indieke This is the kind of movie, when I was young I took a bus ticket to town for, and went in a small art movie theater watch original movies.The story is simple, but the actors look like they have been filmed, not playing a role, but living it. Sure there are a few flaws. The Doctor not looks real, compared to the other characters, some people encountered are a bit too stereotype, but you always get involved with this "normal" Joe Taxi driver.The pace is slow, but nevertheless, you are at the edge of your seat, what will happen next. I got sentimental in the beginning of the movie, what he would do to the dog. It even upset me so much, that I thought now the movie was ruined for me. Lucky it did not, and I saw the best, most human movie this year.

Reno Rangan When a movie is based on the play, setting wise it will be a tight narration. But the advantage is, movies can expand its screenplay in the natural world where stage plays has a limitation with the fake backgrounds. And obviously movies can reach any corner of the earth in the todays digital world while plays are for a limited live audience. So I think that is how this play turned into a motion picture, importantly, it was funded by the government and all the above it won a couple of Australian Academy Awards.It was a cancer themed thin comedy-drama with a little road adventure in the backdrop. A story that follows a 70-year-old cab driver Rex from Broken Hill. He has never been outside his town until he finds he has a cancer, so he takes a 3000 kilometer drive to Darwin looking for a doctor who can help him with his suffering. At the dusk hours of his life, he encounters some strangers and many stuffs for the first time. So this film is all about his final and best experience in the end of the life journey.I like sentimental films, I chose it because I haven't felt the emotions through my heart for a movie in the recent time. I expected it to fulfill my desire, but it only fell short. To me it was a decent movie in the first half, but it got better in the next half. The opening was kind of slow and dry, the cast was totally unfamiliar to me. I needed time to get used to a sudden change of accent after watching so many Hollywood flicks. Because you know we don't watch Aussie movies everyday and so the style of comedies differs with the different region."You want everything to be black and white, but it's not. It's gray."The best thing ever happened was the introduction of the characters Tilly and Julie. One is an aboriginal and the other is a British who joins Rex, the Aussie. They are the main source for the story to grow in the right direction. Because of them the narration had a subplot to focus their perspectives as well. Without them definitely it would have been a worthless flick.The end was not at its best. It hat many options, but they decided to finish it in an uncertain manner. Since it was a road movie, I also anticipated exhibition of beautiful Australian landscapes, that never came. I understand they don't want distraction from the main plot, because this was one of those films that took time for the characters to settle down. Even though it approaches the conclusion, the characters had kept deepening in its development.My upset with the movie was, it was a quite different from the usual cancer films. Precisely to say, it was very weak in the exhibition of character feelings. Certainly it won't make you weep. Just like one of the lines at the beginning that says 'everyone gets cancer', the movie was too casual like this is a regular thing. But the scenario where the story sets in and takes us with it was exceptional. I have a hesitation to recommend it, but it is a good movie if you're okay with the thing I expressed which are lacking.6½/10

diggus doggus I did not like this film.As you would know, it's the story of an Australian man who decides to end his life through euthanasia, due to the cancer that's about to kill him anyway. Now, aussies have done controversial issues before, most notably in my memory being Priscilla, Queen of The Desert. But they've always had a typical ozzie twist to them.But Last Cab to Darwin is not like that.Supposedly, this is a road movie, where a character is transformed though their journey; cab driver Rex is an old man of little success, always living in dead-end Broken Hill, has few friends and no family, and when he receives the news that he has barely 3 months to live, he decides to end it all - his miserable life, his unfulfilled relationship with a aboriginal woman, his dreams of happiness.Heading off to Darwin, the other side of Australia, he meets local character - all with their problems and dreams - to whom he brings his old Aussie wisdom and in the end, closure, success, and a the willingness to dream again.Sort of.Unfortunately, the well-meaning Last Cab does little of the aforementioned. The story is very bare, the characters uninteresting, and there is very little writing that will keep you amused and/or interested.And here is where my problem lies: the trailer made it seem so good.I'll grant you that i was mostly drawn in by the photography, as the film is very well shot; however, as others have pointed out, it fails to capture the beauty of the Australian landscape, instead choosing rather boring, mundane locations. Also, the trailer captures the very few, very best bits of the writing, while most of everything else you'll have to sit through (a full two hours) will be mostly just Rex grumbling.There is just not enough (barely any) content to keep me interested. The photography is nice, but it pales in comparison to my recently reviewed Beyond The Reach, so if that's what you want, go see that one instead. The dialogue is barebones, the acting is .. well, decent, but the characters are bland. It's a shame that it turned out this way, but i really cannot recommend Last Cab To Darwin.my final vote: 5/10 - just not "film" enough.

David Combs The Australian movie, "The Last Cab To Darwin" released in 2015 is a superb movie that was very well received in Australia. I highly recommend it. The American audience deserves to see this sensitive portrayal of life, redemption, and death. A must see.I was visiting Brisbane from the U.S. this August 2015 and Mission Impossible was sold out so I went to this wonderful movie instead. What a lucky break for me. This movie tackles self choice over death when faced with a terminal disease. It portrays a lonely man's journey across Australia and the grace he is blessed with by his experiences and the characters he meets. A truly sensitive look at what makes a life meaningful.