The Most Dangerous Game

As the classic short story, of shipwrecked sailors being hunted by a crazed tracker, became copyright free in 2019, it was only a matter of time before a low budget effort hit the screens. Sadly, this one is too low in budget and just doesn't have the ability to get the suspense onto the screen.

In this version of the story, men in a room, tell you they are on a ship (because it's not obvious), then wake up on a beach and discuss how their ship must have exploded and they've been swept ashore. There wasn't even the budget for a CGI or model ship. Seriously, they said, "We're on a ship," then we cut to them on a beach and they say, "our ship must have exploded." - That should tell you everything you need to know.

Overall, the acting is on the poor end and the thrills of the original story are completely absent here. However, the one stand out feature is Casper van Dien who is surprisingly charismatic. It's a hammy kind of role requiring a hammy kind of acting and he seems to understand what is expected; as a result he manages to carry the film whenever he's onscreen, (which isn't enough). I would not call it "good acting", but at least he manages to inject some life and personality into it.

There's a whole lot of talking (bad exposition, bad writing, bad acting, incomprehensible dialogue) for an action movie. A razzie is too good for this dreck. CT is the man, but he should stick to his day job. I recommend only as a drinking game, even if I haven't come up with the rules yet.

View at this first whole weekend of august 2022. A tv theatrical horrorthriller where marooned sailers are completely dry drifting onshore, where the story is silly and out of date and acting is weak, the production so amateurish, looking for the soundboomshadow at all interior shots, the 2 stars is given to bruce derns almost jumping out of his mouth teeth monolouges, and that the forest scenes are at a real location somewhere wet and cold, i guess oregon.

No this was an anticlimax, a postwar story gone ad undas, not even mr berringer can save this one. The grumpy old man does not recommend.

...and worse than I thought it would be with this cast, which made me think there was something new or good about it. Nope, no creativity, no story, no excitement. Casper has no German accent to offer and the script was as if written by a high school freshman. Avoid avoid avoid.

Even Judd Nelson was horrible.

And that guy C. T. was so bad I thought my eyes were bleeding. How anyone ever cast him in a movie is beyond me.

The story was a re-hash (or an attempt at a re-hash) of the old movie of the same name, but the sheer stupidity of this thing distanced itself from the original by thousands of miles.

Avoid this like the plague. It's really that bad.