Survivor - I nearly didn’t survive this

Oh, dear... where to begin. ‘Cheap’ is the word I’d use to describe ‘Survivor.’ Even the title is hardly inspired.  I ran the word ‘survivor’ through the Internet Movie Database’s search to try and find this film, but there are so many other films/TV shows called it, that I had to end up looking it up via an actor’s name.  In fact, the searching for it online was actually more enjoyable than the film.

Okay, that maybe a little harsh, but it was just so cheap it was hardly worth bothering with.  It’s about (and I can barely be bothered to regurgitate it all again!) the last few survivors from a doomed Earth, now destined to fly through space while they search for a new home planet.  The spaceships all look computer-generated, but that doesn’t last long.  The ship soon crashes and they have to survive on an inhospitable planet.  Or at least one of them does.  A lone girl has to basically fight through hordes of native humans (and later monsters) to try and rescue the few remaining crewmates who survived the crash. 

It basically plays out like ‘After Earth’ but with less of a budget.  Then again, After Earth hardly set the Box Office on fire, so that is a strange film to base another one on!  Later on the cast moves to underground and, what with the inclusion of the monsters, it ends up a bit like ‘The Descent.’

Even sci-fi fans won’t really enjoy this film.  It’s just too cheap and too unoriginal to really offer anything new.  Yeah, if you’re really that bored on a Saturday afternoon and you come across this film on TV (no way you would ever feel justified in paying for it!) you may just sit through it.  Only if you’re bored though.  Really bored.

3/10 Jabba the Hutt wipes himself down with this film