The Survivalist (2015)

I love post apocalyptic films, so when I first heard of this, I checked it out. It's not any sort of monster or zombie, or mutant...it's just Humans fine rogue and totally feral. I definitely recommend this one..it needs more recognition because it truly is a fantastic

What a massive lie this movie is. Here is how it bills itself: "Riveting. Mad Max in the countryside." Nothing could be further from the truth. The entire movie takes place in a makeshift cabin, supposedly in the Irish countryside, after a massive plague or apocalypse, which is never explained, involving a man, who rapes the daughter of a mother and daughter asking for help, in a way that somehow, in the depraved indifference of the apocalypse, makes it seem all okay. In perfect patriarchal form, when the food supply is decimated by outsiders, the mother asks the daughter to poison the dude. She instead poisons the mother. Later, dude is killed by the initial marauders, who both resemble and behave absolutely nothing like the Road Warrior characters. So here's what you get: great acting, solid screenplay, decent cinematography, great lighting, competent directing...and an extremely boring and disappointing film without passion or redemption. Again, no problem if they told us this upfront, rather than trying build up an action film that is exactly the opposite. Don't watch or buy this film. Their goal is to dupe you into believing it is 28 days later combined with Fury Road. It was filmed in someone's grandmother's backyard.

As other reviews state it will be too slow for some. However I found it to be extremely well made. Puts Hollywood movies to shame. One of the most realistic and gritty post apocalyptic movies I have ever seen.

!SPOILERS!I imagine this is happening in some sort of post-war world, where people have to survive on their own without energy. If it isn't so, we are not told anything anyway.So an old woman and a young girl continuously try to kill a lonely young man in his small wooden house in the middle of the forest. The one that treated them fairly well, fed them, and could possibly protect them and be very useful. Yes, the younger one offered sex for all of this, and it was a mutual agreement, yet they continued to try killing him again. What was their plan - to live together in his house happily ever after? It wasn't about robbery, he clearly didn't have much of value, and the women had enough time to see that.Then, out of nowhere comes a bunch of ill-motivated men wearing masks (as if it still mattered in their world whether their faces would be seen or not) trying to kill everyone in the house, apparently, while destroying his crops. The three of them did not compete for anything in that forest, so what was the point of attacking them, with an intention to kill? Why would you destroy crops in a world where food is hard to come by? Maybe the attackers had something else in mind, they probably wouldn't kill a young female, and maybe they would try to convince the guy to join them as well, but the two parties were not given a chance to talk, in fact, they didn't even see each other before the final shoot- out. I had an impression the women have escaped from their previous camp, and the dudes were searching for them, but again - nothing is explained.It's hard to see anyone's intention here, since characters barely speak (the main man is mumbling in Irish (I suppose) at times, to add that "extra flavor"), and their actions make no sense. Everyone is simply homicidal for no apparent reason, and no coherent story is shown.The director clearly didn't use his thinker too much with this one, he was too busy showing us cock, ass and tits close-ups (hello, Mia Goth fans), and trying to attract unwise survival-minded viewers. It seems the movie has no other point than to show how unreasonable people (and movie directors) can be.