This film is a huge mess. It's a thriller with no thrills. Not much happens, Hathaway smokes cigarettes, yells at people on the phone and sometimes goes to an airport. The dialogue is tiresome and nonsensical, everyone talks in that cliched movie way through metaphor and long monologues. Editing is an absolute disaster, I couldn’t follow any of it, not because it’s challenging or anything, it’s just incoherent and dull. The movie doesn’t even try to explain any of the events going on. The characters come and go, keep talking and the viewer is left with zero clue as to what their contribution was. The acting is okay, nothing special though. Anne Hathaway tries way to hard to show a sense of pain and Ben Affleck looks like 😐 during nearly every scene.

The last thing I ever wanted was this. With a good cast and director, I expected something better. Sadly, this film is a jumbled mess, with lapses in story that leave plot threads dangling. A shame.

What a mess. There was a good story in there somewhere, they just didn’t have a fuckin’ clue how to tell it.

From Netflix comes the dull and monotonous political thriller The Last Thing He Wanted. The story follows a journalist during the 1984 presidential campaign who quits the campaign in order to care for her ailing father, and in so doing discovers that he was involved in some nefarious dealings that she begins to investigate. Starring Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck, Rosie Perez, and Willem Dafoe, the film has a pretty good cast; however, Hathaway comes off as cold and unlikable – making it hard to sympathize with her. And the plot is rather messy and lacks direction. The Last Thing He Wanted has a few intense and suspenseful moments, but it never really amounts to anything.

Good acting by Anne Hathaway but besides that the movie is a complete mess and hard to follow.