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LAST SENTINEL 101 Films, cert 15; On Digital

Once upon a time, actress Kate Bosworth (pictured) played Lois Lane in Superman Returns, and she could do with her superhero boyfriend flying in to get her out of a pickle in this tight-budget disaster movie.

There’s water, water, everywhere, but soon there won’t be any to drink for the four military crew stranded in the middle of the ocean after an apocalypse has apparently ravaged the planet. Or anything to eat, as fishing expeditions have come up empty recently.

The crew, includes Cassidy (Bosworth) who’s in charge of communications - only there haven’t been any since one announcing the arrival at their platform of a relief crew. Only they have never turned up, are three months late, and now everyone on the outpost is getting mighty twitchy. Some even trigger-happy.

Perhaps there’s nobody left alive out there to form a rescue crew. Just a thought that might have dawned on them. Put it this way, there doesn’t look to be much future in the relationship developing between Cassidy and Sully (Lucien Laviscount), the guy who’s finding it tough landing any fish.

In charge is grumpy Henrichs (Thomas Kretschmann) and he won’t countenance any plan to abandon the platform saying they can’t leave their post until replacements arrive. As they’ll soon starve to death this might not be the brightest idea. Growing discontent suggests hothead Baines (Martin McCann) the chief engineer might successfully launch a mutiny. But, is he to be trusted, or does he have a dark secret? A little less conversation and a little more action could have saved the film. Even without Superman’s intervention.

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