Wonderful character development!

terrible... so disappointed.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I liked this movie very much! They should make more of them. Not only for the idea of a hunted man who is given the opportunity to survive the game by giving him a head start. What I especially like is the humour which is put in almost every scene. I guess it was done intentionally, but I'm not sure.. I laughed throughout the whole movie. The characters and dialogs are all over the top, but not in that matter that it;s not believable anymore.Rutger says to Mason: How many cigarettes do you smoke a day? Mason: As many as I can get my hands on. Rutger: then you are not suited for the vacancy, we need a fit person. If you can run on the mill for 30 minutes you get 20 dollars. Mason start to run and gets 20 dollars and has the job. The last supper in the wooden house in the forest is absolutely hilarious. The father who wants to make his son a man by taking him on a manhunt, great humour!

"Surviving the game" is a movie based on story that by today's standards is very cliché. It was done before (for example : "The Most dangerous game " , "The Running man") it appears today ("The Hunger games") and probably will appear in the future . It's a classic story like a bank robbery or mysterious man from nowhere saves the city . The audience already knows what to expect from this kind of movie. I'm not saying it's a bad thing . In good hands you can make a good movie from unoriginal story. "STG" is somewhere in the middle in terms of quality.There is some impressive cast for a B-class movie : Ice T (famous raper, well maybe not now , but in the past) Rutger Hauer ("Blade runner") , Charles Dutton ("Alien 3") , Gary Busey ("Lethal weapon") and F. Murray Abraham ("Amadeus") . It isn't strange to see Hauer in a B-class movie ( sadly , most of his movies are that) , but to have such interesting bunch of actors in one movie is certainly a rare treat for movie lovers . None of them shows here anything really memorable , but they did a decent job. The story is rather obvious from start to finish. Thankfully it's never boring .The movie itself is a decent popcorn flick . Not a bad way to spend your time . There is nothing you haven't seen here that wasn't done before and better . Still , I was quite entertained for hour and half , and after all I could spend my time in much more painful way watching some crap movie . I give it 3/10.

In one of our local video store chains, if a movie was considered morally objectionable it was emblazoned with a huge yellow sticker which proclaimed that it was 'Strictly over 18's'. To me, as a youngster, this was like showing a light bulb to a moth. By the time 'Surviving the Game' was released, I was already a seasoned Ice-T and Bodycount fan and so would happily devour any of the nonsensical films which he would associate himself with (a trait which still exists to a certain degree, albeit somewhat diminished at this stage – thanks a lot 'Leprechaun In Da Hood'). Those yellow stickers never failed me; they drew me to movies such as the Tom Savini remake of Night of the Living Dead (1990), Body Melt (1993) and Bad Taste (1987). The peculiar thing about 'Surviving the Game' was that it was only classified with a 15 certificate in the UK, but as I was growing up in Ireland and they had just introduced their own film classification system (one which still prohibits the release of many, many titles today*) one can only assume that they were being extra vigilant.Such vigilance, however, was not displayed by any staff members at any of my frequented VHS rental outlets and so I was pretty much free to choose whatever I wanted and on one fine day I took the afternoon off school and retreated to my abode to wallow in some Ice-T based goodness.I regret none of those actions and this all came flooding back when I re-watched STG last week. The first thing that struck me was the plethora of character actors on show, Charles S. Dutton, Ernest R. Dickerson, F. Murray Abraham, Gary Busey, Jack Mason, John C. 'Dr Cox' McGinley and Rutger Hauer all come out in force as a group of hunters in pursuit of the deadliest game of all…man.The man in question is Jack Mason (Ice-T) a man battling his demons to the extent that he has lost everything, his wife, his child, his home. Now living rough on the streets of Seattle, he even loses his best friend when his dog is run over by a careless taxi driver in the first few minutes of the movie. The altercation with the driver brings Mason to the attention of Walter Cole (Dutton), a man posing as a charity worker, but who is in reality a recruitment officer for Thomas Burns (Hauer), an entrepreneur who facilitates the immoral bloodlusts of the rich and ethically vacuous Mason is brought to Burns' offices whereupon he is offered a job (with very little details provided), he reluctantly accepts and before he knows it, he's held up in a remote cabin in the wilderness with half a dozen of the most peculiar characters you're likely to see share a dinner together. It doesn't take long before their motives are made clear and Mason is cast out on his own, given a small head start before being tracked by the hunters.Guess what? The hunters soon become the hunted and the tables get well and truly turned. OK, so it sounds dreadful and in many ways, it is. Yet, it is so enjoyably dreadful that you soon find yourself letting go and immersing yourself in Mason's plight. There is an intensity and a unique self-awareness which makes this stand out from similar movies and eventually, this makes this a remarkably endearing viewing experience.It's violent without being excessively so, it has just the right amount of humour to maintain a suspension of disbelief and by the time comeuppance is delivered, you'll be cheering along. It was refreshing to see a strong African-American lead actor at the time and whist one wouldn't go as far as to call it ground-breaking in any sense of the word, that fact is certainly notable. Ice-T is quite far removed from his hip-hop persona and suits the crusty, dreadlocked role very well. Hauer and Busey are typically and wonderfully bonkers and the support of Abraham and McGinley are both worthy additions.It was a pleasure to be reminded of a time when action movies could be so enjoyable and when character actors would partake in the movie without dominating it. Admittedly, the rush that I got for simply acquiring it wasn't there this time, but I think that was due to the lack of the yellow sticker.Read more reviews at zombiehamster.com

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.