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Actors: Gary Busey, Ice-T, Rutger Hauer, F. Murray Abraham, Charles S. Dutton
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Surviving The Game |
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Ice-T as Rambo?! No so far-fetched in this vicious 1994 action drama in which six wealthy businessmen each pay $50,000 to participate in a “special” hunt in the Oregon wilderness. The trick is that they've researched and offered homeless but street-smart Jack Mason (Ice-T) into being their guide for $500 a week. But, the morning after they wine and dine him, he is awakened by these perverts, informed that HE is the hunted, and thrown outside with a brief head start. The fact that he is unarmed while they have SWAT-style weapons, motorbikes and wireless communication is part of their thrill. The first half of the film effectively develops Mason as hard not to like, especially when he conceives the first of many survival ideas. Busey and Hauer are chilling.
--Angry Jim Magin, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 70%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- game where people are hunted
Wilderness adventure
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- unemployed
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- very skinny (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Main Adversary
Identity:
- fight for survival
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Pacific NW
Mountains/Cliffs
Yes
Mountains:
- falling off
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- cave
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 4 ()
Kind of violence:
- mission to destroy something
- mental battles
- karate chop
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- flamed
- impaled
- perforation--bullets
- blunt clubbing (like seals)
Any profanity?
- A huge amnt of foul language
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding vehicles
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
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