The Last Duel

2021 • 152 minutter

Om denne film

Jodie Comer leverer en blændende præstation i dette tankevækkende drama, som udspiller sig i det brutale miljø i Frankrig i det 14. århundrede, og som er skabt af den visionære instruktør Ridley Scott. Filmen, som er baseret på sande begivenheder, handler om den anklage om brutal voldtægt Marguerite de Carrouges (Comer) fremsætter mod Jacques le Gris (Adam Driver), hendes mand, ridderen Jean de Carrouges' (Matt Damon) ven. For at forsvare sin ære og bevise sin kones påstand, udfordrer de Carrouges le Gris til en kamp til døden. Nu er alle tres liv sat på spil i et samfund, hvor det påstås, at denne gruopvækkende duel vil blive afgjort af Gud. Desuden vil Marguerite blive henrettet, hvis de Carrouges dør i denne kamp. I filmen medvirker også Ben Affleck som le Gris' intrigante allierede, grev d'Alençon. Denne gribende, filmiske historie er baseret på Eric Jagers bog "The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France". THE LAST DUEL er en medrivende, spændende fortælling om en modig kvinde, som er villig til at risikere livet i jagten på sandheden.

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A glorious film with breathtaking set pieces, a powerful true story told well and epic moments. As the film plays over and over it does it in a fine sense, and the battpe scenes, drama, and The Last Duel in the film itself are all wonders. 4 to 4 and a half out of 5 all in all. I go with that rating for it, it fits a bit due to maybe certain silliness in the film and I think I just got to understand some of it a bit more or something.

I found this to be an extremely bad movie. I do not understand the praise. This is the most boring repetitious way I can think of to tell this story. They all lead to the exact same perception so the need to tell it like this just drags it out to a point I was wishing for my internet to go out so I did not have to sit through another 30 minute version of the exact same events. The actual dual ended up to be very well done, so I gave it 2 stars instead of 1 for the great 10 minute fight.

Last Duel feels very much like a harkening back to the days of Braveheart and other epics of the 90's and early 2000's. Big set pieces, spanning landscapes, violence... very nice to experience this in the modern era. The base material isn't as profound as something like a Braveheart or a Gladiator, but the execution with the source material is right up there... especially Adam Driver.