Last Night

Last Night (1998)
As mentioned in earlier posts, I am fascinated with the apocalyptic and that’s what drew me to this movie.  It’s been on my list for years, but it only just became available through streaming Netflix in the past few months. 
Netflix description:

What do you do when you have six hours to live? Last Night chronicles a small group of people whose lives intersect as a nameless apocalypse descends on them. A woman (Sandra Oh) tries to locate her husband to fulfill a suicide pact, while a young man (Callum Keith Rennie) has a rendezvous with a former high school teacher.

Unfortunately, they don’t ever give any indication whatsoever about the cause of the apocalypse!  All the viewer knows is that the world will end at midnight.  From context clues I inferred that the sun was exploding or a large meteor was headed towards the earth or something of that sort.
The apocalypse was clearly just a backdrop for a movie that really wanted to focus on the craziness of human relationships, family, sex, and timing. It was a bit too contemplative for an end of the world film.  That said, one shot near the end with two characters holding a gun to each other’s head was well done and slightly impacting.  Otherwise it was only mildly engaging visually.
There was also one line from the preview (and the film) that I found compelling.  The same two characters mentioned above were trying to quickly get to know each other in the last hour of the world.  She tries to speed the process by saying to him, “tell me something to make me love you.”  Now there’s an interesting question.  What would you say?