Stumbling upong this 2023 horror movie by random chance here in 2023 and seeing it was a zombie movie, of course I had to watch it. Sure, I had never even heard about the movie prior to sitting down and watching it, but it was a zombie movie, that is what mattered.
Writer and director Joe Lujan utterly failed to deliver something that entertained me, much less managed to keep my attention. I managed to sit through, nay, strike that, suffer through 17 minutes of the ordeal that was "Live Survival", then I just couldn't take anymore of it. The movie was filmed with someone's camera in their mobile phone. And yeah, I just don't think that qualifies as entertainment.
And from the 17 minutes that I suffered through, I had seen enough to know that things would not get better, so why waste more time on it? The acting performances in "Live Survival" were as dead as the zombies were supposed to be, rigid, wooden and not particularly great. Needless to say that there were no one famous or reckognizable on the cast list.
"Live Survival" looked and felt like a high school home video project for some media class. And that whole found-footage style of movie never had any appeal to me, so that was also something that highly spoke against "Live Survival".
I enjoy things with zombies, but there is a limit as to what I will sit through and endure, and "Live Survival" was not one such thing. Needless to say that I am not returning to attempt watching the rest of the movie. Nor is it a movie that I will recommend you wasting your time, money or effort on.
If you have had the misfortune of sitting through the 2022 movie "Live Escape", also from writer and director Joe Lujan, then you know what kind of torment you're in for here.
My rating of "Live Survival" lands on a one out of ten stars.