Sick Product of a Sick System

Powerful

Admirable film.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Run-of-the-mill. Unconvincing. OK for first half hour then premise becomes improbable. Couldn't finish.

SURVIVOR is a cookie-cutter modern-day thriller featuring non-actress Milla Jovovich in the lead role of a government worker who gets accused of crimes she didn't commit and who is subsequently forced to go on the run to clear her name. It's a story we've seen play out time and again in the likes of THE BOURNE IDENTITY and SALT, and indeed there's absolutely nothing new in the way of material here.Jovovich is one of my least favourite actresses, but at least she doesn't have time to emote here - she's too busy running around. The film's best element is Pierce Brosnan, cast against type as a cold-hearted assassin, and very good he is in the role too. Budget-wise, this is a middling story, with a number of CGI explosions and the like to keep it going, and some mildly suspenseful chase sequences which aren't too bad. It's not the type of film to set the world on fire, but if you're looking for something easy it might just do the job.

Terrible. Absolutely terrible. Poorly scripted. Poorly edited. It just made me feel, well, poorly.The dialogue in this mess of a film offered every cliché under the sun; delivered with the unnerving, empty disinterest of all involved. On the subject of the actors, Milla Jovovich, and the rest of the film's supporting cast, were so bloody wooden that I thought somebody had thrown chairs onto the set. Chairs that I had wanted to burn in a big warehouse fire.The Embassy HQ woman from Rising Damp (too lazy to look her name up - want to keep in line with the laziness of the creators of this poop of a film) was so one dimensional that I felt the dimensions of a padded cell would have been preferable to her dreadful beyond belief American accent....but then, when I thought movie making couldn't get any worse...enter...Pierce Brosnan's moustache. Then exit Pierce Brosnan's moustache, then enter again, and then it disappears just as quick. These moustache moments are possibly some of the worst lack of continuity scenes in cinema history. In fact, two of my 3 points are for that unintentional gag alone.To sum up I offer you again (like a second moustache, if you will) my assessment in paragraph 1: terrible. I watched this disaster via streaming video and it is the first time that I have prayed for buffering issues throughout - there weren't any. Technology can be so cruel sometimes. So cruel.

Not worth watching at all.A stereotypical bad action film, "Survivor" is roughly (I'm probably not a good source, I think I fazed out at some point) about some American embassy workers in London, with some explosions etc. And guess what all the British are bad - I know a British accent seems to do strange things to film-makers' brains, but really, isn't that overdone now? Okay, mostly suppressed rant aside, there was really nothing substantial or even particularly good about this movie. The plot goes exactly where you think it's going to go and all the stuff you think happens, does happen. It's predictable and pretty much the same as most of the other "action" movies out there. Also, what's with the name: there is no one in the movie that can really be classed as a "survivor" - except, perhaps, those who, like myself, for some obscure reason actually finished watching the film. And to everyone involved in making this film: you have Milla Jovovich, an absolutely awesome actress, especially for actions films (not to mention the fact you also have an actual James Bond), yet you just have her running around looking confused for basically the whole movie - seriously? You can do better.