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It’s the 1600s and Europe is torn apart by religious warfare. Omar Sharif plays a Catholic villager who must help his people get along with their Protestant occupiers, led by Michael Caine. Caine’s militia have the power to wipe the Catholics out, pillage, rape and do whatever they like. But Caine takes a liking to Sharif and vice-versa. So everybody just gets along and hopes the war leaves their idyllic mountain valley village alone. The problem is, that without the pillaging, rape, and whatever, The Last Valley is a really fucking boring-ass movie. So little action. So little drama. Caine and Sharif are both wooden, making the movie even more impenetrable. There’s pretty John Barry music and widescreen photography, but that’s all I found to care about in writer/director James Clavell’s bloated would-be epic.