Turkey Shoot

This is one of the best awfully bad movies I've ever seen.

Turkey Shoot.....Live with Gravy.

Dominic Purcell is about as active and charismatic as Michael Madsen after drinking a dozen bottles of whisky and being hit over the head with a baseball bat.

He's such a terrible actor, I doubt he's ever been in a decent film in his life. The rest of the cast weren't much better. It was an Australian film after all and it must have cost about 300 dollars to make this crap.

The narrative (Running Man) was based on a tv show that stuck a few out of work Aussie actors into a killing game to try and escape some highly trained 3rd rate actors from dishing out death to Percell and his team mates.

The story has a real cheesy line and runs on an almost clueless direction. Purcell's contribution adds to the stupidity of the storyline.

Have no idea why the rating is so low on this. Maybe there comparing to the original too much. It's mediocre with a classic top plot. It's really between a 5 and a 7 depending on your demand of perfection.

7.4 of 10. While not equivalent or parallel to the Hunger Games (it's something that could easily be happening now as opposed to sometime in the future), it does involve a reality TV game show with what modern society considers attractive media personalities where the participants are being hunted by each other, aka an "Elimination Game", all in a world where war is being heavily promoted and the show's primary heroes are vets.

The cast works well. Nobody seems obviously out of place. Available technology also is believable for a parallel Earth type of fiction.

Fortunately, it's not a film trying to setup sequels. It functions and wraps up nicely as a single, complete film. Unfortunately, there's a little too much equivalent of pro wrestling bullet dodging and inexhaustible bullet supplies at times.

The original Turkey Shoot is a fun Ozploitation film that rattles along at a fair pace and never seems to take itself too seriously. This remake is a po-faced turgid mess that is so badly directed even Uwe Boll would shake his head in disgust. Dominic Purcell can be good in the right role, but in this he looks downright ashamed to be here. And I don't blame him. The guy clearly needs a better agent. Long story short, he plays a wrongly convicted war criminal that is entered into a Running Man style TV show where he has 90 minutes to get to a destination whilst avoiding various assassins. And trust me that sounds far more exciting than it actually is. The film is a mess. The camera work is appalling, the direction is laughable, the script is infantile and there are huge chunks of narrative presumably missing. The action is badly filmed and choreographed, the characters are mere outlines and the acting ranges from poor to middling. Purcell himself seems half asleep. Not even worth a watch for curious fans of the original. Avoid like the plague.

With so many potholes in the plot, goofs, and flaky action scenes it's hard to imagine this movie takes itself seriously. If you also don't, you will see an almost campy movie, a parody on the genre, with some clear critisism on American culture & imperialism - nothing new under the sun here. Question is, did the makers also intended all this or did they have a different movie in mind?