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Started great. Loved that they used so much can footage taken by crew and passengers. But it just abruptly ends. I thought it was just the first episode as well which would've made sense. But that doesn't seem to be the case. We only got a few perspectives and there is so much more to this story. I don't understand why this was released when it could've been excellent. Good idea though. I'm sure more will come out soon.

This is one of the most frightening things I have seen on television in a very long time. I almost regret watching it, that's how uncomfortable it's left me feeling. If I had been on that boat I probably would have lost my mind. The people who were profiled, although at times seemed stressed and a little emotional, appeared to be pretty calm and level headed throughout the entire ordeal. My takeaway from this one - count your blessings and keep washing your hands.

The start was promising, the development failed The interesting contrast is between passengers, which most don't have a clue of humility and love in a bubble: then you have the crew.

For them or was cramped windowless spaces, sharing with sick peers, working for the passengers and not being tested or quarantined as the passengers There are unfortunate comments regrading comfort, complaints about frozen food, being bored, the crew nor being as friendly, and using face masks - in the middle of a pandemic (The passengers obviously) So it presents the real struggle, fear and injustice from the crew vs the selfish complaints, superficial remarks and self centered world of passenger (one just loved the kimono type pijama she was wearing at the hospital in Japan as she tested positive)

This could have had more depth by having more diversity among the passengers and crew Filtering the comments to balance the end results, more interest in the emotional experience and effects rather than then daily domestic circumstances.

It's wasn't challenging for the "cast" nor the audience, and remains as a description of events without covering more important topics: humanity, fragility, fears, hopes, consciousness or responsibility.

It is a great comedy showing how americans are drama princesses and it all about their emotions that counts.

The ship guests were treated very well in my opinion. They just had longer vacation. The crew members not so much.

At this moment, this is just rubbish. It's the same exact thing all of us went through. The only good thing about it is that it's not a hit piece against president Trump, and does point out the fraud that Fauci is, perhaps without intention.

"The Last Cruise" is a 40-minute HBO production for the small screen from 2021 and this is not a movie dealing with the magnificent Tom Cruise, but instead the focus is on the corona virus during those days where it all began back in 2020. The director and producer is Hannah Olsen and the writer is Lizzie Presser and for both it is a contender for most known work at this point. It runs for 40 minutes, so it is still a short film, but a pretty long one for that. I guess like with many HBO short documentary productions the goal is to get this one to the Oscars, but here things did not really work out from that perspective. The biggest success awards-wise was apparently a nomination with the documentary critics choice folks. However, it was probably seen by more people than many Oscar-nominated documentary shorts in fact. Of course, being an American production helped here, even if it is not super easy these days anymore to get a hand on the film. To sum it up quickly, you can say that this film is about a cruise and the people on it when the corona virus showed up on their ship and we find out how the numbers were constantly increasing. At the beginning, there was one person that got tested positive or two, then it's ten, another ten, sixty or so and finally hundreds eventually. So as there was a lot of isolation and quarantine going on, a great deal of the film is what the travelers were recording themselves during this fateful trip that went much longer than they expected, even if not for the right reasons. The saddest moment is maybe when we find out that somebody died from the virus and in the end it was a double-digit amount of people as we are told. Another sad moment was when a couple is separated because one of them has the virus and the other does not.

Here and there, there were also some exaggerations like how passengers talked about the possibility of the government deciding to sink the ship and drown everybody on it and that was a bit too much pseudo drama honestly. It was more interesting to see the healthy American passengers choosing to board an American military plane that would fly them home. Definitely a voyage you will remember for the rest of your life, but a good thing then when one of the positive passengers said that this is not gonna ruin the fun she has when it comes to going on cruises and the next travel will certainly happen soon. So she was positive in two ways you could say. A good and not so good. This documentary is pretty much exactly what you could expect when reading the two lines of summary what it is all about. There were some interesting moments like when they said that back then they did not know yet that people could be without symptoms and still carry the virus in them. Or everything we saw about the crew was nice too. They of course had their very own role in all this. Nonetheless, I must say that overall the documentary did not feel interesting or relevant enough to me for a positive recommendation here. It was almost more interesting to find out through words being shown on the screen what was happening globally and how for example the virus at that point was not a factor at all in America. Even Dr. Fauci said so. Literally. And this is also not the cruise that was the one thing that carried the virus from Asia into the world. It is just one of many pieces of the puzzle you can say and as such you are not missing out on too much if you decide to skip the watch here. Admittedly, it is also never on failure territory. But I give "The Last Cruise" a thumbs-down. Don't like the pseudo-dramatic title here either to be honest, but I am not surprised at all that such a film got made by the (mostly) liberal broadcaster HBO.