Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

An Exercise In Nonsense

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

This is one lesser known and underappreciated Roger Corman's classic. The ending is kind off silly, but rest of the film is actually good. The story is intriguing - two men and one woman survive mysterious apocalypse. Screenplay is quite well drawn out (if you consider the fact that they started shooting with unfinished script), dialogue quite snappy and interesting, and all the three main characters are actually someone you care about. The characters are multi layered, as none of them are clearly a bad guy, they all have some morals, principles, and very valid points in arguments. Most of this is thanks to the great talents of screenwriter Robert Towne (who also played Martin Joyce as Edward Wain and went on to win an OSCAR for 'Chinatown'). Acting by Betsy Jones-Moreland and Anthony Carbone is fantastic and very naturalistic. Robert Towne (or Edward Wain) on the other hand is not painfully bad, but definitely he's not mach for these two. Occasionally it made me wonder - have Robert Towne ever given acting lessons to Nicolas Cage?Anyway, 'Last Woman on Earth' is much better movie than one can expect from its ratings, and it is much thoughtful movie than one can expect from such low budget B-grade disaster movie.

"Last Woman on Earth" shows what happens as a romantic triangle plays out during an "end of the world" type of story. Harold Gern (Antony Carbone) is a shady banker enjoying the sights and sounds of Puerto Rico. Tagging along are his sexy young wife Evelyn (Betsy Jones- Moreland) and his loyal attorney Martin Joyce (future Oscar winning screenwriter Robert Towne, acting under the pseudonym Edward Wain). After a scuba diving excursion, they come out of the sea to find that some mysterious disaster has eliminated almost every living thing in sight. Harold is given to macho "this is how it's gonna be" proclamations, while Martin, who realizes that he's falling for Evelyn, acts as a voice of reason.Towne also wrote the screenplay for this one, his first. Since he worked slowly (according to producer & director Roger Corman), his script was unfinished by the time of filming. So, in order to ensure that the screenwriter could be on set regularly, Corman convinced Towne to co-star in the film. Corman had come to Puerto Rico partly to take in the beauty of the surroundings, but largely due to "certain tax laws". By the time he and his crew left the country, they had not one film under their belt, but three: this one, "Creature from the Haunted Sea" (a remake of "Naked Paradise"), and "Battle of Blood Island".A great film this is not, but it's a passably engrossing one, thanks to some wonderful atmosphere (Corman actually ponied up the dough to shoot it in color) and Townes' somewhat philosophical tale. There is some decent dialogue, good music by Ronald Stein, and effective cinematography by Jacques R. Marquette. The three cast members are reasonably good. Towne fares well enough, despite not being a professional actor.The ending is abrupt, and may not be to all viewers' satisfaction. Still, Corman and Towne deserve some credit for tackling the theme of the hostility and violence ingrained in mankind, on a rather meagre budget.Six out of 10.

well it's the end of the world and this time Vincent Price isn't the last one standing,, this time it's about a woman... two guys are left.. one is the husband the other the lawyer. they all go scuba diving,, somewhere and when they come out of the water sooner or later they realize that their isn't anybody left.... anywhere they decide to head north after much arguing,, the woman falls for the other man because her husband isn't really treating her very well,, so the two head north and the husband eventually get's his trucked started and decides to follow,, he soon catches up, and well the battle is on to see who actually will end up with the woman in the end of the movie,, you will just have to watch and see for yourself. this isn't a bad movie by any means,, just slow and not much on the action,, and only the three characters for the whole movie,, I thought that there should have been more characters in the movie to help move it along.

Last Woman on Earth is a well-written post- apocalyptic science fiction, almost ruined by bad direction. The film was written by Robert Towne, who seemed to write Roger Corman's best movies. It had a very interesting conflict between the last two men on Earth fighting over the last woman. It had a some very tense scenes, with some dark humour sprinkled in. The characters, however, required very good actors to play their roles, and the acting, to be honest, sucked. The two male leads talked in an annoying Keanu Reeves-style monotone, and while the female lead was a little better, she's barely given anything to do. That, along with some weird editing choices, Corman's trademark padding, and the fact that the movie could've been way creepier, this just ended up a mildly entertaining b-movie.Roger Corman fans might find some enjoyment in this, just don't be expecting something like A Bucket of Blood.