After mankind moved into space, the old planet Earth is forgotten, a polluted wasteland where only expelled prisoners still survive. One of them is Tarkin (Xavier Declie). When a capsule with the president lands on Earth, Kyla (Richard Moll) captures the politician because he knows a spaceship will come to the rescue, and that will be his chance to get off the prison planet. Tarkin, however, fights Kyla to free the president. While Kyla rules over an army of gladiators, Tarkin has to rely on the president's little grandson...

Cheaply produced in Puerto Rico, this is obviously a mix of various things we have seen before, somewhat like 'Escape From New York' in the jungle, but you get the fights, explosions and freaky characters, it is not too bad to watch once.

As mentioned in the summary this is a gravely underestimated movie. Granted the cover and initial views on this movie is just another random B-Class movie. However, there is something beautiful with the rawness that this (obviously) budget movie has to offer. When me and my friend found this movie, we were mindset on a bad Tarrantino-like movie. However, we had to relabel the movie to a true classic sci-fi action movie, with all the necessary elements in it: a fugitive from the law, outcasts, savages and a half evil and half mad villain. You should however take into account that we had a couple of beers in us when we enjoyed classic (almost cult)movie. And we did!

THE SURVIVOR is an oddball B-movie which appears to be a badly put-together mish-mash of other, better movies, namely PREDATOR and ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. An overacting Richard Moll plays the usual bad guy who kidnaps the president (played by old-timer Richard Herd, whom you may recognise from ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN and THE CHINA SYNDROME),and only a rebel has the power to tackle him. Most of this is made up of routine jungle action with some sci-fi tropes added to the mix. The lack of decent characterisation really hurts it, and the budget is simply too low to do the material justice.