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Plot Summary
The newest film from George A. Romero (legendary creator of the Night of the Living Dead franchise) picks up where Diary of the Dead leaves off - in a nightmarish world where humans are the minority and the zombies rule. Off the coast of Delaware sits Plum Island, where two families are locked in a struggle for power. The O'Flynns approach the zombie plague with a shoot-to-kill attitude. The Muldoons feel that zombies should be quarantined and kept "alive" in hopes that a solution will someday be found.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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30%- Reviews Counted: 84
- Fresh: 25
- Rotten: 59
- Average Rating: 4.9/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: Placidly photographed and lacking in urgency, Survival shows us the living flailing at fate and the dead just flailing.
Rotten: There are some memorable images, including the sight of a beautiful, horse-riding ''dead head.'' But for much of the movie, Van Sprang's zombie fatigue seems to be an echo of Romero's own.
Rotten: Steeped in fan-pleasing gore but woefully thin on ideas, originality (beyond new zombie-offing methods) or directorial flair.
Rotten: Romero is using better actors than in the past, which helps. But they are hobbled by a sometimes nonsensical script with logical lapses even genre fans will find hard to swallow.
Customer Reviews
No Brains!
Romero should have quit while he still had a head. It's obvious. like his creatures- the living dead- he is not as mindful in this continuing series as he was when he filmed the original Night Of the Living Dead. If the living were actually faced with the threat of having their brains eaten by Romero's recent manifestations of Zombies it wouldn't hurt much because this movie was so mind-numbing. The actors, who played the living, seemed as zombiefied as the living dead-actors by going along with the poor script, bad dialogue and awful plot dimensions. What's worse is they acted it with a fever of a Broadway hit- melodramatic and staged.
Of course, the premise is a-typical of the Romero series where as zombies and living are forced to deal with superficial environment and habitat disputes, only in different geological places. In this installment it happens to be on an island where a bonanza of irish families feud over how to deal with the infestation- to kill them all and let God sort them out, or try and sort them out to appease God. Furthermore, strangers, armed to the teeth, come to the island to seek refuge and to take sides. The dialogue Romero has his characters speak is way off the mark, out of touch and old fashioned. And the developing plot dimensions are absolutely absurd. For example, the strangers drive a armored vehicle filled with millions dollars and take it on a fairy to get to the island. And in the end the survivors take the cash and seek some other geographical location - that still has an existing economy that uses U.S. dollars??? Even worse, the landscape of the island is filled with rouge zombies, one in particular still rides a horse. In the end the irish family who wants to try to save the zombies uses this horse riding zombie as a test subject to see if it will eat something besides human fleash... the main course? The horse of course! ...the same one it's been riding around the island forever and hasn't eaten yet.
Some zombie-film lovers don't mind a script without much brains- they're more interested in the gore and blood and fantastic refried deaths. Well, this movie comes with buckets of gore and blood and whatever other special effects Romero has had in his bag since the beginning of zombie movie time. In other words, there's nothing new here. If fact, you don't even have to pay that much attention to find bloopers and follies where reshoot and additional shots missed blood and gore that was previously there.
With movies like 28 Days Later, Shawn Of the Dead and Zombieland contemporizing every feature of modern zombie movies; from down-to-earth characters, grainy special effects, great stories, good laughs and up-to-date scare tactics (even SOD had scary moments) - Romero simply seem out of his element at this point. Or was he ever in the element? Looking back on Romero's series only one movie has stood out, Night of The Living Dead. Perhaps because it was the first and there was no measuring stick. And maybe now Romero is simply trying to survive by feeding off the praise and respect he received for being a pioneer in the genre- in hopes fans will give him a pass on his ethos. However, a real good artist knows when to step it up or step on out. If Romero continues to make the same color versions of Night of the Living Dead in different settings and geographical locations, he might find his credibility as a master of the genre tarnished for good, especially if he takes his zombie-savvy audience for granted and reproduces the same cheesy plots, dialogue and effects he's been using for years. Don't get me wrong those elements can be good to, as in the example of Return of the Living Dead, however, in this case the film lacks even the wanted b-flick charms. In short, how much longer can Romero's living dead series actually survive?
Romero is king!
What more can I say? This sated my undead hunger for a while, at least til "The Walking Dead" series premiers on AMC TV at 10 pm est on Halloween night! The best apocolypse is always a zombie one!
Complete Waste of Celluloid
Warning. This film is Awful.
Out of the scores of movies I've rented on iTunes, this is one of the worst, correct that, this may be the worst movie I have rented in years. Horrendous plot, terrible acting, low-budget...In fact, I gave up 3/4 through the film, as I couldn't take any more of this hell. This is an embarrassment to the legacy of George Romero.
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