Survivre

The only reason I watched this was because Bruce Willis was featured. I can't imagine why he decided to act in/put his name on this film. I am astonished at how disappointing this movie was. Willis's son's wife is a plastic surgery nightmare. The characters have dozens of opportunities to save themselves from their predicament. What a disappointment of a thriller. Waste of time.

There were more plot holes than the unnecessarily long and sappy 90 minute cat and mouse runtime smh. I get that this is amateur writer Doug Wolfe's first ever writing credit, but c'mon, didn't anyone else proofread this ridiculous long dragged out mess?

Here's the math: of the 90 min runtime, subtract 7 mins for opening and post credits. Then we have 20 mins of some bad guys involved in, what, I don't know, that also pull off a stupid stunt, as well as the Brady Bunch family, where the son is a failure, for, I don't know what. The remaining 60+ minutes is the most ridiculous and illogical plot-riddled to the point of hilariousness cat-and-mouse game, with dragged out long and useless scenes. Add the soap-opera sappy dialogue between two brothers, and the father and son trying to rekindle their relationship - amidst the so called terror. Escape, come back, hide, get caught, repeat. And even for criminals, the stupidity in their actions were laughable. It got annoying very fast. Had this film been a 20 min short, it may have received a 5 or 6 from me.

Bruce Willis was his usual "look at me I'm Bruce Willis" attitude with his stale monotonic washed-up tough-guy demeanor. But that I expected going into this, because anything worse than a Bruce Willis film, is another Bruce Willis film. Even the pretty Lydia Hull, who oddly is in almost every Willis film, was boring and stale. The rest of the cast were ok, with the bad guys being the most convincing, and made the effort to act. I'm sure failure from the director to direct his cast properly was a big part of the rest of the characters' failed acting.

The directing was also sub-par with some terrible editing. For a b-grade film, the score wasn't as annoying as I'd expected it to be, but still somewhat overbearing and unfitting. The cinematography was ok, but bad in the night outdoor scenes.

If you watch this film at 5x faster speed, even without hearing any dialogue, you'll get the gist of the entire story, which is nothing new and done many times before. Sadly, it's a generous 3/10 from me, and I will never get my 90 minutes back.

Bruce, are you bored or something? Got a huge debt? Why do you keep showing up in these seriously bad movies with scripts as if they were written in the late 80ies or early 90ies?

You have been in so many good movies, it's weird that I no longer can take it for granted that it's a quality film if your name is on it.

If you are a Bruce Willis fan give this a miss. it is awful. Maybe Bruce was related to the other people in this film and thought he would appear as a favour? No, he should not have bothered. Aside from Bruce whose performance was wooden or just about there. I think he must have filmed all his scenes in one day to get it all over and done with family or not. Poor story or just downright lazy? I could hve written better myself, on a bad day. Maybe Bruce was bored living with his ex demi in lockdown and got out for a couple of hours to "star" in this. Really Bruce? Shame on you, trying to pass this off as entertainment.

Films with Bruce Willis are sliding lower and lower. He was a good actor.