The Survivor (2008)

Fantastic!

The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

second part of Ringul. final parts of Moldovan/Miclovan series. or only the isolation of Sergiu Nicolaescu in his personal universe. it is easy to define it as a bad movie. many scenes are ridiculous, the acting is not exactly decent, the dialogues - fake and the script seems missing. different events in an exotic kilt of clichés. and only explanation is the desire of director to end his work , out of political pressure, in his manner, ignoring the public or critics. a kind of revenge. or only similarities with Ludwig II of Bavaria. not the eccentricity is the problem but the absence of a coherent story. Russian roulette and Zaraza. Moldovan and entire his universe in an Utopian Bucarest . Comunist jail and the past as clay for a kind of success. the fury to say all without create a message. result - a sad film . because it has not identity. only status of jokes of an old stand up performer from different period, front to an indifferent public.

at first, this is a surprising film for me, because i never have seen Romanian films. i am not agree with reviews here. well, the script of film maybe not truthful, but i cannot say that film is bad. yes, it contains some long and unnecessary scenes with singer-woman and women- dancers. but old scenes were very good with tango and amazing melodies (and piano with Cristian Vasil)and i disliked the scene where nude Zarada was going front of ours eyes. (i was ashamed in cinema saloon with my family and wait for end of scene but it was not ending:)) OK some actors played roles who were dying very childish.and the plot very cruel. but the actors is not very good or pretty as for me they were great, especially Comissar. i like author-films (when director and first-role actor is the same person). i like it! i thank Sergiu Nikolaesku! and i will guess him as strong actor in my life. the scene where Comissar burned money was very impressible. i rated it 10.

This movie is the perfect example that you have to know when to stop and when to retire. Sergiu Nicolaescu should have stopped before this movie! The reason I gave 2 stars instead of 1, is simply for old times' sake, in memory of some good actors that appear in this movie, and in the memory of their good days. Personally, I found every actor's interpretation disappointing and very childish, not to say almost unprofessional. According to Sergiu Nicolaescu the movie was made in about 30 something days! No surprise! Even Jean Constantin (as Limba), is not what he once was, he barely plays his role and he clearly lost his zest. Very depressing to see that. George Mihaita's interpretation is absolutely ridiculous and so fake is almost hard to watch! Sergiu Nicolaescu is trying unsuccessfully to revive Moldovan's memory, but there is nothing in there. The dialogue of the whole movie is ridiculous, painful to watch, with empty words. I like more that others Vladimir Gaitan's interpretation, but in the whole context, it was not that hard to be above everybody in this movie. Ileana Lazariuc was exactly what she is and did what she can do: a simple parade of a body and show some breasts. She played very fake her role, with no talent at all! These girls should REALLY know when not to appear on screen! Talent cannot be substituted by a body, even naked for few seconds! How low is that! Just showing a relatively nice face and/or body, cannot replace the complete lack of talent! When will they ever get that concept?! Loredana Groza's presence in this movie was not only useless and not needed, but it became very annoying after very short time! Endless minutes after minutes of singing that just tried to fill the movie, besides the fact that her interpretation of the songs was pretty bad. You could easily sense that she tried to be or to incarnate a "diva", but it had that air of a bar singer nicely dressed at a corner street joint. Very very painful to watch. Not to mention the almost laughable "luck" of the Commissar Moldovan! I mean come on! Give some sense of reality to the movie! How real is that someone plays reverse Russian roulette until shooting with 5 bullets out of six and not get killed! I had to fast forward so many times in this movie, just to skip the boredom in between very few interesting scenes. I always appreciated Sergiu Nicolaescu's movies in the past, in particular the historic ones, which are excellent, but if you didn't see this movie yet and you have some respect for Nicolaescu, do not watch it! Keep in your memory the director and actor you knew and you loved before, don't ruin his image with this movie. It is so sad to see all these big names of the screen going down the drain with such a poorly made movie, from every point of view: interpretation, direction, scenario, action etc. Too bad...

Definitely not one of the great movies from Nicolaescu. This movie is supposed to be about Comisarul. Instead all we get is a cheap film about Russian roulette. Better watch the Georgian movie 13 Tzameti for unbelievable tension related to Russian roulette.Great actors but bad script. Loved the performance of Jean Constantin. Even if the action seems to take place in a western Europe city almost everybody is Romanian:) and the director is making that very clear introducing English speaking for those who are not Romanian. This movie seems like a long advert for singer Loredana Groza aka Lorry. Everything in the movie is in slow motion and for almost 20 minutes Loredana is on a cabaret stage singing....so boring. Loredana is this movie producer's wife. Does it make sense to you now? Nicolaescu please stop doing movies. You are just ruining your career after those great movies in the 70s and 80s.