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- 2015
- PG-13
- Alchemy
- 1 h 36 m
- 2015
- PG-13
- Alchemy
- 1 h 36 m
Summary After being mysteriously framed for a terrorist bombing, a Foreign Service Officer (Milla Jovovich) must evade government capture and death by a ruthless assassin (Pierce Brosnan) in order to stop the real perpetrators’ master-plan.
Directed By: James McTeigue
Written By: Philip Shelby
- 2015
- PG-13
- Alchemy
- 1 h 36 m
- 2015
- PG-13
- Alchemy
- 1 h 36 m
Survivor
28
4.1
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Summary After being mysteriously framed for a terrorist bombing, a Foreign Service Officer (Milla Jovovich) must evade government capture and death by a ruthless assassin (Pierce Brosnan) in order to stop the real perpetrators’ master-plan.
Directed By: James McTeigue
Written By: Philip Shelby
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
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50% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
50% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
28
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
50% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
50% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
The film is particularly disappointing as McTeigue also directed V for Vendetta, a much sharper, much more intriguing, much more thought-provoking look at our post-9/11 world.
Survivor, predictable, short and shallow ticking clock thriller that it is, is more “Three Days of the Condor” than “Taken.” And thanks to its stars, it’s more engrossing and fun than it has any right to be.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 49 User Ratings
4.1
10% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
57% Mixed
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
33% Negative
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 49 User Ratings
4.1
10% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
57% Mixed
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
33% Negative
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
It’s a lumberingly dated kind of spy thriller, convoluted without ever being intriguing – and an insufficient number of bangs for your buck.
Director James McTeigue frequently collaborates with the visionary Wachowski siblings, and he directed V for Vendetta. How the man who blew up Parliament in such memorably spectacular fashion can’t add some originality to Philip Shelby’s script is the movie’s only real mystery.
Amid the choppy action and whirl of sketchy characters lie muddled messages about revenge, greed, war, hubris and the endless ripple effects of 9/11.
The overarching sense is of a thriller awkwardly stitched together in the editing room, and still failing to fix its many flaws.
This is the kind of filmmaking that gets touted as "workmanlike" when it's really straight-laced to the point of tepidness.
I liked a lot of the actors, especially McDermott... but even Mila's acting was bad. The story was decent but it wasn't executed and the ending **** pretty bad. The journey to get to the ending was decent but it failed in the end.
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The previous reviewer, "quincytheodore," did a very nice job of summing up the movie. Oddly, as I am usually kind of a tough critic, I was not terribly disappointed with "Survivor." Because it does have a stellar cast, I was happy to just go along for the ride. There are many silly anomalies: as one with a passing knowledge of firearms, you don't shoot a case-hardened padlock at close range, unless you have death wish, especially when it's attached to a cheesy hasp that you could just kick in; while on the run and shopping, our heroine never bothers to purchase a little make-up kit to guise her substantial facial injuries; likewise, since she is "on-the-run" I could not understand why she replaced her high heels with high-heeled boots instead of running shoes; the dramatic denouement was only possible because of an encounter that put a pistol in her hands... otherwise, "Sayonara New York City!" Etc, etc.I, too, was annoyed by the gratuitous dire warning at the closing credits. When our own Department of Defense sends live anthrax viruses to 11 locations in America, I think we should be doing due-diligence of another kind... not to mention the 4,000,000,000 + personnel records that were hacked this week from federal government files! Anyway, the competent filming and engaging actors made this worth the watching.
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I have to agree with quincytheadore - even a solid cast and terrific acting cant't redeem a film built around preposterous, underwhelming script. By the finale I felt more cheated than thrilled.
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