I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Truly Dreadful Film

Simply A Masterpiece

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

The Survivors is about a pair of unlikely buddies who come together after a shared experience chasing off a robber of a fast food place. One's a blue collar guy who loses his business in a crazy accident that incidentally is caused by the white collar guy. How it happens I won't reveal, it's a moment that could have happened in one of Jerry Lewis's films.Walter Matthau is the blue collar guy and he's the usual gruff Matthau type part. It fits him perfectly. Robin Williams is our business executive who loses his job in a business reorganization after a couple of decades at the same company. I sympathize with Williams, I worked at the same place for 23 years once I found the job I really liked. Not easy to lose familiar and comfortable surroundings.Williams is in a part that had Woody Allen written all over it. This was early in his big screen career and I think Robin was trying on a lot projects seeing what would fit his particular brand of zany. Matthau and Williams foil a robbery committed by a man wearing a hood. That is Jerry Reed, a professional hit man doing a little robbery of a fast food place because he's between assignments and has a cash flow problem. Even hit men have to pay the rent. What he does to try and elude folks as to his identity is also pretty funny. Still Matthau pulls his hood off and recognizes him.Later on these two capture him, but Reed gets out on bail. He feels he has to eliminate these two now because of an indiscreet remark he makes.But Williams is feeling all kinds of macho now. He joins a survivalist group and becomes obsessed with all kinds of weaponry. Perfect NRA material. His best scenes are in the survivalist camp and it's the part of the film that will make you think Woody Allen.Not the best or worst from either of the stars. But The Survivors might really been a better film had Woody Allen starred and directed it.

This is a prime example of one of those extremely fair/mediocre films that comes on late night TV sometimes that i just cant not watch at least a little of. Don't get me wrong its far from a perfect film, heck, its far from a good film but i just find elements of it fun to watch. Robin Williams and Walter Matthau are two, for very interesting reasons, recently out of people that get mixed up together when the diner that they are both at gets robbed by Jerry Reed. From that the movie proceeds to tell the tale of these "Survivors". As i stated before the plot is extremely week and the pay-off is sub-standard but there are definite funny lines and scenes. Here are some examples."I place a high value on human life...20,000 dollars minimum.""Blasphmy! You will smoke a turd in hell for that!""I left my green card in my other pants."In conclusion, give this movie a try. But don't expect greatness.

This is a very funny movie. This is an American comedy classic! Period. I dunno what that guy's talking' about. I buy the DVD, lend it and never get it back (so I have to buy it again). There are more great one-liners in this movie than you can shake a stick at. for example: Walter Matthau "Donald, are you okay?" Donald (Robin Williams) holding a hand gun laying on the ground. "Yeah I'm okay, but I think I killed your tree." Or what about this: Donald at the end of a long line at the unemployment office addressing a seemingly dignified elderly woman "Excuse madam, would you mind if I cut in?" "Oh no, not at all, if you don't mind me biting off your nose and sticking it up your ass." See, that's what I mean-outta left field, who-saw-that-one-coming writing. Robin Williams has never been funnier in a movie. What else can you say about a movie featuring luxury survival condos in upstate New York for Heaven's sake? "We'll be hanging on to the rim here when the toilet of society gets the Big Flush." And don't get me started on the Jerry Reed-the bad guy hit-man "I place a very high value on human life-$25,000." Okay, okay-in some highfalutin, grand sense, this movie has no point-none. When, and why, did humor have to have some meaning beyond itself? Who keeps poisoning the comedy well? Oh wait... Doug Chaz sez check it out.

This movie does it all: entertains, sickens, confuses, enlightens, disappoints, enrages, delights... You get a young, burgeoning Robin Williams at the height of his cocaine abuse, a poorly-aged and dangerously arthritic Walter Matthau whose acting conjures past greatness ("Charade") and the effervescent Jerry Reed, at the peak of his career and in full, self-confident stride after the monumental success of the "Smokey" series and "Highballin" (won two awards at Cannes and a Gay and Lesbian Film Alliance Honor). Not sure why this movie is listed a comedy. I sob uncontrollably every time I watch it, which is nine times a week since 1996. Simply put, Reed's character "Jack" steals the show. His role would've been bigger but rumor has it that he made ridiculous demands while on set. Apparently, he had in his contract dodo-egg omelets at every meal and nobody on set can utter his name. Towards the end of filming, he attacked Robin William's publicist with a samurai sword. Needless to say, the man is our new Lord and this movie is his Testament....