WHAT’S IT ABOUT
Jimmie and his best friend Mont try to reclaim the house built by Jimmie’s grandfather, launching them on a poignant odyssey that connects them to their past, even as it tests their friendship and sense of belonging in the place they call home.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
So this is what it has come to. A non-Hollywood film with rave reviews before the general public is allowed to comment. This is the P.R. department trying to sway the mindset of weak individuals that will like or hate something based on what those “out of touch with real people” critics think. Well, now that real moviegoers (and real critics) have had a chance to see it, here’s the real review.
The Last Black Man in San Francisco is a film produced by and made for film students. It’s filled with unnecessary over-the-top acting, language, and metaphors that only a grad student will appreciate. This film feels like a student’s final project waiting to be graded in order to graduate. If I were the professor, he would easily pass the class. Here lies the problem. What’s shown in the film, only works as a class project and does not transfer to real-world believabilities. For everyone outside of a classroom, The Last Black Man in San Francisco is a slow, nonsensical 2-hour waste of time. Nothing is explained, the foul language is bassless, and the lack of a coherent idea leaves you confused and reaching for a purpose to justify not walking out. Every scene feels like its own separate poetic tribute to San Francisco or some type of weak innuendos about Black people. I really wanted to like this film after hearing about it months in advance, but after seeing it, I felt betrayed and lied too. The Last Black Man in San Francisco is an artsy film project that didn’t deserve a national release but instead should only have been shown at a private theatrical function amongst friends. As I stated earlier, it’s not a bad movie if you’re a film student, it’s just not a commercially acceptable movie and by standard viewer logic – it sucks.
OUR RATING – UNFORTUNATLY NOT THE LAST 2
MEDIA
- Genre – Drama
- Street date
- Digital – August 13th 2019
- DVD/Blu-Ray – August 27th 2019
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 1:66:1
- Sound – English DTS-HD MA 5.1
- Subtitles – English SDH, Spanish
Extras
- Audio commentary with writer/director Joe Talbot
- Ode to the city: finding The Last Black Man in San Francisco