Movie: The Last Seven

• Director: Imran Naqvi
• Release Date:
• Writers: John Stanley
• Run Time: 84
• Genre: Thriller

Tagline: London Population: 7 Million. Until Today.

Review: the titles cut through religious imagery, C.O.D. inspired soldiers, and Danny dyer having fun with fake blood all blended together with stills of bomb making and after effects made by a talented fringe fan who needs better kit.

we pause on a carefully chosen “simon carter of London watch” on the wrist of our blacked out protagonist William Blake (drawing in the poetry fans now, arn we). cut to b-rolls of 28 days later while Blake pulls himself together, beginning his search for characters to interact with and recover his memories of the night before and why was he running about with a gun.

im being a bit harsh with the 28 stuff, they are really effective in making the city feel empty all the way through the film and gives it its mood.

after a bit of a wonder our guys understandably getting a bit frustrated with his search for dialogue and smashes up a perfectly good set along the way giving up Blake sets off to the nearest roof top and his opportunity to leave the narrative.

but Blake is drawn back in with the introduction of the cast. the fowl mouthed cloie (with the usual confusing casting of a 20 something to play a teen), sergeant jack the cockney soldier (who makes an entreating stereo-type), the comic relief henry Chambers MP, the knife welding by-lingual beauty Isabelle, the creepy Isaac and captain Robert Kendrick who leads them through the broken narratives of the various characters memories.

the narratives are combines with skillful editing and some really clever transitions and layering of shots from different timeliness together. this gives the film a very fragile reality from where even Danny dyer can creep out credibly as the angel of death with another reference to 28 days to scare us with.

all in all the last act and prologue are very satisfying and worth the slight disorientation along the way. if you watched the anime angel beats this spring youll probably enjoy seeing how a western writer deals with the similar scenario.