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Surviving the Game

starring: Rutger Hauer, Ice-T, Charles S. Dutton, Gary Busey, F. Murray Abraham
directed by: Ernest R. Dickerson

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780628427
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 078062842X
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 21, 1999
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 19813
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 15, 1994



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Description:
A homeless man, recruited as a guide by a band of wealthy hunters, winds up the hunted instead. Starring Ice-T, Rutger Hauer and Gary Busey.

Amazon.com:
One more time around for the storyline of The Most Dangerous Game, except this one's refitted with explosions, big guns, and a flood of testosterone. Ice-T plays Mason, a homeless man shanghaied from the streets of Los Angeles to work as a guide and all-around man Friday for a hunting party. What the down-on-his-luck fellow soon finds out is that he is the quarry, and has to rely on his own resourcefulness to stay one step ahead of his tormentors. Laden with atrocious dialogue and narrative implausibilities, this is still a fun action movie if seen only for its own merits and nothing more. The fine cast (Gary Busey, Charles Dutton, F. Murray Abraham, John C. McGinley) chews the script until practically frothing at the mouth while trying to out-maniac each other. Busey is the head macho lunatic, but the twitchy McGinley nearly steals the show as he turns the knob on the weirdo meter up to eleven, then breaks it off and throws it away. Ice-T, on the other hand, puts his coping skills to the test as the hapless human prey. Most of director Ernest R. Dickerson's resumé has consisted of cinematography work (for Spike Lee, among others), and it shows with the film's competent, almost glossy look. Don't watch Surviving the Game expecting any great statements or overarching agendas, and you'll be surprised by an untentionally goofy action picture with preposterous situations and wide-open-throttle performances. Plus, chances are you've never seen a foot-wide pine tree chopped down with a shotgun (we kid you not). --Jerry Renshaw



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Underrated movie!
This is a great action movie that is quite underrated; Ice-T turns in a fine performance as a down ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Ice-T's Best Performance!
For those of you that don't know, Ice T is a really good actor.

This movie is a classic. ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Intense and action-packed modern-day "The Most Dangerous Game"
This film is basically a modern retelling of the old short story "The Most Dangerous Game"; for those unfamiliar ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - GREAT ACTION
ALTHOUGH THE LANGUAGE WAS PRETTY ROUGH IN PLACES, MY HUSBAND & I LIKE THIS VERSION BEST OF THE MOVIES BASED ON ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - SURVIVING THE GAME
Surviving the Game
MY MOTHERS AND MINE FAVORITE MOVIE. WHEN WE ARE DOWN WE WATCH THIS GREAT MOVIE ABOUT A ... Read More

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