There are a total of nine hunters that Virgil is hosting but don’t worry, they aren’t hunting just two women Virgil has a cadre of scantily clad others stashed in a barn. He is either the owner of the island and/or the brains of the operation…I was never quite sure. Somewhere along the line we’re introduced to Virgil who is played by the legendary Mikey Rourke ( The Wrestler, 9 ½ Weeks, Sin City, Angel Heart, etc.) who appears dressed like someone’s Aunt Blanche from Las Vegas who doesn’t accept her age. We come to find out that means making it 24 hours without dying. Upon disembarking, we’re introduced to the other hunters including Teddy and Preston (Jason and Jeremy London, Dazed & Confused and Mallrats) and another tagalong girl, Lexi (Jessica Belkin, American Horror Story) who has come for the promise of $100,000 if she wins the hunt. The plot is telegraphed worse than the opening scene’s punches. Soon, Cassandra and the men she’s known for less than five minutes are on a boat to an island where this hunt is being held. Shockingly, when they invite her along, Cassandra accepts without hesitation as if what happened a year before hasn’t given her a few more street smarts. The older gentleman, Carter (Casper Van Dien of Starship Troopers fame), who dresses a bit like Boss Hogg from The Dukes of Hazzard, explains that he and his son, Jackson (Will Peltz, Unfriended) are on the way to Jackson’s first hunt where he is going to become a man.
Tessa storms out leaving Cassandra alone to join the two strange men for breakfast (seems safe).
I ask myself, is feminist exploitation a thing?įrom there, it just gets worse, but I hung in there for the sake of journalism.įast forward a year to Cassandra (Suvari) and her then-savior, now-girlfriend Tessa (Maya Stojan), walking into a diner and immediately getting into a fight because Cassandra looked toward a couple of men. They don’t get very far before a woman appears out of nowhere and singlehandedly fights off all the men with laughable choreography.
It opens on a drunk Mena Suvari ( American Beauty) who is stumbling out of a liquor store and trying to get into her truck when she is assaulted by a group of men. The cinematography is that of a low-budget porn film. Hell, even 1994’s Surviving the Game with Ice T and Rutger Hauer was better. It’s been done many times before and often far better – The Hunt from 2020 comes to mind. Hollywood seems to be obsessed with these types of movies – rich man organizes a game where other rich men literally hunt the poor who are there to due to the promise of more money than they’ve ever seen.
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