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In SURVIVE, Julia and her loving husband celebrate their son's birthday on their boat in the middle of the ocean. When a violent storm nearly capsizes them, the family awakes in a desert land. Earth has undergone a tragic polarity reversal, draining water from the oceans. The family must race to safety before the water returns all while battling hungry creatures from the abyss that hunt for fresh flesh.
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Robert Daniels RogerEbert.com 01/10/2025
3/4
Between the premise and the lively score, “Survive” is decent enough B-movie background noise that closely mirrors “Dante’s Peak” until something truly remarkable occurs... Go to Full Review
Phil Hoad Guardian 01/07/2025
3/5
This directorial pep, along with invested performances across the board, allows Survive to build a sense of family vulnerabilities that is rawer than the standard cheap audience-identification tactics usually used in blockbuster disaster movies. Go to Full Review
John Serba Decider 06/29/2025
Pick a tone, Survive! Its push-pull between plausible terror and outright silliness is about equal, for better or worse. Go to Full Review
Alejandro Lingenti La Nación (Argentina) 02/05/2025
3/5
Being a low-budget film, Frédéric Jardin...had to resort to his imagination, for lack of resources. And it must be said that he responded well to that requirement. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Joel Harley Starburst 01/23/2025
3/5
But there’s no accusing Survive of being dry, swinging for the fences in a narrative that plays out somewhere between The Day After Tomorrow and Mad Max. Go to Full Review
Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast 01/16/2025
1.5/4
The film begins with a silly alarmist set piece and then tries to up the stakes by fast tracking the fall of humanity in survivalist situations until finally arriving at becoming Starship Troopers – with crabs! Silly. Go to Full Review
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Actually I @Susan265 1d How on earth did this movie get such high critic reviews? This is one of the stupidest survivor movies I think I've ever seen. Somehow they survived the entire ocean being emptied out underneath them. Then the surrounding land is like a desert bone dry the only water anywhere is a puddle in their boat with a couple of fish flopping, nothing anywhere else. Then out of all of the people that could happen upon them they get a madman. Who promptly kills the father with his homemade spear because these people have zero sense of self preservation. The mother gets a scratch on her shoulder from the spear... but suddenly she can't walk, she's limping, from what? Then there's the casting choices. An anorexic 30 something being cast as a witless teenage girl. None of these people can act. The idea that pole reversal would cause the oceans to move is idiotic, that's just not how these things work. I only lasted halfway through and I just couldn't take it anymore. Survive it if you can. See more Dart T @RT14640639 2d I have watched hundreds, possibly thousands, of movies in 37 years and have never created an account just to review one. Survive changed that. I’m a liberal and a leftist. I care about pollution and climate change. That is why this movie’s "message" is so insulting. It replaces world-building with scattered plastic, radioactive barrels and toilets on a bone-dry "ocean floor" that should still be mud, lakes and dead marine life. The magnetic poles somehow move the oceans inland. A fridge door falls off for no reason. Bats fly from a sealed plane that was underwater hours earlier. A child drinks seawater and is fine. Survivors hide in a container with a hole while a massive cargo ship sits nearby. "Abyssal" crabs near Cuba ignore endless dead sea life, their own carcasses and a fresh body, while changing from nocturnal to daytime hunters whenever the plot demands it. The film even reuses the same crab-swarm shot. This is not fun schlock. It is lazy, incoherent and offensively bad. See more charlotte S @RT92495169 2d The ocean is replaced by a desert overnight? Why does a strange silent man come out of nowhere with his dog and start attacking them. There are swarms of crabs attacking people and winning? I laughed this entire movie because it was so bad. See more Michael F @RT26335690 2d I downloaded RT just to leave this review. Plot is ok but If I could give less than 1 star I would. First 10 mins was ok. But after the oceans move magically the seafloor is a dessert in 12 hours? No plant life? No salt, no mud? Barely any evidence it was an ocean? And people turn to murder in 12 hours? This director should never work again. My friends made better movies in 5th grade See more Five County R @RT37176868 5d The title says it all, you will be lucky to Survive. The premise is decent, therefore One Half Star. Spectacularly downhill from there. The acting is wooden, the dialog is banal, the score is Laughable. Why switch back and forth between French and English? What boat goes on the ocean doesn't have a life raft or a firearm? People who WANT to die, that's who. If the ocean drained, where's the seaweed, fish, sand, and coral? We are supposed to believe that overnight, it's a dessert? If you have a boat with a working shower, there's a 150 to 200 gallon water tank, go back to the stupid boat and look, you dumb cow. Who is the guy that shows up with a DOG on Foot, never says a word, but kills people? Let me walk out to meet him. Zero sense. Dumb. The French should stick to making stinky cheese, instead of stinky movies. The teal bracelet will save you.... so dumb. The Crabs are scary, please... Stomp them, don't shoot them. By the end, you will want them to die. The Worst. See more Clarissa L @RT02008833 5d I watched this movie because of the description in the preview. It sounded intriguing, and ended up being really, really dumb! 1- the polarity shift made no sense, there was 0 leftover water, and random setups to "make it harder" for their travels to their destination. 2- the daughter and the son were truly really hard to deal with, the daughter cared more about listening to music on her headphones (which is crazy btw, if the entire polarity of the Earth shifted the night before and you were more interested (and somehow still had battery for) listening to music then helping your parents devise a solution to surviving, what are you even doing?) A useless "make things harder" character in the film. The son? Just watch it- he doesn't listen, is apparently 13 but acts like a 6 year old. 3- The crabs... do we understand how crabs work? See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis In SURVIVE, Julia and her loving husband celebrate their son's birthday on their boat in the middle of the ocean. When a violent storm nearly capsizes them, the family awakes in a desert land. Earth has undergone a tragic polarity reversal, draining water from the oceans. The family must race to safety before the water returns all while battling hungry creatures from the abyss that hunt for fresh flesh.
Director
Frédéric Jardin
Producer
Marc-Etienne Schwartz, Marc Stanimirovic
Screenwriter
Alexandre Coquelle, Mathieu Oullion
Distributor
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Production Co
Monkey Pack Films, M.E.S Productions
Genre
Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi
Original Language
French
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 10, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 10, 2025
Runtime
1h 30m
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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