Unlimitedia Sick Product of a Sick System

Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

videorama-759-859391 There are other films like this, one action spectacular, starring Van Damne around the same time, which I won't mention. The plot is straight forward. Homeless guy, Mason (very well played by Ice T, who inhabits his pathetic lonely character totally) after attempting to kill himself, is thrown a proposition, from his supposed savior (Charles L Dutton) to partake in a hunting expedition way up in the desolate wilderness. It is led by seedy hunting guide (Hauer, in great form as always) only he's the prey of Hauer, and his cronies. It's frightening to think this would happen for real, which this is the disturbing element of this nicely flowed film, with a sort of getting to know you scene, first, set around the dinner table. Ohll, I'm getting hungry. As dawn breaks, the hunt begins, only they of course, didn't count on Mason outsmarting them with some impressive and inventive traps, where you wouldn't think a character like him, would be capable of such smarts. But don't judge a book by it's cover. John McGinley was notably fantastic, as a real intense nutball of the group. His character might of seemed overacted, but it isn't. That's who this guy really is, and he does have it in for the black fellas. Ice T really holds his own here, playing a type, he doesn't normally play. I strongly felt the weakest performance, was that of William Mcnamara, as the reluctant son of F Murray Abraham where I've seen better acting from him too. The movie plays well on suspense, as it doesn't go straight in for the kill, and is unpredictable in bits, as to Ice T's wants and actions. The tying up loose end bit, was grand, as was the last bit of dialogue. Good B grade actioner, that entertained me wholly. You don't want to pass this baby up.

Maziun "Surviving the game" is a movie based on story that by today's standards is very cliché. It was done before (for example : "The Most dangerous game " , "The Running man") it appears today ("The Hunger games") and probably will appear in the future . It's a classic story like a bank robbery or mysterious man from nowhere saves the city . The audience already knows what to expect from this kind of movie. I'm not saying it's a bad thing . In good hands you can make a good movie from unoriginal story. "STG" is somewhere in the middle in terms of quality.There is some impressive cast for a B-class movie : Ice T (famous raper, well maybe not now , but in the past) Rutger Hauer ("Blade runner") , Charles Dutton ("Alien 3") , Gary Busey ("Lethal weapon") and F. Murray Abraham ("Amadeus") . It isn't strange to see Hauer in a B-class movie ( sadly , most of his movies are that) , but to have such interesting bunch of actors in one movie is certainly a rare treat for movie lovers . None of them shows here anything really memorable , but they did a decent job. The story is rather obvious from start to finish. Thankfully it's never boring .The movie itself is a decent popcorn flick . Not a bad way to spend your time . There is nothing you haven't seen here that wasn't done before and better . Still , I was quite entertained for hour and half , and after all I could spend my time in much more painful way watching some crap movie . I give it 3/10.

peterpants66 The early nineties was a massive cross-over period for the hip-hop artist looking to solidify a lengthy career outside of the music biz. Ice-T plays a bum on the street until he crosses paths with Rutger Hauer who invites him to earn some cash out in the woods with a couple of his rich buddies. For his ignorance he's rewarded with being the pawn in a game of human hunting. But he's not nearly as easy to kill as he seems (dreadlocks) and he ends up collecting some scalps of his own en-route to a crisp finish(Toasty). The movie was a cable classic, an adventure with the likes of Gary Busey and Charles Dutton brandishing hi-caliber firearms and fast motor bikes. And guess what? You just might learn sumthin from this here, inner-city meets outer-limits tale of deception and greed. For one, never, EVER, shoot a gun you just found on the street. Clean it first. The end.

merklekranz "Surviving the Game" is a hunted in the woods action picture with numerous problems. The set up in Seattle, with Ice T being duped into becoming the hunted, takes way too long. Once in the remote wilderness, there are frequent talky moments that seem like, and are, nothing but celluloid filler. The movie becomes less and less logical as it goes along, and the conclusion is a total train wreck. A night instantly changing into day sequence on atv's is absolutely priceless. Some of the acting is acceptable, and character development is pretty good, but the film fails to impress, because eventually all logic flies out the window, and the ending is rushed and wretched. - MERK