Last Cab to Darwin

2015

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Romance

16
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 89% · 35 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 4188 4.2K

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Plot summary

Rex is a loner, and when he's told he doesn't have long to live, he embarks on an epic drive through the Australian outback from Broken Hill to Darwin to die on his own terms; but his journey reveals to him that before you can end your life, you have to live it, and to live it, you've got to share it.


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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Reno-Rangan 7 / 10

Some discoveries come at the last hours of the life.

When a movie is based on the play, setting wise it will be a tight narration. But the advantage is, movies can expand its screenplay in the natural world where stage plays has a limitation with the fake backgrounds. And obviously movies can reach any corner of the earth in the todays digital world while plays are for a limited live audience. So I think that is how this play turned into a motion picture, importantly, it was funded by the government and all the above it won a couple of Australian Academy Awards.

It was a cancer themed thin comedy-drama with a little road adventure in the backdrop. A story that follows a 70-year-old cab driver Rex from Broken Hill. He has never been outside his town until he finds he has a cancer, so he takes a 3000 kilometer drive to Darwin looking for a doctor who can help him with his suffering. At the dusk hours of his life, he encounters some strangers and many stuffs for the first time. So this film is all about his final and best experience in the end of the life journey.

I like sentimental films, I chose it because I haven't felt the emotions through my heart for a movie in the recent time. I expected it to fulfill my desire, but it only fell short. To me it was a decent movie in the first half, but it got better in the next half. The opening was kind of slow and dry, the cast was totally unfamiliar to me. I needed time to get used to a sudden change of accent after watching so many Hollywood flicks. Because you know we don't watch Aussie movies everyday and so the style of comedies differs with the different region.

"You want everything to be black and white, but it's not. It's gray."

The best thing ever happened was the introduction of the characters Tilly and Julie. One is an aboriginal and the other is a British who joins Rex, the Aussie. They are the main source for the story to grow in the right direction. Because of them the narration had a subplot to focus their perspectives as well. Without them definitely it would have been a worthless flick.

The end was not at its best. It hat many options, but they decided to finish it in an uncertain manner. Since it was a road movie, I also anticipated exhibition of beautiful Australian landscapes, that never came. I understand they don't want distraction from the main plot, because this was one of those films that took time for the characters to settle down. Even though it approaches the conclusion, the characters had kept deepening in its development.

My upset with the movie was, it was a quite different from the usual cancer films. Precisely to say, it was very weak in the exhibition of character feelings. Certainly it won't make you weep. Just like one of the lines at the beginning that says 'everyone gets cancer', the movie was too casual like this is a regular thing. But the scenario where the story sets in and takes us with it was exceptional. I have a hesitation to recommend it, but it is a good movie if you're okay with the thing I expressed which are lacking.

6½/10

Reviewed by nogodnomasters 8 / 10

IF WISHES WERE HORSES BEGGARS WOULD RIDE

Rex (Michael Canton) is a old cab driver who discovers they "didn't get it all." He is dying from cancer when he discovers a doctor in remote Darwin has a legal suicide machine. Rex has friends, but no family. He travels to Darwin to use the untested machine and picks up a couple of people along the way who he touches and they assist him.

Based on a play by the same name, the story touches you as we see friends become family.

Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.

Reviewed by paulclaassen 8 / 10

Superb cast, great story.

This reminded me so much of Australian road movie 'Spider and Rose' from 1994, which happens to be one of my favorite films. I must say, I enjoyed this film just as much. The acting was superb, especially Michael Caton as Rex. The film was beautifully shot with great cinematography. I loved every moment of this film - a real feel-good sad movie!!

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