None Left Standing is the second film from the Tomb of Terrors box set filmed in the "small town" (as it's referred to in Capture the Flag) of Phoenix, Arizona. It attempts to be a deep film about creative obsession and how it blurs reality or something but just comes off as pretentious, unpleasant, overlong, talky and pointless. Profanity is peppered throughout to "heighten" the "intensity" of every scene. Few scenes are actually intense but the filmmaker's try to make them that way anyways like watching a janitor have a conversation. Jace Armstrong as Jon plays the leader of a group of three young men trying to make an artistic statement. He looks like a combination of Fred Durst, Olaf Ittenbach and Brad from Home Improvement, in other words he has an extremely punch-able face. He tries to portray his character as a force of nature but he's more of a light drizzle than a raging monsoon. I don't buy his character as having an overwhelming willpower that can lead others to do anything including murder, he just comes off as an overbearing, pretentious, annoying knob.
The whole motivation for the character's actions in the film is a "small town" college short film festival, one they are so desperate to win that they'll resort to going to the "inner sector" (the Southwest's name for the ghetto?) to film a drug deal turned into a murder. They also think it's a good idea to insult Mexican drug dealers and insult their mamas. If this film was the least bit realistic they would have all been brutally tortured and killed with it being filmed which would have been much less painful to watch than this film. These losers seem to exist in their own reality rarely interacting with anyone else outside of class. Their desperation to win this prestigious short film festival also leads them to betrayal, long pretentious conversations, murder of an innocent janitor with an eventual showdown between the three main characters. This seems to go on forever as you just want the film to end as they bicker pretentiously some more, betray each other and even fail to live up the to the title of the movie. "None" Left Standing pretentiously ends with one left standing and walking away as the credits roll.
The whole motivation for the character's actions in the film is a "small town" college short film festival, one they are so desperate to win that they'll resort to going to the "inner sector" (the Southwest's name for the ghetto?) to film a drug deal turned into a murder. They also think it's a good idea to insult Mexican drug dealers and insult their mamas. If this film was the least bit realistic they would have all been brutally tortured and killed with it being filmed which would have been much less painful to watch than this film. These losers seem to exist in their own reality rarely interacting with anyone else outside of class. Their desperation to win this prestigious short film festival also leads them to betrayal, long pretentious conversations, murder of an innocent janitor with an eventual showdown between the three main characters. This seems to go on forever as you just want the film to end as they bicker pretentiously some more, betray each other and even fail to live up the to the title of the movie. "None" Left Standing pretentiously ends with one left standing and walking away as the credits roll.
