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.

...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.

Well, there are some known actors in the game, but to be honest, that does not justifies watching this one: everything is just underachieving, boring, generic. My advice: just put Surviving the Game (Rutger Hauer), Hard Target (Van Damme) or the rather new Beyond the Reach (Michael Douglas) again on your screen and you are better served.

First let me say I love CT he is one of my favorite people.. this also had other big name actors and the acting was just terrible. Because of the other actors I am chalking this up to poor direction.. the idea behind the film is great just wish it wasn't so painful to watch. I would still watch something else with CT or the other cast just hoping they have better direction and maybe some acting lessons.

I did like the concept and the action was pretty good but even the fight scenes were rough to watch............................. .................................. Overall the only thing dangerous about the movie is the chance of falling asleep during it.