Surviving the Game [Blu-ray] [DVD]

Yes, it's a campy plot and script (WHY would Mason - Ice T - accept a job as a "survival guide" when he knew nothing about the area or the conditions of where they were going or anything about hunting as well...??); having said that, it IS "entertaining" and what's strange about this film is I feel the need to pull it off the shelf & watch it from time to time. I'm being quite generous here, but I'm giving it a 5-star rating anyway - just for the scenery, the background music, and the fact that it's a greatly-revised version of the original film "The Most Dangerous Game" from back in the late '20's or early '30's. Yes, the acting was "mediocre" at best (Gary Busey's tome' about how he got his "birth mark" was unique), but I feel that purely for the entertainment value, it was still a pretty good flick. One of the other reviewers, however, did trigger something in the back of my mind: Ice-T's character of Mason, a homeless guy desperate for money, upon accepting this"hunting guide" job, CONTINUOUSLY "bad-mouths" these guys constantly, right up to the point where he gets woken up by Charles S. Dutton's character waving a chromed .50 caliber Desert Eagle pistol in his face. Look, if I had been Mason's character for real, I would've gone out of my way to be overly polite to these guys! Instead, Mason CONTINUOUSLY bad-mouths these guys all the time. "Hunt animals in the wilderness? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard...!!" "Sounds f'ked up to me...!!" "That's stupid!" And on and on and on. Nothing but extreme "negativity" out of Mason's mouth to the guy(s) who offered him a good-paying job..!! That, alone, made me feel a lot less "sympathy" towards Mason's character as the pmitt unfolded later in the film. There were other "things" that were puzzling, as well: Mason's "return to Seattle" after only 3 day's time. Considering where they were at, and how long in a Beechcraft D-18 it took them to fly through the wilderness to get to the cabin in the first place; how did Mason manage to make it back to Seattle in only 3 day's time? 3 weeks, perhaps, I could better understand. But three (3) days?? Naaaah. And finally, one other little bit of trivia: when Mason runs back to the cabin after being chased, one of the very first things he does is smash the lock on the interior door to see what's behind it. When he opens the door, the first thing he does is reach over &"FLIP ON A LIGHT SWITCH..!!" Maybe someone would explain to me "WHERE DID THE ELECTRICITY COME FROM" to turn on the lights?? This is a log (or wood) cabin in the wilderness. As we saw from the view from the Beechcraft coming into the area where the cabin wax situated, there were no "solar panel arrays" on the roof of the cabin. Batteries?? Perhaps, but we are also led to believe that is cabin is visited perhaps only once or maybe twice a year. So where did the electricity cone from..?? They didn't use candles if you recall, at least not much. Look, I'm still gonna give this flick a "5-star" rating, just for the entertainment factor. But should the producers ever decide to do a remake of this movie, I'd hope they would pay a little greater attention to "the little details". It would make this film a lot more enjoyable rather than coming across as "campy" or in some cases, downright silly...!! My opinion..!!

Powerful action thriller 👍

This was a good film with a good cast of actors, great scenery, some dark humor and lots of intense action. The plot follows Jack Mason as a homeless person who's just reach the end of hope after loosing his pet dog and friend. On the day he goes to kill himself he is saved by a man working for a homeless shelter who offers a job to get money which Mason believes this is his chance to get back on his feet. However, not everything is what it seems. When Mason is taken into the wilderness and meets a group of strange and twisted group of characters. He finds out they aren't here to hunt animals, their out to hunt him. Manson spends most of the time out smarting his enemies rather fighting them head on. Great film that seriously needs to release this blu-ray. Overall, a very fun film to watch.

Ice-T is good in this movie. I like that it has a lot of action scenes.

Great old school action movie

Great

I love how the movie really show you if your in a situation similar to this movie. It actually show you how you can survive, not to give up because you don't no where you are, your not extremely powerless, that you can get out most situations but you have to let fear take over and push you into survival mode, you have know choice but to submit to God and remember that your life is worth fighting for. Also because your grown, homeless doesn't mean that your giving up. You keep finding reasons to live which forces you to go into a life or death situation and most of the time you can get out of any situation that is harmful, or deadly to your family or yourself. This movie basically teaches you not to trust anyone, go with anyone anywhere especially if you don't know them and out the blue your offered jobs, money, shelter, trips but not a reason as to why someone want to do all this for me, why just me when you could have been looking for someone who isn't homeless, a person that has nothing but now that person is beneficial to others, without any knowledge or understanding of what it is that make you think I'm important and you need my skills, you can be trained to do whatever is necessary to for fill what ever it is that made you interested in yourself. To me this movie teaches us how to survive any circumstances

I am not a big Ice T fan but he was perfect in this movie even though the dread wig in the beginning is horrible, lol. Rutger Hauer, Gary Busey, Charles S Dutton and F Murray Abraham all put in great performances.

Estupendo

Solid action movie

hace mucho tiempo que quería comprar esta película en el formato DVD , me gusta mucho , la tenia en VHS y se veía como en aquellos tiempos.

Absoluter mega Film👍👍

just the job thanks thourt of years ago how time flys but i was a good film then and still is