The new romantic comedy Last Christmas explores humankindās greatest question: what if we took George Michaelās song āLast Christmasā... LITERALLY???!??
When we meet our star, Kate (short for Katerinaāsheās a Yugoslavian refugee, of course), played by Emilia Clarke, itās almost Christmas. She had a heart transplant during the previous holiday seasonāor ālast Christmas,ā if you will. But sheās a mess! We know this because sheās always like: āIām a mess! LOL.ā
Kate wants to be a singer, but she doesnāt even know how to ice skate. She works as an elf at a Christmas store with a woman called Santa (Michelle Yeoh). Kateās mother (Emma Thompson) is also a Yugoslavian refugee, but she canāt sleep because of Brexit! Kate meets Tom (Henry Golding) and heās super annoying and sheās really mean to him. Nobody else can see him and he canāt be reached by phone and she loves him (she gives him her heart, metaphorically.) But still, she wonders: Who gave her their heart, literally?
Then: a twist! I wonāt spoil it for you, but I will say that it has echoes of M. Night Shyamalanās The Sixth Sense, where we discovered at the end that one of the main characters was dead the whole time. Okay, good luck!
This movie is bad. Itās so bad. But whatās great is that if itās even a modest hit, it could inspire a whole cinematic universe of movies loosely based on George Michael songs, and āFather Figureā would be weird as hell. Go see Last Christmas!