Survive

This movie was absolute nonsense. While the visuals were quite stunning, and the acting was good, but significantly melodramatic; the writing and directing was absolutely baffling. It may have made more sense when it was a 12 part mini-series but the idea of sitting through 12 hours when I was already bored out of my mind by a 2 hour movie was simply torturous.

The logical holes in this movie were egregious also. If they had just stayed put when the plane crashed they would have been fine. I guess that wouldnt have made much of a movie, but the decision defied logic. The whole movie seemed like it was rushing itself and I kept asking myself why are they in such a hurry. Movie gotta movie, I guess.

Jane (Sophie Turner) is suicidal and leaving treatment despite still spiraling out of control. Her plane crashes in the freezing mountains. She and fellow passenger Paul Hart (Corey Hawkins) are the only survivors.

The movie needs to get to the plane crash sooner. The treatment center opening section is unnecessary and unnecessarily artsy. All that can be revealed later with flashbacks and conversations. When she actually reveals her story, it's underwhelming. The opening is not adding much anyways. Her freak-out at the airport is more informative and more compelling. The plane crash could be better. It would be more logical if the plane crash happens when they are sitting side by side at the back of the plane. The logic is so false that I do wonder if he's a ghost. There is a lot that could be better. Their survival skills are trash although she has one great excuse. One would expect her character to be annoying but he's the annoying one. The locations are cool as long as they use the real locations. There is plenty of survival action but they are generally not filmed well. I don't know much about Mark Pellington but he doesn't seem to be a big action guy. This probably needs to be an action-packed survival film and they definitely need to get rid of the L word. They struggle to get that central premise through and that is what ultimately sinks this movie. I don't buy their connection and the L feels forced.

Acting was good but the script really sucked. Stupid from beginning to end. I had to watch it just to validate how truly bad this movie was lol. No mention of food, water or any obvious survival strategies. Just off-the-wall stupid. Someone else had mentioned they needed to get to the crash earlier and I agree, although after the crash the film deteriorated quickly. In all fairness there were some good moments but not enough to validate more than a two star rating. I don't want to drag out this review but it's requiring at least another 160 characters lol. So I will say once again this was a waste of the talented actors in this film. A lot of these survival type films are pretty stupid to begin with and this one certainly fits the pattern.

I survived watching it...but none of the characters really deserved too.... Not really an enjoyable story to watch. They've tried to paste a backstory onto it which doesn't fit the movie, the acting is pretty awful, and the characters make the stupidest errors every step along the way. The sentimental emotional story is probably not what fans of this genre of movie are really after. They could have invested that effort into a more engrossing and exciting survival experience. Both the cringe factor and the smh factor are high with this one I'm afraid. Scenery was OK and some effects were decent enough though.

Confession - I'm only halfway through this movie but my eyes hurt from rolling them so hard. I genuinely wonder how this movie was funded and made because, in what world would a commercial flight leaving from one state in the US, going to another state in the US go down and the NTSB doesn't immediately jump into action. If a plane goes down, they look at where the plane lost contact and they swarm the area. I don't know whose decision it was to be so lazy as to not even bother explain the reason that they're only hope was to trek out of the snow-covered treacherous mountains because they were so alone that it might takes "weeks, or months, or never" for them to be found. Seriously?! Did you advertise this movie in smoke shops? What was the target audience that they thought wouldn't notice that this scenario is beyond implausible?