The Last Bus

Aight cuzzy, lets make a film yeh where we get an old white man who takes a bus from from Scotland to Cornwall cah trains no longer exist in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nothern Ireland, put him in bareeeeee scenarios where he shows hes bareee calm and dat it will be a banger kasmeh bro.

Aight cuzzy, lets make a film yeh where we get an old white man who takes a bus from from Scotland to Cornwall cah trains no longer exist in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nothern Ireland, put him in bareeeeee scenarios where he shows hes bareee calm and dat it will be a banger kasmeh bro.

sorry but i can’t see him not as peter petigrew so my empathy was low but it was a sweet story

sorry but i can’t see him not as peter petigrew so my empathy was low but it was a sweet story

I have a few issues with The Last Bus. 

The first one being just how miserable it is. I knew by the synopsis that it wouldn’t be entirely happy and upbeat as it mentions he’s on this trip because his wife has just died. However, not only are we greeted to a flashback of his baby daughter dying, in the present he is mugged, pushed over more than once, kicked off a bus in the middle of nowhere while being visibly injured, and spends a lot of the movie coughing up blood. 

Another issue, for me, is that you don’t really get a sense of where he is or how much he has travelled. There is occasionally a shot of him looking at the map but it doesn’t work to show just how far he has gone. He’s supposedly going 838 miles but you don’t feel that at all.

I think I was just expecting a different movie and was disappointed at what I actually got. I wanted a fun, exciting adventure with a 90 year old man and instead got racist drunks and misery.

I have a few issues with The Last Bus. 

The first one being just how miserable it is. I knew by the synopsis that it wouldn’t be entirely happy and upbeat as it mentions he’s on this trip because his wife has just died. However, not only are we greeted to a flashback of his baby daughter dying, in the present he is mugged, pushed over more than once, kicked off a bus in the middle of nowhere while being visibly injured, and spends a lot of the movie coughing up blood. 

Another issue, for me, is that you don’t really get a sense of where he is or how much he has travelled. There is occasionally a shot of him looking at the map but it doesn’t work to show just how far he has gone. He’s supposedly going 838 miles but you don’t feel that at all.

I think I was just expecting a different movie and was disappointed at what I actually got. I wanted a fun, exciting adventure with a 90 year old man and instead got racist drunks and misery.

Good movie it was sad but also boring not for me

Good movie it was sad but also boring not for me

Wanted to like this but it's really got nothing going for it beyond one nice My Fair Lady singalong. Dry of any wit and needlessly grim in tone, Spall seems to be playing 30 years older than he is and it's a ridiculous Putters and Murmurs performance.

Wanted to like this but it's really got nothing going for it beyond one nice My Fair Lady singalong. Dry of any wit and needlessly grim in tone, Spall seems to be playing 30 years older than he is and it's a ridiculous Putters and Murmurs performance.