this action pack and think provoke sci fi drama have be one of my personal favorite for over 30 year . charlton heston find his definitive role here and a the last man on earth and a scientist fight a single handed battle against hundred of mutant creature of the night . on the basic level and this movie have some of the most explosive action i have ever see . heston be at his best a a bloodless technocrat and a stone killer and exterminate mutant with machine gun and pistol and grenade and and his bare hand and all the time give off an icy air of detachment . put chuck up against clint eastwood or charles bronson and he definitely hold his own purely a a seventy action hero . on the other hand and this be also chuck best performance a an actor . the fact that he literally have the screen to himself for the first half hour allow him to do thing he never do in his epic star mode . watch him buy that used car and make small talk with a rotted corpse . chuck put across so much loneliness and yet entirely avoids self pity and a in thanks a lot and you cheat bastard . it a scream to watch the big than life moses deal with life everyday hassle and not in reality but in wistful fantasy . then watch the woodstock scene in the movie theater . here right wing idealist charlton heston watch leave wing hippy dance and frolic . here the last man on earth watch huge mob of people crowd up the world that be now empty . the irony be razor sharp and and heston just lie back and let the dialog work for him . just to see and just to really realize and that if you have to be afraid to smile at someone and if you have to be afraid to walk down the street and what kind of world be that . right . note well the master restraint . he doesn not sneer and he put much more sadness into the lip reading bit and with a little self loathe on the side . the dialog and situation be tailor make for heston cold decisive vocal style . it not hammy stuff and it heston give you the same kind of chill deniro achieve in taxi driver . it the paranoid loner a tragic hero . this cold withdrawn stuff be right down his power alley and and chuck send this scene into the upper deck . once the movie get start and heston get superb assistance from anthony zerbe a the religious fanatic brother matthias . zerbe be superb and the commentary on religious fanaticism be even more relevant today than it be thirty year ago . then there the sizzle racial subplot and the kill whitey fanaticism of brother zachary striking far too close to home in 1973 but remain as provocative a ever today . it disturb indeed to note the subliminal message of the inter racial love affair the nice white man be happy to take care of the black woman and her child and but only after the assertive black man be dead . a movie that provokes and entertains and and combine scorch social issue with rip roaring adventure and the omega man be heston best . nope they sure do not make picture like that any more .