The Last Duel

Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: October 15, 2021

7.3	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 275 Ratings

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lipinoJan 17, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This movie was ruined by a just a couple of frames, when the text "The Truth" lingered on screen before the woman's account, taking a clear stance that the woman's account was "The Truth." This invalidated the first 2/3rds of the movie. It flat out tells us, everything you just saw was false. Now for the real story. So everything you had come to understand about the characters was now deemed false. In this TRUE final 1/3rd of the movie, you discover that every man in the movie is pure evil. Matt Damon is pure evil - he rapes his wife more than Adam Driver, even raping her after she has told him she was raped. The more interesting character we had come to know - the uneducated war hero who tried to be a good husband - did not exist. Just a purely evil character. Adam Driver's character too was pure evil. It wasn't a consensual affair that turned into obsession that turned into a rape that the man convinced himself was consensual but deep-down knew was not - no, it was just a straight violent rape by a man of pure evil who enjoyed torturing the woman.

Other women in the movie laugh about hoping their husbands die in war. Their husbands are all pathetic, none of them know how to have sex, good riddance if they all die. Other male characters are also straight garbage. Ben Affleck is an evil man who has orgies with sex slaves and his wife hates everything about him.

The movie ends with Matt Damon dying in the Crusades and his wife lives happily without him. The movie tells us she never re-married, implying that's why she was happy.

So the message appears to be: Men are inherently evil. Women are inherently good. Men and women should not be together (therefore the human race should end.) Believe women. Don't believe men.

Ridley Scott said that Millennials didn't watch this because they don't want to "learn" anything. There is absolutely nothing to learn from this movie.… Expand

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JimiJonsOct 15, 2021

This is an extremely disappointing outing from Ridley Scott. The set pieces, cinematography, and general aesthetic would all necessarily be great, save for Matt Damon's redneck mullet and Ben Affleck's platinum blonde, 90's boy-band haircut,This is an extremely disappointing outing from Ridley Scott. The set pieces, cinematography, and general aesthetic would all necessarily be great, save for Matt Damon's redneck mullet and Ben Affleck's platinum blonde, 90's boy-band haircut, both looks fitting to the awkward, silly acting portrayed by two American Hollywood stars forcing antiquated French antagonists. Adam Driver and Jodie Comer do much better, offering complexity in their performances despite restrictive and blindingly singular dialogue.

The writing and plot lack all subtlety, outright prescribing fictionalized guilt in the central conflict of the story halfway through the film and tossing out any remote flirtation with moral ambiguity and nuance, two elements that thoroughly pervade the actual circumstances surrounding the real-life 14th century case of the rape of Marguerite de Carrouges, and which would have made the film a thousand times better.

The effect of a multiple-perspective storytelling technique is rendered entirely moot by a text transition screen which literally denotes one perspective, Marguerite's, as "the truth," ironically the single perspective which has the least basis in reality or history, being entirely fictionalized given the lack of a single spoken word or recorded account from Marguerite in the entire real-life case. Worst of all, in an overzealous attempt to decry toxic masculinity and rape culture in a way that resonates with modern #metoo audiences, the writers alter real medieval judicial systems and gender norms and invent make believe ones (i.e. every single scene invoking "rape and pleasure" dialogue) to unnecessarily make those already-harsh times seem far worse and far more uncomfortable in every way. Does any normal, healthy human being want to watch the same long, traumatizing, minutely detailed, over-dramatic rape scene multiple times in the course of a single film? The idea that medieval times were bad for men, worse for women, does not need to be ham-fisted into a film through factual inaccuracies and a visual-auditory simulation of PTSD.

This is a film designed to evoke disgust and anger, not thoughtfulness and conversation. Every male character with any semblance of power is flawed and evil scum, abusing and oppressing every female, regardless of status (save for one internalized-misogynistic step-mother), who are perfect, flawless, and submissive victims. This singularly dystopian vision of the feminist nightmare has, fortunately for reality, never existed. In an utter and cowardly acquiescence to the socio-politico climate of modern Hollywood and an abject disdain for actual history and the culture of Medieval Europe, Damon, Affleck, Nicole Holofcener, and Ridley deliver an entirely modern tale with a distastefully masqueraded 14th-century backdrop that demonizes every man and victimizes every woman.… Expand

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Yeezus_Is_King_Oct 17, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Beautifully shot, with quick-but-calculated action sequences (which are only enhanced by the wonderful acting). However, “The Last Duel”, brings nothing new to the real-life case other than lies and speculation.… Expand

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CutlosoDec 11, 2021

Ah.... the time period has changed, but the message is still the same.

Men are rapists. All of them. It does not matter when or where. Men are evil, men are rapists. It is a good thing this monstruosity bombed. It is an awful film. TooAh.... the time period has changed, but the message is still the same.

Men are rapists. All of them. It does not matter when or where. Men are evil, men are rapists.

It is a good thing this monstruosity bombed. It is an awful film. Too long, too violent with too much violent sex. But it somehow shows the awful mindset of Hollywood. What is the point of making a film about rape? Only the woke crowd can see value in it. Do we need it? Who needs it?

It also shows that Riddley Scott has seen better days. Lately the guy has only made garbage.

Any regular person, with some good old sense, see "The Last Duel" as it is: a cheap mix of violence and porn with actors wearing stupid costumes.… Expand

5 of 10 users found this helpful55

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MetacriticOnurNov 29, 2021

bad
[ bad ]

adjective, worse, worst;(Slang) bad·der, bad·dest for 36.
not good in any manner or degree.

3 of 6 users found this helpful33

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thedaarkbattyNov 1, 2021

Super boring. Basically nothing happens in the movies besides people "talking" to each other. Just don't bother with this nonsense.

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TrunkerDec 11, 2021

1. The script is a disaster
2. A poor man version of Rashomon.
3. It's just a waste of talents of an amazing cast. Simply awful.

2 of 8 users found this helpful26

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stratos_auDec 14, 2021

its definitely not a bad movie, the acting is great , the production values are awesome. However, I struggled a bit with some of the key scenes that at some point the movie feels like its repeating itself from a slightly different angle, butits definitely not a bad movie, the acting is great , the production values are awesome. However, I struggled a bit with some of the key scenes that at some point the movie feels like its repeating itself from a slightly different angle, but those differences are very very subtle and it feels that its just rehashing the same shot. Wont reveal one of key events of the movie but THAT specific scene, I dont think that should have been repeated twice if there was no really a different perspective , its hard to watch and doesn't really add much for watching it twice. Now I feel that the ending tries to tell a different story al together and leaves it to your interpretation on what really happened. its on ok movie it could have been best with better elaborated plot twists.… Expand

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msv-777Jan 24, 2022

It was the worst movie made by Ridley Scott. The script was a disaster. The acting performance was really bad. I really do not know what this movie had that got these scores. Famous actors and action scenes probably caused these scores. WasIt was the worst movie made by Ridley Scott. The script was a disaster. The acting performance was really bad. I really do not know what this movie had that got these scores. Famous actors and action scenes probably caused these scores. Was it the main story or not? Scott could not even tell us what his purpose in making the film was and what he wanted to convey to us.The acting performance was almost catastrophic, with the exception of Adam Driver and Jodie Comer, who had an above-average performance, which I think is a great cast that could have survived despite the hustle and bustle and the catastrophe. The script shows this acting performance. The filming was not good at all. For example, in the duel sequence, we did not understand where Margaret was standing… Expand

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