Worst of the Worst movie reviews - The Last Days of American Crime (2020)
Every week I’ll be watching the worst rated movies on Rotten Tomatoes so you don’t have to. I’ll be doing one every week until the final issue where I’ll review the worst movie ever made (according to a random article I found). What are my qualifications you ask? I took Introduction to Media Studies in my first year and got a B average, so I think I know what I’m talking about. I’m going to watch each of these movies and decide whether it is rightfully on the worst movies of all-time list, based on my expert opinion.
The Last Days of American Crime
The Last Days of American Crime is a 2020 special, released on Netflix in June. Obviously, it’s a crime movie.
Netflix originals are always very hit or miss, they produced the outstanding Kissing Booth trilogy, but also released some random little movie called Don’t Look Up. The timing of this movie release couldn’t have been worse, it depicts a lot of police brutality and came out during the height of protests in response to the murder of George Floyd.
Poor taste aside, this movie is really nothing special. It’s essentially a reverse purge idea, where the US government intends to release a tool that will prevent anyone from breaking the law. Of course, people try to break the law before the tool is released, and it turns into a heist film.
This movie doesn’t really offer anything unique, it’s just your bog-standard crime movie. There’s a notorious crime family who runs things, and there’s a bunch of entirely unnecessary shoot-out scenes. Even worse, there’s a few scenes that depict police brutality and abuse of power. It just feels very violent to a point where you actually get sick of it.
The Last Days of American Crime is also two and a half hours long, which is significantly too long for a film that’s plot summary doesn’t even take up a whole page on Wikipedia. It’s extremely dull, even during supposed ‘action’ scenes. You can’t get invested in a two-and-a-half-hour movie where most of the time is spent on violent scenes, because you simply don’t care about the characters or what happens to them.
All in all, this movie sucks. If you see it on Netflix and think ‘oh yeah that looks okay to watch on a Sunday night while eating a takeaway,’ don’t.
I’d give this movie a 4.5/5, 5 being the worst movie ever.