Last Seen Alive

Last Seen Alive

After Will Spann's wife suddenly vanishes at a gas station, his desperate search to find her leads him down a dark path that forces him to run from authorities and take the law into his own hands.

  • Released:
  • Runtime: 120 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Thrillers
  • Stars: Gerard Butler, Jaimie Alexander, Dani Deetté, Russell Hornsby, Aleks Alifirenko Jr., Emily Brinks, Robert Walker Branchaud, Rachel Trautmann, Cindy Hogan, Matthew R. Staley, David Kallaway, Alphonso A'Qen-Aten Jackson, Jordan Salloum, Brice Anthony Heller, Ethan Embry, Bruce Altman, Michael Irby, Chip Lane, Billy Burns, Robin Fletcher, David Gurule, Samantha Lawless, Christie McLendon, Alexandra Miles, David Perez
  • Director: Brian Goodman
 Comments
  • norbert-plan-618-715813 - 7 May 2024
    Solid and efficient Gerard Butler movie
    Good B-movie on a common theme. Gerard Butler brings his wife home to his parents. They are about to separate. They stop at a gas station. She disappears. No one has noticed. The police don't believe him, even suspect him. He looks for her. But he finds himself on the run so he can look for his wife himself. It's been done many times before. This is a good, simple B-movie, where the suspense and our hero have the merit of showing us the landscape and a community of outlaws, i.e. People who live outside the system. Gerard Butler excels in this kind of character, stubborn, resilient, not all white, but persevering. The actor's charisma does the rest, and the viewer, very empathetic with him, follows this with concentration. The film is about the turpitude of our main character, not about piling on action sequences, chases or shoot-outs. It's a fine piece of series work that celebrates Gerard Butler's talent.
  • deadbull-95171 - 30 December 2023
    A man for our times
    Reprising chunks of the vanishing (1988), and Breakdown (1997) but with the funky sauce that a Gerald Butler movie brings to-it, the violence, the brutal abrupt editing and transitions, in the tradition of 300, Law Abiding Citizen, Copshop, In Yer Face stuff; Consider how the movie opens, with a punch to the face in the back of a car, ....and another wife kidnap scenario unfolds.

    This pleasant feature finds its tone and is distinguished and clarified in the "second act", where Gerald searches for his wife, abducted from a convenience store (the Vanishing), hidden in a filthy backwoods meth lab complex, the place he must single-handedly battle 300 evil drug dealers and slimeball lab techs, a few random psychotics and zoned customers, presided over by the new Persian Emperor, "Frank."

    During this great battle, the soundtrack becomes Wagnerian, opressive, relentlessly crashing and booming. And thus, in the end, despite being misled that his wife is in a predug pit (the vanishing again), (you don't fall for it for a moment), as Gerald's intuition is a far sharper tool then anything the police have, and like a fine hound, he scents her out and the great reunion occurs. Instantly, we are smothered with violins and cellos. We are commanded; our hearts must break.

    In extremis, Gerald has never looked so much like Daniel Baldwin, especially the facial expressions, and if one wanted to crib gestures, it's harder to imagine a more obscure source.

    All this fun is corroborated; Nothing less then that great oracular organ of the people, YouTube, lets us know that snatching kids, or anyone that looks vulnerable, has become something of a national pastime for the disenfranchised, or those with special franchises, empowered by taboo self-entitlement claims, and lots of poetic liscense.

    I enjoy these Gerald Butler fables. The fabulists Grimm and Aesop were also very violent and strange, but their work preceded the magic of the great Glock.
  • patherwill - 26 July 2023
    Good, fast moving film
    First, to me it made a real change to see Gerard Butler having a bit of the "butt end of the stick" instead of the story being Gerard Butler saves the World as many are. I thought the plot was well put together, well acted and believeable. It must have been pretty good because I was quite tense at times wondering if Butler was going to survive so much so that I re-started nail biting which I had stopped! Jaimie alexander played the wandering wife and she really seemed to have some weird idiosyncrasies because she appeared to have a pretty comfortable lifestyle but still wanted more It was a pretty even paced film throughout.
  • sarisled-05918 - 27 December 2022
    Cringefest
    This movie made me cringe so much. I watched it a second time just for the cringe. Guess I am a cringejunkie or something.

    The execution, the plot the story the acting the dialouge the scenery it all blends in to one really awkard embarrassing cringefest gone havoc. You know like on a party and everyone is dancing but suddenly someone starts bickering and you feel embarrased on behalf of those someone but then someone other than that someone who is bickering gets involved and people start taking sides and it gets all wind up but the remaining people who refuse to ruin their own evening leaves and noone notices that the party is over until they stop bickering and then scratch their head like "where are everyone" wondering how this happend.

    You dont know that? Ohhh my bad, neither do I, but this is that kind of a movie where you have seen it before and dont know about it but you cringe just thinking about it.

    No?

    Too many gave this movie a good review but its so bad and lousy you cant even comprehend. I truly believe Gerard Butler wouldnt make a movie like this if he wasnt in financial difficulties. The movie is not just bad as in bad , its so lousy like pathetic. The wife actress should never act again. I dont know who she is but I will find out only to be able to avoid any other movie she participates in. The director choosing her as the second lead in the movie should tell you this is not going to be good.

    Gerard will get a second chance cause I am hoping for a success with the den of thieves 2, that should be released 2023. I really hope he never does anything like this again. Its beneath him if you ask me.
  • robwvu - 26 October 2022
    Underrated.....
    I'm tired of all the negativity with movies. You people aren't critics, you're brain dead. This was a really good movie. I enjoyed it. To all the haters that says straight forward plot, Blah Blah Blah... Every Marvel, DC comic, James Bond, Jurassic Park, Disney, Sony, Star Wars and every other franchise etc. Are all pretty much straight forward plot movies. Wake up. Yes it's kind of a straight forward plot line but an enjoyable one. They could've thrown an extra twist in there and made it a few minutes longer but all in all it's underrated. Gerald Butler is a great actor to. I'd definitely watch it again.
  • cameronstiffler - 16 October 2022
    Is Gerard Butler the New Bruce Willis?
    Maybe Nicolas Cage would be a better comparison. The point is, the last couple movies I've seen with him are pretty bad as of the release date of this one. Don't get me wrong. I like a lot of Gerard Butler's movies, but this film isn't really worth watching.

    There are a couple of other movies with the same plot that are made very well. Try watching Breakdown(Kurt Russel, 1987) if you are interested in this sort of plot and want to spend your recreational time wisely.

    A couple more notable films with the same sort of plot are: The Next Three Days(Russell Crowe, 2010) The Vanishing(Kiefer Sutherland and Jeff Bridges, 1993)