The Survivors

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Bucky D One of my favorite comedies from the 80's. Jerry Reed was great as the bad guy. Robin Williams was hilarious. He had so many memorable lines. The gunfight in the forest and the scene where Matthau puts the hot gun in Williams hand are some of my favorites. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/19/24 Full Review Aaron H I've seen this movie 3 or 4 times over the years. It is one of my favorite movies. Robin Williams, Walter Matthau and Jerry Reed are hilarious. It rambles a bit, but it is fantastic. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/24/24 Full Review Devin J Disappointing that this got panned by professional critics so hard, there are a lot of great one-liners in this movie, and it is more of a thinking, social satire comedy then just all out laughs. Glad that actually people seem to like it more but still surprised it's below 50% Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/25/23 Full Review william d This is one of the first films I watched after signing up for premium cable TV for the first time almost forty years ago. Watching it again reminded me of how thrilling it was to get uncut, unedited movies right on the TV, but that's not the point I want to make. The point is I thought this movie was funny back then and I think it's funny now. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Tim N A much better movie than it gets credit for. Robin Williams is as over the top as always (almost like he's doing stand up) but Walter Matthau is as fantastic as always. I just enjoy watching it to see his reactions to the absurdity. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/27/22 Full Review Audience Member A time capsule of nonsense, there is some worthwhile nostalgia to it. In this time period before TikTok, there were a ton of horrible movies like this which were basically loosely-premised opportunities for stars to show off. Is Mathau's character believable as an old man who somehow has a 16 year-old daughter? Of course not. Does it make sense that anyone would take their daughter along for the ride to intercept a hit-man at a camp full of gun-shooting preppers? Of course not. Absurdism runs high, but you get a clear sense of Robin's manic essence, Mathau's Odd Couple essence, and just how low the bar was for some of these movies. Keep in mind that just one year before this movie, Robin made a screen adaptation of the nebulous The World According to Garp not only "palable" but "dazzling" according to critics--a confusing offering ahead of it's time for a movie in the mainstream. Similarly, just one year later, Robin gives an unprecedented peek behind his manic mask with the tragicomic Moscow on the Hudson, cementing a trend and making bits of nonsense like The Survivors all the more forgettable. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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