Dan Hodges Although this film is very much intended to be based of off the "Final Days" of Nirvana front-man Kurt Cobain, its strengths lie in the haunting and relentless misery of protagonist Blake.The fact that Blake is intended to be a pretty direct allegory for Cobain is largely irrelevant to the mood and feel of the film. You could go into this film not even knowing who Cobain was and it wouldn't change your experience with it. Blake is a very depressed musician on his last legs who has pretty much entirely given up on life. That's all you really need to know. Although there are references to Cobain life and death, they feel mostly superfluous and don't really add anything to the film. Final Day is ultimately a film successful in its understanding and presentation of depression and isolation but not as a film depicting the last days of Kurt Cobain. You will be disappointed if you go into this film expecting a good Cobain/Nirvana film.

mercuryix2003 ......are the only two words that apply to this film. It can only be called a film because that was the medium it was shot in. We will never know what was in Gus Van Sant's mind when he made this movie, and that may be his private joke; because he may very well have had nothing in mind when he made it. The film is a detached view of the last days of a self-indulgent, unaware drug addict, so detached that it might have been shot with a security camera affixed to the wall as it watches a man stumble around, ignore his friends, stumble around, ignore his family, stumble around, listen to a Jehova's Witness try to convert him as he sits there totally tuned out, stumble around, hide from a detective trying to find him, stumble around, wander into a potting shed, stumble around, and die. I have just given you the entire plot of Last Days, but did not give a "spoiler alert", as there is no plot, action or dialog to spoil. If a friend wanted to show you a security video of the last eight hours of a homeless drug addict's life in an alley before he slowly dies in front of you, would you watch it? I actually would, rather than watch this again. Because at least I would be watching a real life and death event, without the suffocating pretentiousness of this film.On top of that, we can't forget that we are watching the pointless and self-indulgent destruction of a millionaire who had far more success than he deserved, was overrated to an embarrassing degree, was more narcissistic than was previously thought humanly possible, and had friends, family and a wife who loved him far more than he deserved. In his own suicide note, Cobain referred to himself as a big baby. At least he was self aware to that degree. His mother after his death said "now he's gone and joined that stupid club". (Referring to the death of Jimmy Hendrix and Joplin by drug overdose, at age 28). His mother had more meaning, depth and insight in her life than her son ever did. Who cares about his life, he wasted it, and who cares about his death, as he didn't care about whoever cared about him? That is the feeling this film leaves in you; though I'm not sure Gus Van Sant cared about any meaning or effect this film had. Finally, who cares about this film? Its subject had no meaning and nothing to say, and neither does this. If you somehow think Kurt Cobain was a "genius" of some kind, and that his death at a young age had some kind of deep meaning, please, please consider a better role model. (And no, Marilyn Manson is not a better role model. At least Cobain wasn't That pathetic.....)

Je re I wasted about 30 minutes of my life watching this - that was all I could cope with. I don't want to even spend my life writing a review but it was *SO* bad I had to add my warning to the world.Just look at all the other one scores - everything they say is TRUE. Yes TRUE.It is probably the most dull, tedious, nothing-happening, paint-dryingly monotonous movie in human history. And it will possibly still come top if you add in alien histories too. Even if you wind the clock forward some billions to the end of time. Then add in all the other universes and multiverses and include everything ever made ever. Then I would guess it will STILL be up there in the top rank. REALLY.I can only surmise that those who commented "Brilliant" and "A modern masterpiece" on the DVD cover were driven MAD by this movie. After 30 minutes I was heading there.If you're fortunate enough not to have payed for this thing already - you have been WARNED.(And don't think it sounds *SO* bad I must see it. Don't.DON'T!!)

alternategender Exactly what one would expect from Gus Van Zandt... artistic brilliance.-(There are instruments that cannot be selected There are some instrument combinations that cannot be selected within the same kit, or with certain trigger inputs. The V-EDIT process is not available for all instruments (p. 136).edited. So if you assign a "V" type sound to an input other than 1-6, you cannot use the V-Edit parameters. For details on assigning instruments, refer to p. 136. The parameters available in V-EDIT will differ depending on the trigger input and instrument selected. The following parameters can be edited.)And the main actor nailed it... what one would think.