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Waste of time

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

THE LAST BULLET – 1995This excellent Australian television film is about the Borneo Campaign of 1945. This was the last major Allied campaign in the South West Pacific during the Second World War.The film is set during July 1945 just before the end of the Pacific conflict. The Australian Army has defeated the main Japanese forces, and are now engaged in mopping up operations. The war has come down to small unit actions in the dense Borneo jungles.A new replacement, Jason Donovan, has joined one of the platoons out searching for the remaining Japanese. At the same time, a group of 40 or so Japanese are about to launch a Banzi attack on an Australian position further inside the jungle. The attack is repelled with only two Japanese surviving.The two make their way deeper into the dense forest to hide. They come upon an old abandoned bunker. They find some old rice to chow down on. This beats the bamboo sprouts and bugs they have been living on. By this time in the war the Japanese merchant fleet had been wiped out. No supplies were getting through to bases on the Pacific outposts.Donovan's patrol is making a sweep through the forest and come up on the two Japanese, Kôji Tamaki and Kazuhiro Muroyama. Tamaki is a sniper with a scoped rifle. The two Japanese soldiers manage to ambush the Australian patrol. They wipe out the patrol except for Donovan. Muroyama is also killed in the battle.Now the two enemies spend the next two days and nights trying to kill the other. Both have sniping rifles and both are wounded in the fire exchange. There is a real game of cat and mouse here as each tries to finish the other. Grenades and rounds are exchanged till both are down to their last bullet. What happens now? This one is a down and dirty war film, showing just how quick and bloody death can come.For a film made on a television budget, this one is better than you would expect. It was well worth the 90 minutes spent watching.

Made for TV with excellent production and good acting. Jason Donovan is an actor with some good roles on his repertoire. I like sniper movies and the one-on-one sequence is great. The flashbacks right in the heat of the action does slow the pace down a bit and a little bit of obvious wartime story-telling like the intro with the new recruits in a truck sequence. The ending was a little dramatic but surprisingly feel good. I wish movie-makers would install subtitles for foreign language scenes (in this case, Japanese) automatically instead of having us figure them out. It is obvious that not everyone understands foreign dialog in an English language film yet only DVD versions have the option for subs. On my list of war films to watch.

Ah yes, the intrepid T.V. movie genre, the straight to video and the mostly forgotten classics of the small screen, but, once in a while there is always a hidden gem, a small nugget of gold, and unlike other thorns in the crown of this movie category there is often the odd surprise. And this pleasant surprise comes from Australian born (1957) T.V. and movie director Michael Pattinson, having done eleven episodes of the cult television show "Prisoner" and his movie career also includes Secrets (1992) and Ground Zero (1987) with Donald Pleasence, he's no stranger to both worlds of television and cinema.The Last Bullet is loosely based around actual events between July 8th and the 15th of August 1945, on the oil rich, and Japanese occupied, island of Borneo, and in mid 1945, it was now the turn of the Australian Allied Forces to take the lead. The Battle of Balikpapan was soon to be, at least, the last fight of the Wars history, and after the final push, the 7th Division et el had to then seek out and capture the last remaining Japanese fighters scattered in the dense jungle.Centralising not just on the plight of the soldiers, from both sides, in the heat and the dirt of the jungle The Last Bullet uses imaginative edits for the delicate flashbacks, from Peter Carrodus, to capture the moments when these poor souls were remembered as family members, lovers and friends, a time of beautiful, sensitive and fond reflection when all around them the fear of death and the capture of that last bullet is all that awaits them. The story kicks off proper when novice Stanley Brennan, played here by Jason Donovan, who excel's himself as the naïve rookie, finds more than just grit and determination when alone and out of his depth during a battle of cunning and stealth between himself and a Japanese sniper. Learning more than just survival in this terrain, this too is a moral code of honour toward ones comrades and toward the enemy, that to know your enemy is to also respect him.With an average age of 25 years, these young men were on the threshold of their lives, but into the deep, unforgiving jungle they were thrown, and in this new dimension of bravery beyond the call of duty we see a wonderful movie that gives no biased toward either side. The Last Bullet is seen from both perspectives, there is no enemy, just two factions trying to stay alive and reunite with their families. The production design here, by Japanese born (1918) Takeo Kimura is a wonderful adaptation of Borneo's killing fields, even if the movie had been filmed at Tamborine Mountain, South East Queensland, Australia and at Tochigi in Japan. The hard work put into this arena is as fitting as any standard blockbuster, while not up-to-par with the big boys, Takeo Kimura has a keen eye for realism and Michael Pattinson's work is as outstanding as it is both physically harsh and at times graphic, sentimental and heart-warming, a grand combination for a story of cultural pride and personal anguish, lovingly seen from both sides.Within an instant of the opening scene we are introduced to the beautiful accompaniment of Ms. Nerida Tyson-Chew's score, trained in both classical and contemporary genres and her Bachelor of Music (Composition) Honours Degree has put her in good stead with her collaborations with fellow Composers' Bruce Broughton, Henry Mancini and Jerry Goldsmith. Nominated for the 1996 Australian Screen Music Award for Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie, for The Last Bullet, she's done herself proud in this movies production; haunting, graceful and atmospheric. As too are the edits, by one Peter Carrodus, whose twenty-three year career, so far, brings a sharp perceptive to this hell-on-earth; exciting, interesting and hard and fast.The Last Bullet isn't about the taking part nor is it about the winning, there can never be any winners here, this movie is a fine example of how we should never forget the past, but how we can learn to forgive, and not cry havoc, and to let sleep the dogs of war. The small screen has, for once, conquered the Silver Screen, The Last Bullet, right toward its final moment, will hit you where it hurts, a battle worthy of remembrance.

I started watching this film with low expectations but what a GREAT movie this turns out to be!! It reminded me of the top class movie Enemy at the Gates (the duel between Vasili and the German sniper)although "Last Bullet" of course has a lot smaller budget!! It started out quite slow but when the sniper duel unfolds the tension is breathtaking! The great thing about this movie is that you feel for both sides of the fight, the American but the Japanese soldier too! The characters are decently developed and the climax of the film worked great for me!! I can recommend this film to EVERYONE that enjoys war movies and it's a shame that this movie is known by such a small group of people!!