So, I'm thinking I have masochistic tendencies. It's the only way that explains why, after seeing the trailer for this movie, that I then went ahead and watched it anyway.
I think it was the thought that, as the trailer portrayed, a movie so aggressively crazy and dumb just had to have some explanation for the stupid on display in the trailer.
Well, I'm happy to report that the explanations, such as they are, amount to utter nonsense cooked up by someone with no understanding of the real world, the ocean, wildlife, or even human nature.
Survive is a very bad film. Very bad. The ocean retreats because the poles reverse because...reasons. When one of the characters asks where did it go, another suggests (literally) that it went to where the land was. I mean, what the actual F?
Later, we are treated to spider crabs swarming and attacking anything because "the oxygen drove them mad". No, really, I'm not making this up. Never mind the fact that crabs, whilst able to survive out of water for a little while, were fully okay after days and scuttling about en masse like someone watched one too many scenes from Starship Troopers.
A man goes mad and turns into a psycho after the event and wanders the ocean floor with his dog seeking victims. What five year old wrote this?
Even putting aside the ludicrous story, the acting is very variable. And by variable, I mean it veers between wooden and damn annoying in equal measure. No one acts well here, but some of the annoyance is down to the writing and direction, at least.
Also, I get that it was a cheap production. About $5M dollars, but since they blew most of that on the CGI (which isn't too terrible) there wasn't much left, I guess, to hire, you know, competent writers. Because, if they had competent writers, then maybe they wouldn't have spelt "Caribbean" wrong.
All in all, you do better not bothering with this one. It's not worth your time.
SUMMARY: A very badly written premise leading to badly written characters doing badly acted things in a badly thought-out landscape. Give it a miss.
I think it was the thought that, as the trailer portrayed, a movie so aggressively crazy and dumb just had to have some explanation for the stupid on display in the trailer.
Well, I'm happy to report that the explanations, such as they are, amount to utter nonsense cooked up by someone with no understanding of the real world, the ocean, wildlife, or even human nature.
Survive is a very bad film. Very bad. The ocean retreats because the poles reverse because...reasons. When one of the characters asks where did it go, another suggests (literally) that it went to where the land was. I mean, what the actual F?
Later, we are treated to spider crabs swarming and attacking anything because "the oxygen drove them mad". No, really, I'm not making this up. Never mind the fact that crabs, whilst able to survive out of water for a little while, were fully okay after days and scuttling about en masse like someone watched one too many scenes from Starship Troopers.
A man goes mad and turns into a psycho after the event and wanders the ocean floor with his dog seeking victims. What five year old wrote this?
Even putting aside the ludicrous story, the acting is very variable. And by variable, I mean it veers between wooden and damn annoying in equal measure. No one acts well here, but some of the annoyance is down to the writing and direction, at least.
Also, I get that it was a cheap production. About $5M dollars, but since they blew most of that on the CGI (which isn't too terrible) there wasn't much left, I guess, to hire, you know, competent writers. Because, if they had competent writers, then maybe they wouldn't have spelt "Caribbean" wrong.
All in all, you do better not bothering with this one. It's not worth your time.
SUMMARY: A very badly written premise leading to badly written characters doing badly acted things in a badly thought-out landscape. Give it a miss.