The Survivalist

Dumb, dumber, and even more dumber. This film is pure trash. Overacted and badly acted. Dull action scenes. The whole film is ridiculously stupid. For Dooms Day movies, watch Omega Man, Last Man on Earth, I Am Legend and No Blade of Grass and flush this waste of a movie down the toilet bowl.

The Survivalist is another generic post-apocalypse movie with all the standard disease/zombie tropes (with COVID instead of zombies). There's even a girl who is allegedly the key to cure everyone.

The idea, I guess, was to throw in a few high-tier actors, mainly Rhys Meyers and Malkovich, and make them play out a highly emotional drama about human determination, weakness and self-sacrifice. At some points it works. But mostly it doesn't. Emotional moments look either hysterical or indifferent. And it's not the actors' fault.

Also, why do people in this movie shoot endlessly without aiming when they are SO low on ammo?

Actors such as Malkovich and Meyers should be ashamed of this film. Low budget, poorly written, non-realistic, and just generally BAD.. Whoever wrote this stinker needs to find other work as obviously can't write a script, let alone do any research on survival or tactics.

The acting are ok from well experienced actors. It is just poor script with characters' dumb moves that I wouldn't do if I'm drunk.

COVID is referenced throughout. Some carriers, some spreaders. Lots of death. A complete failure of leadership. This movie seems like it was made for $1000 over a long weekend. Boring and predictable. No upside.