The Last Starship (Video 2017)

The Last Starship: Directed by Sven Knüppel. With Emilio De Marchi, Cecile Decker, Christiane Hilbert, Ulrike Kargus. In a post-apocalyptic world, war is raging once more. The last of humankind are hunted by a giant monster, attacked by an army of zombies, and ancient machines of war. The only way out is to fight.

“This movie intrigued me enough to write my first review. If you can keep focused you can follow through all the way to the end, or maybe the beginning. They call this The Last Starship, but the Starship doesnu0026#39;t actually do anything but land during the closing credits. I came here to see if there was a sequel to unravel the what seemed to be the beginnings of a plot.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhere things get lost is there are at least a dozen sides in this warfare movie. You never quite knew who was friend, enemy, distrusted ally, ally of necessity, sleeper agent, turncoat or zombie. If you try very hard you can follow a few of the threads, but Iu0026#39;m certain I missed even more. Basically everyone is trying to kill you or your group as you travel through a hostile wasteland on a mission known only to the main characters, but each of the main characters seems to serve a different master with different orders. In the end the only unifying thread is survival, but you are never quite sure who you should be routing for to survive. I think I understood what was going on by the end, but in the end all of the threads were left untied.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIf you can stomach a movie where the plot is wildly fragmented, you donu0026#39;t know friend from foe, characters are minimally developed, dialog is muddled with alternating languages, and lots of people get killed then you might be OK with this. It isnu0026#39;t all bad. That might be too generous. It is all bad, and it is nearly unwatchable, but as the credits rolled I found myself wanting more.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIf they could have taken this one movie and instead made a TV series out of it, where they could have devoted one episode to properly explore each of the characters and factions, it might have worked.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBy the end I did not feel that I had wasted my time, but I did feel that I had only seen a small part of a much larger story.”