The Last Survivors (2014)

One of the best films i have seen

disgusting, overrated, pointless

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

The movie is set in post-apocalyptic Oregon and for some unknown reason the rain stopped falling ten years prior and the few remaining people struggle to survive as water becomes scarce.Kendal (the protagonist) hides out in an abandoned farmhouse with Dean, who's kidneys are failing. He slowly and laboriously works away at random distributor caps that Kendal brings him, trying to make them fit...something. Yes, the movie drags. Just...as...slow...as...that...As the dragging progresses the villain emerges with his many zealots who scour the valley, hunting for survivors to kill those who he claims are using his water without his "permission" (yawn).While Kendal continues to scrounge for water and supplies and searches fruitlessly for THE distributor cap to repair an old airplane (AH HA! So there WAS a reason for the distributor cap. But now we're left to guess for ourselves what's so #$%^ed important about the plane???) Throughout the movie Kendal demonstrates an impossible skill of hiding and sneaking around in a completely flat and barren desert where apparently no one can spot her running around. She goes days without water killing bad guys, running back and forth across the blistering hot sands, giving dying Dean her share of the water.And in the final triumphant fight scene, where Kendal demonstrates an impossible skill with a katana, she easily takes down a full grown man who's swinging a machete full force, clashing blade on blade, which Kendal easily matches. And then after Kendal dispatches him with not much effort suddenly Kendal can barely fight another girl that Kendal F@#$%ing SHOT with a shotgun.The movie is obviously just feminist orgasmatron wet dream.Dumb. Just flat stupidly dumb.

I guess. If beautiful teen models struggling to survive a violent, widespread water shortage isn't silly enough, the dialogue and acting in "The Last Survivors" are too weak to convey believable struggle. The actors just don't have the chops to offer much more than their beautiful faces as entertainment. Put a little makeup on the male lead and he'd be kissable too.No offense, but based on most of the reviews on Amazon, young viewers enjoy it as a beautifully shot post apocalyptic teen romance. Fair enough, but I can't imagine any intelligent person over 30 sitting through this vapid chain of artfully composed scenes. I had to fast forward through almost half of the film to see if there was any payoff by the end of this uninteresting, slow moving, cliché ridden story. Nope! And, "better than the "Road," as one reviewer wrote? Not even close.I generally enjoy the low budget post apocalyptic sci-fi sub genre. However, the lack of grittiness and believable survival savagery made this movie too lightweight to sit through.

For a post-apocalyptic movie, The Well has the environment right. It's entirely set in rustic desert settlement where water has become a rare commodity. The lead female character is certainly identifiable, and Haley Hu Richardson's good performance makes it easy to root for the girl survivor. However, the narrative might be lacking and some parts of the movie are irritatingly flawed such as the hazy scene when it's dark and its increasing number of inconsistent details towards the end.The world is suffering from perpetual dry season as the rain stops pouring. This unfortunate calamity has changed the city into just a few barren houses and the people into vagrants. Kendal (Haley Hu Richardson) is one of the survivors and she has to deal with the barren wasteland as well as some of its volatile occupants. While the lead is pretty good on her own, majority of the supporting characters might not be appealing to audiences.The film intents to draw sympathy as Kendal is struggling for her survival as she ventures into the real equipped with boldness and occasional luck. The film succeeds on doing so, but only partially. The little boy character seems off putting as he is detached from any interaction. If this is an attempt for a strong lone wolf character, the result is far from that. Dean as a sick companion feels doomed and depressing from the start while some of the antagonist are too overbearing in their zealous quest.Visual is pretty good, the movie plays with the setting to create a believable land plagued by drought. Color is mostly sandy brown with plenty of bright light for panoramic shots. Sadly, it doesn't translate well when the scenes turn to night time or any place covered by darkness. These are excessively vague and while these sequences are not that many, they are enough to hamper the quality.Some details are jarring for the post-apocalyptic world, which is unfortunately since the movie invested a lot on the setting already. Female characters are looking like models, which is hard to believe when even basic need such as water is scarce. At some points Kendal is supposed to be stealthy, but she merely struts in an open field for all to see. Not to mention at latter half she becomes one woman army, dispatching foes with shotguns and a katana like it's a Walking Dead episode.The Well delivers an intriguing premise with the teenage girl lead and it makes good use of the barren land, although the entirety of her journey might feel inconsistent and contrived.

The well wants us to believe that Oregon is out of water....here's a hint go left to the ocean and start desalinating....it's a post apocalyptic movie that revolves around a girl that does everything except eat for 40 days...in which case she would be dead...she is trying to take care of a guy named Dean that you really begin to hate about 15 minutes into the movie....all he does is sleep and complain, when he finally dies I actually yelled hooray!......She eventually finds a means to escape, but does the the stupid thing and opts for revenge. Overall this entire movie sucked, but I will give props to Haley Lu Richardson for actually trying to make this an interesting movie.....she's a good actress, but just got cast in a horrible movie. I mean come on, all they want is water...and one guy eats half a peach 40 days later....it's not a survival movie...it's a joke.