Surviving the Game

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Summary: Spectacular performance by Ice-T and Rutger Hauer
Review: I liked their tight exposed luscious buns

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Summary: Humans and Animals - are we the same?
Review: I saw Hard Target after I saw this amazing film, and it simply pales in comparison. Rutger Hauer leads an outstanding cast with whispered lines that make you think... I first saw this film as an adventurous action flick, but I knew I had missed something in the script. Carefully watching it again, I saw the finer elements of this film which makes it stand out from so many others. The whole parallel between humans, hunters, and the hunted is placed before you. The Gary Busey character reveals it all, as the group taste, talk to, touch, feel, and finally start to consume their victim. Needless to say I loved this part, and it makes the whole film fall together brilliantly. I'm sure there are other films out there which follow this theme, but I can't see how this one could not be the cream of the crop.

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Summary: Lights, Camera, Action!!
Review: I saw this movie for the first time about a year ago, and I never get bored with it. It's full of action, and keeps you on the edge of your seat. I thought Ice-T played an excellent role. If you're looking for adventure, try this one!

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Summary: Just a Fun Flick
Review: I wouldn't call this a great work of art, but I've watched it about 10 times and pop it in every month or so. It's silly and the only viewers who will take it seriously are probably younger than 15, but it's still fun. Gary Busey delivers a monologue early in the movie that is really amazing. It'll either be painful or funny watching these actors (F. Murray Abraham especially) deliver their lines - they're that bad. Example: Ice-T character is being pursued by the others, they spot him and one says "It's Mason! Let's get him!". Example 2: Bad guys fall for a trap Mason sets - "Oh no, he set us up!". But like I said, it is a fun movie. Just don't expect a masterpiece.

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Summary: Rapper turned Actor -
Review: Ice-T, rapper turned actor. I love adventure movies and this one has plenty of adventure! Five or Six rich men hunt human beings but they meet their match with Ice-T who plays a homeless man. Their sport is tho hunt live people (I wonder if this is a true story?) Good movie for a Saturday night!

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Summary: Ice-T as Rambo?!
Review: In this vicious 1994 action drama, six wealthy businessmen each pay $50,000 to participate in a "special" hunt in the Oregon wilderness. The trick is that they've researched and offered homeless but street-smart Jack Mason (Ice-T) into being their $500-a-week guide. But, the morning after they wine and dine him, these perverts awaken him with the news that HE is the hunted, then throw him outside, unarmed, with only a brief head start. The fact that they have SWAT-style weapons, motorbikes and wireless communication is part of their thrill. The first half of the film effectively develops Mason as hard not to like, especially when he conceives the first of many survival ideas. Gary Busey and Rutger Hauer are chilling.

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Summary: Ice T should have stuck with rapping.
Review: Jeesh. What makes all these hip-hopers wanna desperately become movie stars, have no acting ability with a carry-over effect on their music? Why? So they can star in movies like this and "Friday?" Didn't they make enough money rapping? Didn't they already get all the girls? Now they go down in history as awful actors who were just pretending to be gangsters in their music.
This movie is so bad it pains me to think of it. O.K. One scene Ice-T gets SHOT in the gut from about 20 feet away with a rifle. I kept looking for a bullet proof vest, but couldn't find any. Next thing you know, He's wrestling and running like nothing ever happened to him, and the hole in his stomach is never mentioned again. Now, do you see why I give this movie 1 star?

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Summary: Surviving the Lame
Review: Pity must have moved me to give this sorry movie even one star. It sucks, period. Please don't waste your time. Rehashed plots, horrible direction, script, and acting. Wow, I take the one star back!

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Summary: A Good No-Brainer.
Review: Rocket science it's not, but it is a good action flick. Ice-T plays a homeless man who is tricked into going on a hunt where he becomes the hunted. What it lacks in dialouge and character buildup, it makes up for in pure adrenaline. Gary Busey does a great job playing a demented hunter. This is a good movie for DVD because of the explosions and superior sound. If you want to watch a movie that will get your heart pumping and your mind flatlining, buy it. It's worth it.

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Summary: ALSO CHECK YOUR AMMO
Review: SURVIVING THE GAME is another entry in THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME genre: an innocent man is chosen to be the prey of a group of sadistic hunters who plan to hunt and kill him for the sport. Under the steroid-like direction of Ernest Dickerson, a mostly competent cast elevates this above its actual merit. The main flaw is the casting of Ice T as the "hero"; the man tries hard but he is not a good actor and he cannot carry the weight of this movie. Fortunately, he is surrounded with some expert character actors: eternal badguy Rutger Hauer shines as the menacing co-founder of the hunting group; Charles D. Dutton chews up the forest in his role as Hauer's partner; John C. McGinley takes acting honors for his psychotic cowboy overwrought with the unsolved murder of his daughter; Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham brings his dramatic flair to the role of William McNamara's psychotic daddy; Gary Busey is very chilling particularly in the tale of how his father introduced him to manhood. The movie is paced effectively and there is an ironic twist at the end (see my title for a hint). Not a bad entry in this kind of film, but we needed something a little stronger than ice t for this one!!!