Big Game - starring Samuel L Jackson

cloud493

Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Onni Tommila, Ray Stevenson, Mehmet Kurtulus, Victor Garber, Ted Levine, Felicity Huffman and Jim Broadbent.

Synopsis: Oskari, a timid 13-year-old, anxiously awaits his fate. Tradition dictates that like his forefathers before him, the boy's time has come to spend one day and one night alone in t he wilderness. Armed with a bow and arrow, he must return with a prize to prove himself to be a man. Terrified and alone, he wanders through a vast and unforgiving forest when suddenly he hears a deafening rumbling sound. Racing to investigate, Oskari discovers an escape pod. Not just any escape pod - this pod belongs to Air Force One and the battered and bruised man lying before him is the President of the United States! In the skies above, terrorists are hurtling their way to the crash site hell-bent on kidnapping the President. Now the fate of the most powerful man in the world lies in the hands of a 13-year-old boy. Plunged into a deadly game of cat and mouse with only hours to spare, Oskari and the President must team up to survive the most extraordinary night of their lives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxGQz367T8g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IslS394SNw8

Man that looks kinda awesome.

cloud493

Man this sucked, I was so disappointed.

whiskeyman

cloud493 wrote: »

Man this sucked, I was so disappointed.

Is it that bad?
I'd usually never go see a big block buster in the cinema, but this seems to be almost the anti-blockbuster?
Anyone else enjoy this?
Seeing as it's mostly a Finnish production with a relatively low budget, I've heard and read some great reviews about for this?
I guess I'm still not expecting greatness, but some entertainment with a difference would be nice!
And sometimes you're just in the mood for a bit of Samuel L

Theboinkmaster

Looks awesome! Like snakes on a plane/Olympus has fallen kind of awesome

cloud493

Its not like, the worst movie ever made, or the worst I saw this year or this week even, just disappointingly bad.

Mr E

I kind of liked it. I've seen worse.

Seems to be targeted at teens - the subtitles aren't suitable for the really young, and the lack of violence or any real bite will alienate the adults. If they'd gone a little bit harder (some bad language other than the edited bad language from the trailer, and a few inventive kills), then it could have been elevated above average - the story wasn't bad, just a bit flat.

constitutionus

same here.

its got a weird kind of charm to it.

i think it helps that its really a coming of age story between the da and the kid at heart, and jackson isnt a "Bad ass" president ala olympus has fallen/white house down.

i kept trying to think of a quick way to describe it and for some reason all i can think of is "kiddie die hard in the woods"

its spectacularly dumb and cheesy in places but on the whole it works. i chomped the popcorn and laughed where i was supposed to

6/10.

not essential to see by any streatch of the imagination and i cant see me mates going to it , but better than i thought it'd be and would probably be a good film for da's to bring their 10yr olds to.

Sonderkommando

Went to this the other night, very poor film that as has already been mentioned failed to appeal to any particular audience, avoid.