The thriller 'Last Ferry,' about a young gay lawyer vacationing on Fire Island who witnesses a murder after being drugged, has outsize ambitions it doesn't fulfill.
The gay-centric thriller “Last Ferry” has much creative, emotional, sexual and sociocultural terrain in mind, at least according to its production notes. So why does the film feel so convoluted and unconvincing?
As usual, it starts with the script. And the one by star Ramon O. Torres , skims the surface of the story’s loftier aspirations, often defaulting to tired stereotypes and awkwardly executed tropes. Plus, given its inconsistent viewpoint, it’s unclear exactly where on the LGBTQ continuum the movie lies.
Joseph , a young Manhattan lawyer with, it seems, limited experience in the gay world , visits Fire Island for an offseason weekend of personal and romantic exploration. But Joseph is soon “drugged and mugged” by a would-be hookup and, in his haze, may have witnessed a murder. He’s then rescued by the sympathetic Cameron , who’s renting a big house and has a few annoying pals. But is Cameron who and what he seems? Is Rafael , Cameron’s unstable hunk of an old friend, trouble with a “T?” Will Joseph exit the island alive?Director Jaki Bradley can’t quite pull the story’s disparate strands together to form an effective narrative, much less a lucid finale.
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