Game Of Thrones: The Last Watch Review - 8 Ups & 3 Downs

Ups

8. It Has Been EXHAUSTIVELY And Incredibly Well Shot

Jeanie Finlay is a very good documentarian and also a good film-maker, which is very clear from this documentary. She's also worked with a very good editing set-up to.

There's way too much of a trend in modern documentaries and real-life shows to obsess about getting cinematic shots and the now obligatory slow motion drone shots. Sure, they look good, but they're empty and unless you're making something like Free Solo, they're a bit redundant. Pretty bunkum, for want of a better term. But not here. It's an intimately made documentary that it's very clear took an awful lot of work by Finlay herself.

The Thrones crew and cast know her, which is a fair indication of how much time she spent among them and it's very clear this was an exhaustive experience. There is zero fat on the bones of this documentary and while it's long, that doesn't mean it outstays its welcome or that there's anything that could or should have been shot.

When they say this is an unprecedented documentary experience, they really mean it. And perhaps because it has the HBO label on it, it's very well polished too, even though it was clearly intimately made. That's to its eternal credit too.