Survivor
Survivor
NR | 22 July 2014 (USA)
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During their search for a habitable planet the last living humans crash-land on a barren world, inhabited by bloodthirsty aliens and mysterious post-apocalyptic warriors.

Reviews
Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.
Supelice Dreadfully Boring
Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
Michael Ledo The film centers on Kay (Danielle Chuchran) which is not short for Katniss, but should be judging by the cover pose. The earth became uninhabitable for kittens so seven ships left through wormholes to seek out other planets. Kay gives us a monologue to catch us help, spouting bad science to weave a tale. She stays in shape in a simulator where they learn to shoot and play war games. They quickly crash land on a planet which is inhabited by unfriendly aliens who speak a German version of sand creature and wear a Heinz 57 combinations of Mad Max respirators. There are also unfriendly aliens who look like they came from a 1950's film. K manages to save most of the crew by herself, except Anne (Abigail Mason) who was prettier.Kay has a number of skills apparently acquired in the simulator not shown such as the bow, axe throwing, horse riding, and rock climbing.The film is a Sci-Fi film aimed at a younger audience. There is no swearing, no sex, no nudity...heck no one even talks about a shower. The dialogue was boring. The characters were boring.Danielle Chuchran played Katniss back in 2010 in a short feature hoping to get an audition for the role. The Utah company that made this film is also the same one that made Orc Wars/Dragonfyre which accounts for the lack of a quality script. 2 stars for most adults, although I am sure some kids and fans of Danielle Chuchran will enjoy the feature.I can think of a dozen similar movies, with all but one being worse
Scunner So apparently the Earth drifts out of its orbit for some reason and to fix this the human race decides to smash sub atomic particles together in particle accelerators despite the fact this would do absolutely nothing to solve the problem. Then to make matters worse for some other random reason these particle accelerators create mini black holes which proceed to heat up the Earth and boil off its oceans. This of course ignores the fact that said black holes would in fact rapidly descent to the Earth's core and begin eating it from the inside.Anyway what this film mostly consists of is a girl running, jumping and climbing a lot. At one point she even has a magic quiver of arrows which, despite the fact you can clearly see it has only one arrow in it, keeps producing new ones until she's killed all her enemies before finally running out. She also does a lot of posing on high rocky outcrops despite the fact she's trying to avoid the locals.Oh and Kevin Sorbo lies at the bottom of a cliff with a broken leg for two days in a desert yet appears not to be in any need of food or water. He really is Hercules it would appear.I notice this was funded through kickstarter so that old maxim of "a fool and his money are soon parted" seems as true today as ever. Probably more so if this nonsense is anything to go by.
Neil Welch One of the 7 spaceships carrying the surviving humans from a poisoned Earth passes through a wormhole and then crashes, stranding the surviving survivors in a place which looks suspiciously like Utah. Well-trained survival expert (the surviviest of the surviving survivors) and hottie Kate (Danielle Chuchran) faces off against Mad Max warriors and some monsters while running a great deal, swimming a bit, fighting a lot, and otherwise occupying time until we arrive a twist which has been obvious from about 10 minutes in to all except those who have never seen a film before.Miss Chuchran is physically very impressive, and deals with the considerable physical requirements of her role very well: her thesping is not quite so impressive. The scenery is fantastic, and the look of this Kickstarter-funded movie is impressive: the visuals mean that you are often unaware that this is a low budget movie. The special effects are better than the budgetary considerations would have you believe, and the film is technically well made - beautifully photographed, good sound, well edited, a pleasing score, and so on.It is let down in the writing. The story is completely predictable, and you can list the influences as they pass by - the whole thing is cobbled together out of bits taken from other films. It's a shame - what's seen on screen deserves better than the second hand tripe it's hung on.
siderite This film is, indeed, all about Danielle Chuchran. She is beautiful, incredibly athletic and a quite decent actress. The sci- fi in the film is of the type of Firefly, you know, you go to another planet and there are American cowboys there. So not that much. However, the few sci- fi bits in the story did further it, so in my mind that part was a success.After enjoying the hell out of Shadow of the Cabal, I had to see this movie as well, especially since it starred Danielle, and I can tell you it did not disappoint. The story, as usual (shame, Arrowstorm!), was a bit silly, but simple enough to not bother me tremendously. Kevin Sorbo did play a larger role, although it's becoming a pattern in these films: he appears as some sort of father authority figure, does a few scenes, then splits.The action scenes were really good, as expected from a professional stunt actress, but also the director has to be good at it. The scenes were great and reminded me of the orc elf battle that hooked me when watching Shadow of the Cabal. The implanted computer, scanner and holographic screen was a great addition and allowed the story to move fast over some logistical problems like how people find each other, coordinate over large distances and detect food or injuries.There were issues with the film. The technical details in the introduction almost threw me off completely in the beginning of the film. The character of Weston was ridiculous and completely unnecessary - they could have done more with him. Also they took their sweet time to "get it". I won't spoil it here, but as a hint just listen carefully at the alien language and you can figure it out in the first 15 minutes.Other than that, few characters and a lot less character development made this almost a pure action film. Danielle was great, and also Melanie Stone, which you may (barely) recognize from the Mythica series. Sorbo acted well, but his character was a little bit ridiculous. He had a lot of scenes about bones and almost all cracked me up - no pun intended (OK, I did intend it a little).It is far from perfect, but was one of the best movies in this particular genre and I really don't understand the mostly mean comments the film has received here. I mean, if they would have used cars instead of running around it would have been Mad Max, and you bloody loved that one!