siderite The first thing you notice in this film is the low budget. The special effects are rather lame, the filming is in Romania and the actors are known low budget TV actors like Michael Madsen, Sean Pertwee, Billy Zane and then only rising Alexander Skarsgard. But the second thing one can't help but notice is that there are a lot of "meaty" characters in the film, no cardboard roles, each one with a story and complex motivations.Even if the story is a bit silly at times, it manages to remain entertaining and having the viewer root for all sides. It is not original in its idea of soldiers trying to make a quick buck during "the fog of war", but the details of the story make it fun.So, in conclusion, once you get off your high horse and accept this is a low budget TV movie, you can thoroughly enjoy the film.

zardoz-13 This marginal World War II thriller takes place late in 1944 against the historic setting of the disastrous Allied mission code-named Operation Market Garden in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands as various elements find themselves contending with each other for horde of Danish treasure that the Gestapo have stored in a booby-trapped barn. A group of British troops have been diverted from Operation Market Garden for another mission code-named Operation Matchbox, but things take a predictable turn for the worst when their C-47 is struck by enemy flak and they crash far from their landing zone. The British commander dies when German troops cut them to pieces on the ground, but the stout-hearted Brits reassemble and wipe out the Germans. Sean Pertwee of "Event Horizon" plays a rugged British sergeant who is wounded in the leg, and Billy Zane of "Titanic" fame is a Canadian glider pilot. Meanwhile, the Nazis are preparing to move the loot when a couple of renegade Germans show up and the Americans, led by Colonel J.T. Colt (Michael Madsen of "Reservoir Dogs") have just captured a bridge without firing a shot. Director Colin Teague, who helmed episodes from the new 2007 "Dr. Who" and "The Sarah Jane Adventures," has put together a shoddy, low-budget "Kelly's Heroes" knockoff that lacks either a shred of authenticity or charisma. Virtually everything from the uniforms to the equipment is wrong. For example, when the gliders are towed off the runways of England they are hitched to four-engined Wellington bombers, but when we see them over enemy country they are being towed by U.S. C-47 Dakota transports. Men on both sides masquerade as their respective enemy as the action boils down to a fiery climax."The Last Drop" gets off on the right foot with a exciting little battle between the Brits and the Jerries, but afterward the screenplay by Gary Young and Teague degenerates into a series of incidents as everybody tries to steal the loot. There is an amusing scene near the beginning when two Dutch woman prepare a tasty pot of hot soup for their Nazi oppressors and season it with their own urine. One S.S. officer raves about how delicious the soup is. It is difficult to tell whether the filmmakers are trying to treat World War II as an adventure or just a mediocre melodrama. The final quarter-hour is spent with everybody blasting away at everybody else as the Canadian pilot and other steal the seaplane. They save the loot, well, part of it anyway. Colonel Colt snatches the Mona Lisa and the renegade Germans break into the museum where the treasure is stashed after the war and rob it. Sloppy, half-hearted direction mars what could have been an interesting thriller in the vein of a Jack Higgins style World War II actioneer. The CGI of hundreds of planes towing gliders to Holland is visually arresting, but the remainder of this lackluster war picture fails to measure up. This is an amoral W.W. II movie where comrades on each side try to kill their own. Only World War II buffs will enjoy this and that is stretching the truth. Let us say that only World War II buffs will want to see it and then be depressed by what they have seen. One interesting scene shows a British soldier dripping morphine onto a cigarette and smoking it. There is no nudity and the dialogue is bland.

shanayneigh I have to admit, I quit watching this movie after about 15 minutes or so. And this comes from a guy who sat through "Hell Ride"! It was blatantly obvious that there was no way the filmmakers were going to be able to redeem the big pile of cow dung they had churned out so far.Everything from the script, the actors, the cinematography, the editing, and not to mention the laughably bad visual effects is just deplorable.The movie starts off with one meaningless scene with ze Nazis, quickly moving on to one where we're in a plane with the jolly good Allies. From what I can recall, everyone has a different accent, beautifully topped off with an officer whose accent I really can't place (is he South African? Scottish? English? Kiwi?). Zip boom bang, we're in the middle of a firefight with (supposedly) well trained soldiers ducking behind flimsy bushes as to shield themselves from ze Nazi's machine gun fire.By this stage, the game Klondike on my ipod was far more intriguing than this movie. Then again, I'd rather watch a colonoscopy than another second of The Last Drop again.Exactly when in the process did they discover that there was no way of salvaging this shipwreck of a movie? I would've loved to be in that meeting! Avoid this movie at all costs! See Kelly's Heroes (1970) instead, if you want a solid WWII gold heist movie!

simonski33 "The Last Drop" is rather amusing. That is, if you see this movie as an WWII-spoof. An epic on a shoestring. As a Dutchie, I thought the Rumanian landscape was hilarious. Could this be Utrecht, or "de Veluwe", the Dutch National forest??? The Rumanian windmills were a sight for sore eyes...:-( What I did appreciate were the small details like "Centraal Museum Utrecht" on some trunks loaded with - stolen - artifacts. Alas, the fact that any waterplane could land long enough to load up a bunch of stolen Rembrandts and Vermeers is quite ludicrous. You only have to view Paul Verhoevens "Zwartboek " (Black Book) to know that during WWII the Germans had more or less total aircontrol over the Neverlands. For us "Dutchies" this is surely Cult-entertainment....? The name Saskia rings true, but a Dutch resistance-girl named "Benita"? Most British actors deliver their lines as if p(l)aying homage to "A bridge to far". No pun intended.. If this is supposed to be "Holland/the Neverlands", the Moon is most certainly a nice round ball of Gouda cheese....As we say in Dutch... "Krijg nou wat.." Having wrote this...the sight of Michael Madsen as "JT Colt" makes one think of French fries, drowned in mayonaise. (Pulp Friction?..:-) And he wasn't even in that movie...:-(