Charlize Theron and Javier Bardem can`t resuscitate director Sean Penn`s grim romantic drama `The Last Face`
(LA Times Kings)

There´s a big, fat romantic wartime drama desperate to bust through the bloodshed, anguish and proselytizing that overwhelm director Sean Penn´s grimly earnest, wannabe epic `The Last Face.` But its capable, charismatic stars, Charlize Theron and Javier Bardem, can do only so much to keep us invested....