The Last Station Reviews

I wasn’t sure what to expect from this flick but since there was a nice cast, I was quite eager to check it out. First of all, I have never read anything written by Leo Tolstoy but it was quite interesting to learn a little bit more about his life, at least the end of it. Apparently, in his lifetime, he was a already an international superstar and his life oddly resembled the everyday routine of some of our popular pop-stars, with the paparazzi constantly around and his entourage constantly manipulating the poor fellow. A part from that, it also reminded me of another movie starring James McAvoy, ‘The last king of Scotland’, in the sense that even though McAvoy was the main character, the main point of interest was a real life figure and he just happened to be around. Honestly, I don’t really like this gimmick (in ‘The last king of Scotland’, it was even worse since his character didn’t really exist at all). Of course, I understand that his character more or less represents the viewer but, in the process, you spend a lot of time with the wrong character in my opinion. Still, the cast (Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti, James McAvoy) was really good but I just had a rather hard time to really care about the whole thing. To conclude, I do have a weak spot for real life stories dealing with renown artists and even though this one was not really amazing, I still think it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.