Turkey Shoot

This movie gave me a migraine as you will see every single plot turn coming your way. Filmed with what I assume a low budget; rip off of The Hunger Games, Hostel, Death Race, and MANY more (excellent films comparatively). It is a run of the mill "fight for your life because you're actually innocent" plot. It's a real shame seeing Dominic Purcell go from a great actor in many fabulous films / television shows, to this cruddy script. You can do SO much better as you've proved time and again in the past.

I'm left wishing I had read the reviews prior to watching this, would have saved me a hour of thinking "What the heck were they thinking?"

Do yourself a favor and do not bother with this low- budget inferior boring movie.

(2014) Turkey Shoot ACTION SCIENCE-FICTION

Although it's a remake of the 1981 movie called "Escape 2000" it looks more like a low budget equivalent of "The Running Man" released in 1987 and "The World's Most Dangerous Game" with a splash of the Jason Bourne movies. The movie centers on Navy Seals, Rick Tyler (Dominic Purcell) caught as a scapegoat to start up a war in Africa. That his life would be concocted for others to believe that he senselessly massacred a bunch of women and children. Just so, he can participate in a deadly game show so that selected contestants can hunt him for the entire world to see.

One of the worse looking spectacles ever, both Roger Cormon and Ed Wood would have been proud of them.

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.

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?

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.