“Last Man Down” Trailer Has a Lot of Firepower

The dialogue in the trailer for Last Man Down is barely intelligible. But it might not matter when the action is this intense. There's dudes getting chopped with axes, dudes getting set on fire, and lots of lots of machine guns.

Norwegian bodybuilder Daniel Stisen stars as John Wood (who I'm sure bears no relation to John Wick), an ex-soldier who retreated to the forest after a virus wiped out most of Earth's population, including his wife. When a beautiful woman (Olga Kent) arrives at his campfire claiming to have the cure in her blood, it brings a renegade army down on his quiet life. They may not speak English very clearly, but they sure can hold their own with grenades and other powerful weapons.

Last Man Down premieres on digital and VOD on Tuesday, October 19.

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About Kip Mooney

Kip Mooney
Like many film critics born during and after the 1980s, my hero is Roger Ebert. The man was already the best critic in the nation when he won the Pulitzer in 1975, but his indomitable spirit during and after his recent battle with cancer keeps me coming back to read not only his reviews but his insightful commentary on the everyday. But enough about a guy you know a lot about. I knew I was going to be a film critic—some would say a snob—in middle school, when I had to voraciously defend my position that The Royal Tenenbaums was only a million times better than Adam Sandler’s remake of Mr. Deeds. From then on, I would seek out Wes Anderson’s films and avoid Sandler’s like the plague. Still, I like to think of myself as a populist, and I’ll be just as likely to see the next superhero movie as the next Sundance sensation. The thing I most deplore in a movie is laziness. I’d much rather see movies with big ambitions try and fail than movies with no ambitions succeed at simply existing. I’m also a big advocate of fun-bad movies like The Room and most of Nicolas Cage’s work. In the past, I’ve written for The Dallas Morning News and the North Texas Daily, which I edited for a semester. I also contributed to Dallas-based Pegasus News, which in the circle of life, is now part of The Dallas Morning News, where I got my big break in 2007. Eventually, I’d love to write and talk about film full-time, but until that’s a viable career option, I work as an auditor for Wells Fargo. I hope to one day meet my hero, go to the Toronto International Film Festival, and compete on Jeopardy. Until then, I’m excited to share my love of film with you.