the last wave be never go to win over the mainstream audience . it be a slow moving but fascinating film for those who be willing to go along with it . an australian property lawyer be ask to take on the case of five aborigine accuse in the murder of one of their own . all sort of portent and omen soon pop up and a the man death involve a tribal issue that be not mean for white man court and and pretty soon the lawyer be have trouble distinguish reality from fantasy . it look like the end of the world may be at hand and and he and the aborigine may know this but no one else do . richard chamberlain a the lawyer be at his peak here . david guptil and a familiar face from several other australian flick and a decent actor and be one of the five aborigine on trial . the last wave be simply not for everyone and anymore than be magnolia ( both happen to have strange thing fall from the sky ) . check it out on a slow saturday night .