Review of Survivor (2015) by Meritcoba — 26 Sep 2015

Mila Jovovich runs the danger of becoming synonymous with under par movies, just like Uwe Boll's reputation precedes him. It would be unfair, because she really seems to improve her acting and perhaps she might even do some more serious work later down the line. It remains to be seen.

In this movie her character is fleshed out some more, albeit still in a shallow way for this is an action movie and it doesn't linger too much on backgrounds. The movie is filled with some seasoned actors, Pierce Brosan, Dylan McDermott and Robert Forster which seems to be a setup for a somewhat better movie. Rest asure: it isn't.

A bunch of characters are wiped of the face of the earth early on so the movie can turn into a cat and mouse game between Jovovich and Brosnan, which is the meat of the story. To make sure nobody will aid Jovovich she gets mistaken for having murdered Forster and this coupled with the usual bad-guys-control-everything ploy, the local-authorities-do-not-believe her trick and her-coworkers-do-not-either element is a definite sign that the script forgoes any originality and plunges to the depth of banalities. It isn't even that the concept is wrong - most stories are similar - but there isn't anything special, interesting, original or even specific entertaining about this movie that makes it in any way stand out .

Time and again the major weakness of many movies is the story. It astounds me. With so many books and writers out there, is it really impossible to create a decent script with some decent characters and acceptable dialogues? It can't be that hard, for sure? As it is Survivor is an incredible waster of actor potential that just baffles by doing so..

Unspectacular to say the least...