Last Seen Alive (2022)

Last Seen Alive (2022)

 3/10

Starring

Gerald Butler

Jamie Alexander

 

Directed by Brian Goodman

 

It’s a wannabe movie mashup of almost every other movie you’ve seen that has to do with some kind of kidnapping. It’s like they took these movies that aren’t worth seeing in a store and decided that 2022 was the year to dump them on movie lovers.

First thing to note about this movie is the chemistry that seems to be lacking in everyone. The whole flashback scenes, which were meant to show us the history and chemistry between the couple, only ended up being a nuisance. The movie does have one thing, though: everything in it happens fast, just like a magician trying sleight of hand to make you think something is happening with one hand, while fooling you with the other. Then he delivers a trick you already know how to do, and you can think of many ways he could have done it better.

The movie is about a couple going through some challenges because of infidelity. They are Will (Gerard Butler) and Lisa (Jaimie Alexander). While the movie tries to make you think this has something to do with the story, Lisa gets kidnapped while the two are trying to rekindle their marriage by taking a road trip to her hometown. Lisa goes to the gas station when they make a stop and never returns.
Will calls the cops, and they start a search, but Will discovers that the gas station had a camera which would have captured everything. After roughing up the owner, he takes the DVR to the police station, and they view it. They see Lisa getting kidnapped by someone she knew.
Will uses the information about who the person was to try and track Lisa while the cops also do the same, everyone trying to save Lisa.

This movie is not one I think anyone should be bothered about seeing. It made no impact on my Sunday viewing and would have been better if I never knew it existed.
The story and scenes don’t gel, and everyone played a role so independently of one another that when the movie tries to bring them all together in the end, it’s just impossible.
The whole idea of taking bits and pieces from every movie and trying to reshape them to suit its own story was also annoying. And it turned out that the characters who had little to do with the main storyline seemed to put down the best performances, while the well-paid ones did nothing to make this movie memorable.