Damning with Faint Praise: THE LAST ENEMY

Stephen Ezard (Benedict Cumberbatch) returns to a near-future England in the wake of his brother’s death.

He meets his brother’s widow, and the seriously ill woman that the widow is treating.

Then the ill woman dies, the widow vanishes with the body, and Stephen gets chatted up for a job promoting TIA – Total Information Awareness, a unified government database.


Verdict
Well directed, produced, and acted, and yet it completely misses the point.


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