Movie review - Survivor

Cast: Milla Jovovich, Pierce Brosnan and Dylan McDermott
Director: James McTeigue
E-Value: 4
Acting: 6
Plot: 4
IF there is any surviving to be done, it would be to survive watching this movie.
The problem is not the acting because the only thing worth watching is the able cast, which also includes veteran actors like Robert Forster, Frances de la Tour, and Angela Bassett. The problem is the script and direction.
Jovovich plays Kate Abbott, an American security specialist recently hired at the American Embassy in London to buff up national security. Like a very well trained sniffer dog, Abbott smells terrorist activity from a mile away and pursues a lead, much to her superior's (Forster) distaste for an obvious reason (Kudos to Forster's acting for stating the obvious from the very beginning).
And like Jason Bourne, Abbott becomes a fugitive wrongly accused of going rogue.
So the movie carries on with Abbott taking matters into her own hands to thwart a major terrorist attack, going up against a steely assassin code name Watchmaker (Brosnan) who unrealistically struggles to eliminate his obviously combat-untrained target (Abbott).
The plot is clichéd and predictable. The chase sequences as quite thrilling and exciting, until you realize that the movie is heading toward an ending that you already know – Abbott will succeed and the Americans will once again triumph over terrorists.
All in, there really is very little to praise about this forgettable movie and I think the bulk of the disappointment stems from how overqualified the cast are for a script so underdeveloped.