Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

May Contain Spoilers 01. Large, attention-getting bonfires may be started in dry sand with one charcoal briquette propelled from a slingshot. The tactic is sound, provided you have access to a slingshot…and a charcoal briquette.02. Even if water is so scarce you need to count every drop, you will never have to worry about appearing dehydrated or suffer the indignity of chapped lips. Furthermore, dry cleaning of the hair, nails and clothing will keep you looking snappy, even if H2O becomes something the next generation only knows about in legend.03. If you do all the work and fighting, give all your water to the annoying emo guy who does nothing but look pale and whine about his kidneys shutting down. Never worry you will offend his sense of gallantry or honor: "don't waste it on me," is not in his vocabulary.04. Don't add to the annoying emo guy's problems by informing him that the well has been dry for days -- he has enough to worry about already…instead, give him more water…after all, he has to at least be able to cry if necessary.05. Food and water are not strictly necessary for human survival, they are really addictions. Hence hunger and thirst are cravings and may be overcome with enough patience and determination. This revelation awoke gooey, nostalgic memories of the film Ghost (1990) which demonstrated that death is just a disability that can be mastered if you only try hard enough.06. About every 5-20 minutes, introduce characters who sequentially speak in lower and lower registers. Your audience will thank you for distracting them from your film by having to regularly play with the remote.07. About every 5-20 minutes, be sure to have the screen go dark for what appears minutes at a time. Your audience will thank you for providing them with opportunities to imagine that something interesting is actually happening even if they can't see it.08. Ten years without rain will make Oregon look like the Lucerne Valley of the Mojave Desert. Even at Crater Lake and along the Pacific coast. Apparently Alaska, points North and the Great Lakes will have evaporated as well. In fact, it is well known that a single tanning booth turned the Sahara from a rain-forest into a wasteland in one afternoon.09. If you see strangers in the distance, leave your weapons lying on the sand as they approach so you don't hurt their feelings by implying you might not trust them. When they arrive and start killing your people, continue to not go for your weapons and stand in a line to make it easier for them to shoot you one by one. This is known as etiquette, although some unrefined types who don't know any better call it idiocy.10. Costuming the Big Bad Guy in a cassock, or at least a ministerial collar, for no particular reason adds layers and layers of subtle nuance, depth and dimension to the character and is not, by any stretch of the imagination, just a clown-like, ludicrous and trite cinematic cliché.11. When hiding from bad guys, look in the direction opposite from where they are so they won't be able to see you. For added protection, turn your face away as well. It's best not to know where they are.12. Some bad guys like to bag their heads in burlap and lay buried supine in the sand on the off chance someone will pass by. In case none of the other 8 or 9 people in the cast comes along, it's always possible a spontaneous remake of Mad Max will occur instead.13. In the future, anything viewed through a telescope or a pair of binoculars will be distorted and blurry. This is known as DystopiaVision or ApocolypseScope. The technique has had a profound effect on film-making, equivalent to the effect Citizen Kane (1941) had on Francois Truffaut, or the effect Racket Girls (1951) had on Ed Wood.14. In the future, telescopes will be rectangular, even though the optimal shape for high-quality optical lenses is circular -- a fact discovered by glass-makers even before the invention of the telescope. On the other hand, a rectangular case has the added advantages of being bulkier and more difficult to hold and focus.15. As already noted by the alert reviewer randall-50: In the future, internal combustion, prop-driven, light civil aircraft will dispense with magnetos in favor of distributors. Such crisp screen writing and attention to detail is worthy of Kubrick, or at least Microsoft Flight Simulator.16. After ten years without rain there will not be anyone left in Oregon with an IQ greater than 35.7. Exactly.17. When making a dramatic film, never hire someone who is clinically depressed to be your location scout.18. When making a dramatic film, be sure to use 100% genuine actors.XYZ

I think the ratings on IMDb for this movie are for once spot on. It doesn't deserve more than an average 5. It's not that I didn't enjoy watching the movie or so because this is one of the genres I really like, apocalyptic movies. But the story-line is sometimes really stupid and that brings the movie down. For example when the bad guys visit the farms for multiple times over and over again and they need heat sensors to see if there is still somebody living or hiding there is just too ridiculous. The house is almost totally destroyed and is a dump, you really don't need a heat sensor to figure out if there are survivors. It's little things like that that are not good for the movie. Otherwise Haley Lu Richardson as the main character does not do a bad job. She's just not helped by the poor script. The last half hour is also not that great. They clearly ran out of imagination and didn't put too much effort in it.

I enjoy Fallout-themed features like "The Book of Eli", "Snow Piercer" and "The Hills Have Eyes." For its independent film budget, "The Last Survivors" delivered good production quality and intense drama with well-paced scenes. The film director depicted hardships and life-and-death struggles that were very convincing. Carson and his daughter make formidable villains (think "Neegan"). I can empathize with Kendal's day-to-day struggle to hide from the hunters, scrounge enough food and water for her group, and eject stragglers from their land, with the hope to find the correct distributor cap to fly their plane a better place. For its originality and fine execution, I give it high ratings.

The way we see the future is really depressing most of the times. Even if it's a great movie like "Mad Max Fury Road", it's very dark (dusty and dry too). As is the case with this low budget movie. It might have its issues along the way, but for its budget it is more than just decently made.Surviving in a hostile environment is not easy. Especially if you have bad guys like the ones in this movie. Still you long for the standoff you know will be coming, sweating along the way (sorry for the pun) and really feeling for the main character and what she has to go through. Which is a nice touch to have a female character being in the middle of all of this.