The latest chapter in the Bother’s Bar Film Club is Most Dangerous Game, which I had only recently discovered was a fifteen part Quibi series which has been omnibussed and can currently be seen on Amazon Prime as a two-hour film.
In it, Liam Hemsworth, loser, is persuaded by Damon Killian (played by Christoph Waltz) to go on the run in a deadly game of cat and mouse around Detroit. He earns increasing amounts of money for every hour he stays alive, mainly for his wife and unborn child who have no idea what’s going on, but he can escape the game if he can survive twenty-four hours. There are five stalkers hunters after him, each with extremely one-dimensional character traits.
To be honest most of the plot points you can see from miles away and the script and the acting is largely pretty ropey, but there is fun to be had here in some of the set-ups and ideas which I shan’t spoil. Quite impressively for something that’s been put together from fifteen episodes of A Thing the joins are pretty well hidden – certainly nothing wrong with the pacing, and it doesn’t just feel like 15 vignettes stitched together.
If you’ve got Prime I think many of you reading this will basically enjoy it if not be blown away by it. Perhaps you would be interested in the 1920 short story by Richard Cornell it is loosely based on, and indeed seems to be the genesis for a lot of fiction where people get hunted for sport.
Edit: Right, there’s a 2022 version of the 1934 film coming out next month and it stars CT off of The Challenge.
Heads up: it’s Robbo’s final Countdown this afternoon.