Film Breakdown "Survivor" (2015)

Film Title- "Survivor"

A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is 

forced to go on the run when she is framed for crimes she did not commit.

Motivations for the characters

Assassin-Money

Kate-Revenge for her friends in 911

Business man-Make the dollar "100 Billion"

Characters

·        Ray

·        Johnny Talbot

·        Alvin Murdock

·        Kate

·        Sam

·        Sally

·        Bill

       

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     Abbott goes on the run (you’ll quickly stop bothering to ask why) and becomes the number one suspect in the duck-breast bombing case. Then things begin to get far-fetched. With her face plastered across television screens, Abbott spends the day meandering through London, catches a flight to New York under the disguise of some spectacles and winds up foiling a terrorist plot to blow up Times Square.

       Beginning

·         Crash helicopter

·         Soldier burned

·         Restaurant big boom-Start of the middle

     

·     Middle

          Assassin

·         Kate wanted

·         Kate goes to new York-Start of the end

    End

·         Time square bomb

·         New year’s eve

·         Kate stops assassin from shooting explosive

·         1million people saved

·         Film Finish 

     The action sequences are good fun, don’t let up for a moment and are generally cleverly shot. And the script wastes no time hurtling into "so-bad-it’s-good" territory: “we believe in that old-fashioned idea of country”; “the place is crawling with marines”. There is even one actual joke: “He’s had so much reconstructive surgery, no-one knows what the hell he looks like,” says one of the good guys. The cut to Brosnan’s taut, twitching face is timed to perfection. 

    The Verdict

Nearly 14 years after the September 11th terrorist attacks, we have seen images of that day used multiple times on the big screen. It can act as a powerful shorthand attempting to explain why our nation has taken various actions (for good or ill). In Survivor, it is used to explain why one person takes her job so seriously and to convince the audience that we are not safe. The film is particularly disappointing as McTeigue also directed V for Vendetta, a much sharper, much more intriguing, much more thought-provoking look at our post-9/11 world.