Weir, and beautifully photographed by Russell Boyd. You could probably come up with several better endings; a simple re-editing of what is there would be more satisfying and less confusing.******* The Last Wave (11/5/77) Peter Weir ~ Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Nandjiwarra Amagula

Rockwell_Cronenberg The Last Wave is an excellent example of a director taking a subject that I couldn't be less interested in and making it mildly worthwhile. The bland Richard Chamberlain stars as David Burton, a lawyer in Sydney who has to defend five Aborigines against a murder charge. This could have been a compelling thriller, with themes of racial injustice and the works, but instead it focuses so heavily on the fact that the murder was a ritual one by their tribe and it delves deep into the supernatural element of it all.The film goes heavily into this tribe and an epic prophecy about the rain coming and all of that, but I honestly got incredibly lost in the whole thing. Maybe it was my lack of interest in the subject matter that led me to fall so far behind, but I don't think the script did a solid job of getting the knowledge across. So when the epic final sequence came, I was impressed on a technical level but still didn't understand much of what was happening. Some of the blame could be removed from the script though and placed on Chamberlain, who is such a dull lead performer that it would be hard for anyone to focus on this character. There are some moments built around Burton's family that could have been touching, but when you don't care at all about the character it's kind of hard to care about his struggles with his family.Still, I'm giving the film a slightly positive rating thanks to Weir's direction, which despite my lack of interest was able to impress several times. It takes a lot to leave me thinking about a film whose story I couldn't care less about, and that goes to show the skill of Weir's work here. As with all of his films, there are several powerful sequences that are staged with expert precision on his part. Throughout the film Burton experiences terrifying dreams of the Aborigines and these sequences get right underneath your skin and create an eerie sensation for the whole picture. They are appropriately chilling and set up the entire tone, constantly leaving you in suspense. I just wish that the story itself had been half as gripping as the individual sequences.

Boba_Fett1138 This movie really starts off promising alright but the movie in the end is being still a slightly disappointing one, with its eventual end result.I just didn't liked what and where the story was heading to. I was really interested at first, when the story grabs you with its original mystery but soon the story starts to go downhill, due to the direction it's starting to take with its story. At first the movie makes you go; that's interesting! But in the end it makes you go; who cares! In that regard "The Last Wave" is being a slightly disappointing movie. The movie just doesn't do a very great job with keeping your interest, which is also due to the, at times, messy storytelling. Lots of things don't get resolved, or explained properly enough.Still it's a movie that deserves lots of credits. Even though the story doesn't always work out and doesn't manage to be an interesting one throughout, it's still a very original and refreshing one. This is definitely a one of a kind movie, that balances somewhere between a more art-house type of movie and a regular '70's thriller/mystery.The movie also does work out refreshing due to its settings. This is an Australian movie, that is also being set in Australia. So next to its 'change' of settings, the movie also features some different from Hollywood type of characters. Aboriginals also play a large role within this movie and mainly so does their culture.The movie gets for most part carried by its leading man, Richard Chamberlain. He does a great job at it. He has never been an actor that has broken through big time but he basically is a guy that does a great job with any type of role that he plays.It's a movie that I have some mixed feelings about but still, overall the positive and original aspects of this movie outweigh its negative and less successful sides.7/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/