The Last Seven Review

Seven Londoners wake up, memories wiped and streets deserted. Where are they? Who are they? And, as a malevolent force starts picking them off one by one, how long can they survive? Styled like a Guy Ritchie mystery (with geezer casting to match), Imran Naqvi’s debut thriller starts out gripping and ends as a modest Twilight Zone episode. Naqvi was a Steadicam operator, so doomy visuals and screeching flashbacks are precision-made. But a movie like this is all about the last reel pay-off and, while it doesn’t quite have empty pockets, the revelation doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. Variable performances swing between the solid (Sebastian Street) and the incredibly soggy (Simon Phillips).