Actors like Helen Mirren, Bob Hoskins, Tom Courtenay, and Ray Winstone for example ought to guarantee a good movie. This is the fact also in "Last Orders". The film is touching and the main characters are about 70 years old, which is rather rare of course. This is an everyday-drama with strong emotions, but for some reason one doesn't get as involved as one had expected.
Maybe it is because of the glimpses from the past, which are too theatrical. These glimpses are as they were from another film, trying to imitate not the reality of those days but the movies of for example the late 30s. That drags "Last Orders" down and that's a pity.
Maybe it is because of the glimpses from the past, which are too theatrical. These glimpses are as they were from another film, trying to imitate not the reality of those days but the movies of for example the late 30s. That drags "Last Orders" down and that's a pity.