Review of The Last Duel (2021) by Lipino — 17 Jan 2022

This movie was ruined by a just a couple of frames, when the text "The Truth" lingered on screen before the woman's account, taking a clear stance that the woman's account was "The Truth." This invalidated the first 2/3rds of the movie. It flat out tells us, everything you just saw was false. Now for the real story. So everything you had come to understand about the characters was now deemed false. In this TRUE final 1/3rd of the movie, you discover that every man in the movie is pure evil. Matt Damon is pure evil - he rapes his wife more than Adam Driver, even raping her after she has told him she was raped. The more interesting character we had come to know - the uneducated war hero who tried to be a good husband - did not exist. Just a purely evil character. Adam Driver's character too was pure evil. It wasn't a consensual affair that turned into obsession that turned into a rape that the man convinced himself was consensual but deep-down knew was not - no, it was just a straight violent rape by a man of pure evil who enjoyed torturing the woman.

Other women in the movie laugh about hoping their husbands die in war. Their husbands are all pathetic, none of them know how to have sex, good riddance if they all die. Other male characters are also straight garbage. Ben Affleck is an evil man who has orgies with sex slaves and his wife hates everything about him.

The movie ends with Matt Damon dying in the Crusades and his wife lives happily without him. The movie tells us she never re-married, implying that's why she was happy.

So the message appears to be: Men are inherently evil. Women are inherently good. Men and women should not be together (therefore the human race should end.) Believe women. Don't believe men.

Ridley Scott said that Millennials didn't watch this because they don't want to "learn" anything. There is absolutely nothing to learn from this movie.