Synopsis
A high-rolling corporate shark and his impoverished young guide play the most dangerous game during a hunting trip in the Mojave Desert.
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Cast
- Michael DouglasMadec
- Jeremy IrvineBen
- Hanna Mangan LawrenceLaina
- Ronny CoxSheriff Robb
- Martin PalmerCharlie (uncredited)
- Patricia BethuneSecretary
- David GarverBen's Father (uncredited)
Recommendations
- 50
The Playlist
For a movie that rides on a well-executed, modest and at times playful B-movie engine, the film stumbles in its final third, with goofy plotting... and a turn from the subdued to the hysterical. - 50
Movie Nation
The folks re-adapting White’s book for Beyond the Reach tamper and tinker with perfection — a little overly convenient cheating here, a contrived finale that goes wrong and then goes more wrong. The film staggers under these blows and never really recovers. - 50
Observer
The formulaic cat-and-mouse game played to the death rattle by Michael Douglas’ rich, vicious corporate maniac and Jeremy Irvine’s nice, clean-cut, homespun country boy in Beyond the Reach is so old it’s hairy. - 40
Village Voice
Madec and Ben's showdown becomes a battle to see which type of man is best equipped for survival: the well-funded scoundrel or the honest grunt. The film is too honest itself to always give us the answer we want. It's also too dully on-the-nose to entertain. - 40
Arizona Republic
Beyond the Reach is a misfire, one of those movies that never quite rises to the level of guilty pleasure. - 40
The Dissolve
The film leans heavily on well-trod “most dangerous game” territory, but the insistence on inscrutable characters and cheap twists never lets it feel actually dangerous. It just feels vacuous. - 37
Washington Post
There are goofy, primal pleasures to be had in the first two-thirds of the film. But Beyond the Reach exceeds even its humble grasp in the final act, collapsing in a clatter of blockheaded manhunter-movie cliches. Crazy is one thing, but dumb is unforgivable. - 25
Slant Magazine
If all a movie needed was a boy with abs and a gun (or slingshot), then Beyond the Reach would be a masterpiece.
