“Survive” has crab monsters on its poster and predominantly featured in its trailer. It should be noted that these “arthropods from the abyss” are barely found in the picture, mostly regulated to the last act, where the beasties make brief appearances. “Survive” isn’t the disaster movie it initially seems to be, as director Frederic Jardin doesn’t have the budget to go with his depiction of a global catastrophe, instead laboring to launch endurance trials with a few locations and a lot of panicked acting from the cast. “Survive” has the makings for a bleak ride around the end of the world, but it doesn’t have enough excitement and incident to really launch a series of thrills. It feels a little hollow and anticlimactic, and while Jardin is committed to following characters as they experience an unthinkable situation of self-preservation, his sense of upheaval could use some work, as the endeavor is missing a more intense appreciation of global ruin. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com