Excellent but underrated film

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Surviving The Game is a great action movie inspired by the short story The Most Dangerous Game. The film is very similar to John Woo/JCVD flick Hard Target that was released a bit before this. Hard Target has more to offer as far as non stop action craziness, but in my opinion Surviving The Game is a better film. Ice T does a good job as the lead in the movie. He plays Mason, a homeless man who lives on the streets of Seattle. He gets a break (or so he thinks) by getting a gig as a survival guide for a hunting party of rich guys on vacation in the wooded mountains of The American Northwest. It ends up being a game of survival by a bunch of sociopaths where Ice T must utelize his street survival skills in the woods as he now is hunted for sport. This group of affleunt hunters is lead by by Rutger Hauer in one of his finest and most sinister performances. His tight bro and wingman, Charles S Dutton is impressive as well and is also rounded out by outstanding performances from Gary Busy and John C McGinley. The pace is quick, the locations look great, story and character development is solid and packed with action and memorable, great performances.

I fell in love with this film from the first time i saw it. I'm a massive Ice-T fan and it was the first film i'd ever seen him in. I thought he was great and i was rooting for him the whole way through the story. There are a few classic scenes e.g. Gary Busey telling Ice-T how he got his birthmark, and Ice-T has a few cheesy one-liners. All this makes the movie a cult classic for me. If you liked Hard Target, you'll love Surviving The Game. Okay, Ice-T is obviously not the greatest actor, but his performance here is actually very good. It's all meant to be a bit cheesy anyway! McGinlay, Dutton and especially Busey all did well with their reasonably small roles. Hauer is, as usual, brilliant. So if you like your guns, motorbikes, fights and trees... you're in luck. 10/10

There is not much good to say about this movie. The pretty much only thing I remember are the nice nature pictures. Everything else about this movie is plain bad or mediocre. The dialog is stupid and ridiculous at the same time. She story is silly and uninteresting. Not even the action scenes have been acceptable. They have been poorly directed: Often illogical and all the time boring. For example, during one action scene, the night turned into day within 2 seconds. The movie felt like a complete waste of time. - It wasn't even bad enough to be funny. Avoid this movie at all costs unless you are a fan of brain dead action movies.

It's amazing how people continue to turn out watchable remakes of "The Most Dangerous Game," but it's also easy to understand why. The idea that a pack of bored, rich psychos could make sport of killing another human being isn't just outlandishly fascinating...it's also completely believable, considering how many of these same people cavalierly dispose of other "human waste" through non-violent, but still brutal, forms of dispatch every day.The credit for making this particular version so intensely watchable has to be given to Ice-T's laconic yet realistic portrayal of Mason, a man with really nothing to lose. And those types of men are the ones you just don't mess with.The other half of the equation, the steadily dwindling gang of upper-crust nut-jobs, led by the always insane Rutger Hauer and his sadistic sidekick Charles Dutton, are sometimes cartoonish in their hatefulness, but this same quality makes them only that much riper for target practice.This is a version where the hunted is obviously much quicker than the hunters, and Ernest Dickerson paces the film deliberately, allowing us to figure out just how much smarter Mason is as we follow it along.There are times when it's a bit too cute and "Die Hard"-ish for its own good. There are also times when the editing seems choppy and haphazard, the lighting a bit too muddy. A few of the villains turn in unbelievably ham-fisted performances (F. Murry Abraham comes to mind) while others like Gary Busey deliver stone-cold readings of morbid anecdotes that will disturb you for days to come. But for an action flick, it will keep you more than engaged for 96 odd minutes, and that may be just what you're after, after all.