Review by Wayne Richards
It's a question as old as the hills:
what happens to us after we die?
THE LAST ROAD presents a bleak, yet
unique prospective on those postmortem possibilities. In his
independent British film debut, writer/director John Wheeler
constructs a dark, desolate landscape filmed in the English town of
Westbury. Wheeler creates a gloomy panorama of dread; a macabre terrain sparsely inhabited by the unfortunate miscreants deemed unworthy of God. It has
elements of a post-apocalyptic horror film, but might be more
accurately described as a dark drama with splashes of lively gore. The bulk
of the film focuses on a young fighter named Toby who scrutinizes the
events of a life unfulfilled as he adjusts to his new existence trapped in
limbo.
