The Last Assassins review – shades of Blade Runner in dystopian thriller shrouded in silty-green murk

Athena Park flees futuristic marauders in a post-apocalyptic tale that looks handsome but very familiar Close to a decade after the year in which Blade Runner was set, that movie continues to be the gold standard for dystopian futures. That’s obvious from the silty-green murk and Asian signage of the broken-down metropolis where this ponderous sci-fi thriller kicks off; the last remnants of civilisation after an obscure catastrophe called the Event. With the Earth locked in a new dark age, outside the cities a noxious fog keeps everything shrouded in a permanent winter. Lucky then that protagonist the Kid (Athena Park) has the comfiest-looking knitted snood this side of Topshop. She is forced to flee when her father, head of some important clan, is waylaid, asphyxiated and run through by masked marauders demanding to know her whereabouts. Lustrously bearded vassal Nobel (Josh Bainbridge), katana at the ready, is on hand to guide her into the badlands – and hopefully into the arms of an aunt (Lora Burke) she never knew existed. Continue reading...