The Last Survivors

2014 "Stand your ground."
5.3| 1h35m| en
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In the near future, society collapses and water becomes scarce. When a greedy water baron starts violently clearing out survivors, Kendal, a 17-year-old teenager, fights the baron's henchman to keep a well open.

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Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place
StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Suman Roberson It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.
Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
bkoganbing Life's not been easy for brother and sister Haley Lu Richardson and Booboo Stewart since the drought came. A drought unlike any other. Oregon where they live is no longer fertile and green. Instead it's looking very much like the Mojave Desert where The Last Survivors was shot. It stopped raining there 10 years earlier in a natural world wide disaster.But in their own corner of the world a man named Carson played by Jon Gries is pushing out all of the people who are and have dug wells to survive. He's got the men and muscle to push them out and kill the survivors. Gries wants the whole valley for himself and to pass on to his daughter Nicole Ariana Fox who's as much a human predator as her father is.This quickie which only took days to shoot is decently done and the ensemble cast give good performances. It's one bleak picture of a possible future. One thing I could not figure out, water was the big issue here, but I never saw anyone eat anything, where was all the food?Make note of Max Charles who played a kid also trying to survive that Richardson and Stewart kind of adopt. He and Richardson stood out in this cast.
TxMike Maybe the writer/director is a wannabee Quentin Tarantino, taking this post-apocalyptic setting with stranded teenagers to ward off the plan of a murderous water baron. The difference is Tarantino's scripts are always semi-serious, but this script is dead serious and the kids end up having to shoot and hack a bunch of adults to death. That to me really detracts from an otherwise fine effort.A bit over three years ago I saw a very mediocre Christmas-themed movie but I recall the one highlight was a very young actress named Haley Lu Richardson. She had a good role in that earlier movie and I was anxious to see how she has progressed, nearing the age of 20 but still a teenager.She plays Kendal, a very confident and self-sufficient girl in the Oregon desert (actually filmed in California's Mojave desert). It hasn't rained for about 10 years, all the homes are just shells of their former forms, people are trying to get any water from the drying wells. Kendal wants to escape the desert and her hope is they will find a suitable replacement for the broken distributor cap of the small airplane's engine. She searches among all the wrecked and abandoned cars and trucks she can find. As her own meager water well is just about dry.She shares her space with teen Booboo Stewart as Dean. They have made a small room in the corner of the attic so that they will not be found by searchers. It isn't clear to me what their relationship might be but near the end they kiss so he must be a boyfriend. But he is dying of kidney failure and the lack of water just exacerbates the problem.The big problem is a water baron who is using water scarcity to usurp all the properties for himself, and resorting to point-blank shooting of people he considers excessive. This is the enemy that Kendal must finally eradicate to assure their safety, and hopefully find a repair part to allow them to fly out of the valley and to a more hospitable place.Saw it at home on Netflix streaming.
kosmasp The way we see the future is really depressing most of the times. Even if it's a great movie like "Mad Max Fury Road", it's very dark (dusty and dry too). As is the case with this low budget movie. It might have its issues along the way, but for its budget it is more than just decently made.Surviving in a hostile environment is not easy. Especially if you have bad guys like the ones in this movie. Still you long for the standoff you know will be coming, sweating along the way (sorry for the pun) and really feeling for the main character and what she has to go through. Which is a nice touch to have a female character being in the middle of all of this.
spiritchaser-26477 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.