Gus Van Sant’s film Last Days is loosely based on the final days of Kurt Cobain, the lead singer and guitarist of grunge rock band Nirvana. If Cobain’s last days were truly as boring as Van Sant depicts them then it’s no wonder he killed himself!

I wasn’t sure what to expect going into this film but I had absolutely no idea that it was going to be so relentlessly boring. It was one of those films where you keep waiting for something to happen, but it never does. It just keep meandering on with nothing of real interest happening. The film is so mind numbingly boring that I couldn’t even remember the name of the main character until I went to the film’s Wikipedia page. Anyway, the main character, Blake, who is meant to be Cobain, spends most of the film wandering around his mansion muttering incoherently to himself. When he’s not wandering around his mansion muttering incoherently to himself, he’s wandering around the woods near his mansion muttering incoherently to himself.

The film contains very little dialogue or action and ends up being a very hollow, empty experience. Gus Van Sant is a skilled filmmaker so I can only imagine that this was his intention. Why he chose to make this film escapes me. The Wikipedia page says that he thought about this film for nearly a decade before making it. Well, to be honest, this is one film that should have stayed in Van Sant’s head because inflicting a film this monumentally boring on an unsuspecting public is just cruel. Not nice Gus!

It’s not often that I want my hour and a half back after watching a film, but that was my first thought after the end credits started to roll on Last Days. This is quite possibly one of the most boring films ever made. Avoid at all costs… unless, of course, you’re looking for something to put you to sleep.