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Last Seen at Angkor

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It's hard to find a movie that looks like it was truly made on the outside of the Hollywood churn factory. It may be rough in places, but that's also what's exciting about it. If you listen to the commentary track, you'll hear some fascinating stories about how they put this film together, like using an $8 tripod, or shooting in different countries within the same scene, all sorts of anecdotes that remind me of Orson Welles putting his later films together. Sometimes it's a little slow, but it makes up for it with the totally unexpected twist at the end. It was shot in countries like Cambodia and Laos and the scenery is great!

Words cannot express how amateurish and awful this production was. I've seen middle-school talent shows that had higher production values than this...where does one begin???

Having come back from an amazing month-long excursion to SE Asia in January of 2008 myself, I was excited to learn of this film and eagerly ordered it. The strange yet curiously uninvolving plot focuses on a high school teacher who leaves the US to go back to Cambodia in search of his missing wife, who was suposedly kidnapped on a previous trip a few months ago. Why he wouldn't get the state department involved is never brought up. Why his wife's relatives and friends are not ever curious as to her disappearance is also never covered, due to lazy scriptwriting. The star of the film is also the director and he does a very bad job in conveying a supposedly "distraught" man trying to find his wife "at any cost." There are VERY BRIEF scenes in Angkor Wat - most of the shots look to be in some ugly alleys that could have been filmed in any SE Asian country. The only shots we see of temples are long shots that look to be filmed "guerilla style" at best.

The "twist" at the end is not so interesting and leaves you with a sick feeling in your gut - not in a good way either. Maybe it's from having spent money on being dumb enough to buy this film. I was happy to toss this in the garbage where it belongs.