Synopsis
A homeless man is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in the mountains, unaware that they are killers who hunt humans for sport, and that he is their new prey.
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Cast
- Ice-TJack Mason
- Rutger HauerThomas Burns
- Charles S. DuttonWalter Cole
- Gary BuseyDoc Hawkins
- John C. McGinleyJohn Griffin
- F. Murray AbrahamWolfe Sr.
- William McNamaraWolfe Jr.
- Jeff CoreyHank
- Bob MinorSecurity Guard
- George FisherTaxi Driver
Recommendations
- 63
Washington Post
Dickerson keeps things moving along briskly and the ensemble manages to survive Eric Bernt's "script" (Connell gets no credit). As for the dreadlocked Ice-T, he avoids the rap trappings of his previous film roles and is generally effective in his survival schemes. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
Ice-T's streetwise humor saves this from an exercise in silliness. [16 Apr 1994, p.24] - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
Instead of building in impact, the film feels smaller as the cast dwindles. You get the feeling that the most important actors are getting killed first, so that they can go off to act in better movies. [20 Apr 1994, p.E5] - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Ernest Dickerson, formerly Spike Lee's cinematographer, continues to show promise in the director's seat with this solidly made, well-acted survival thriller that is unfortunately limited by its overworked premise. - 50
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Despite a solid cast and a few interesting visual moments, Surviving the Game is just a routine action picture. [21 Apr 1994, p.5G] - 42
Entertainment Weekly
Essentially, the movie is Cliffhanger with one third the firepower. Ice-T, looking like a depressed lion in his thick Rasta braids, remains a charismatic camera subject, though he’s too much the snaggletoothed urban runt to make a convincing action dynamo. - 40
Austin Chronicle
As out-of-whack and sophomoric as all this is, the movie sustains a rudimentary action interest. - 40
The New York Times
This film is quite literally lost in the wilderness, with an intermittent, picturesque prettiness that doesn't suit the action at all. More damagingly, Mr. Dickerson does nothing to keep his cast from chewing up the mountain scenery. [16 Apr 1994, p.11]
