A brooding Western in search of a jolt of energy, Tim Sutton’s “The Last Son” is a morose slog through the American West, as Sam Worthington’s Issac Lemay hunts down his kin in an effort to stave off an Ingenious prophecy that he will be killed by one of them.
Apparently not understanding the difference between prophecy and prediction — a difference that a Native woman, ironically enough, has to spell out for him — he roams through towns, hunting down every child that he fathered, which, given his propensity for prostitutes, is a surprising amount.Continue reading ‘The Last Son’ With Sam Worthington & Machine Gun Kelly Is An Unrelentingly Grim Western [Review] at The Playlist.
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