Synopsis
Miguel, a heroic Spanish doctor, puts himself in harm's way to deliver medical treatment to the victims of military uprisings in Africa.
Your Movie Library
Cast
- Charlize TheronDr. Wren Petersen
- Javier BardemDr. Miguel Leon
- Jean RenoDr. Mehmet Love
- Adèle ExarchopoulosEllen
- Jared HarrisDr. Farber
- Hopper PennBilly Boggs
- Denise NewmanSarie
- Mark De VilliersWren's Father
- Amy Harries-JonesYoung Wren
- Obed BaloyiAtef
Recommendations
- 40
CineVue
Penn's film doesn't entertain greatly nor does it have much coherent to say. - 30
Screen Daily
The film is mostly unmoving, neither the romance nor the social consciousness succeeding in stirring our emotions. Even worse, Penn lets the plight of displaced Africans slip into the background, resulting in yet another well-meaning film that wants to address planetary ills by concentrating our attention on the good-looking outsiders who come in to save the day. - 30
Variety
The Last Face would have been a better movie if it had an actual screenplay, rather than the bare-bones one credited to Erin Dignam. - 25
IndieWire
Even without its mopey, painfully on-the-nose dialogue and ponderous story, The Last Face sets itself up for failure with its premise, and Penn's apparent inability to recognize it as such. It's his worst movie. - 20
The Guardian
Nothing about the film comes close to authenticity and it’s largely down to Penn’s remarkably amateurish direction. - 20
The Hollywood Reporter
[A] stunningly self-important but numbingly empty cocktail of romance and insulting refugee porn. - 20
The Telegraph
Both the festival and filmmakers might have been better off waiting another week, until the screens were empty and delegates had all gone home, before unveiling this thing, perhaps to a slightly less derisory audience of seagulls. - 20
Time Out London
Sean Penn's pompous, ethically bankrupt humanitarian aid drama The Last Face would surely have worked better as a charity single.... Instead, we get this vain mess, a vacuous romance with real human pain as background noise and where the only honest pleasure is waiting to see what misstep it will take next.
