Director M. Night Shyamalan has made a career out of devising intriguing mysteries that have no satisfying explanation or conclusion. The Last House takes that formula and runs with it.
Directed by Louis Leterrier (Now You See Me, Fast X) and headlined by last year’s Best Actor Oscar nominee Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent)and Greta Lee (Past Lives), this Netflix feature (August 7) is a genre throwaway whose set-up is tantalizing and whose pay-off is goofy—though that doesn’t negate its minor cheesy charms. Intermittently gripping if less than totally coherent, it’s a glossy B-movie that doesn’t bore but also never truly thrills.
In a neighborhood that’s eventually revealed to be a suburb of Seattle, Jason (Moura) finishes fishing at a local dock and returns to the home he shares with wife Ann (Greta Lee), son Graham (Noah Alexander Sosnowski), and daughter Ruth (Riley Chung). As he arrives, a storm picks up steam, and the narrator intones that “the day the rain came, we learned we were not alone.”
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