The Most Dangerous Game (2022) User Reviews (19)

Ultra Low Budget

[fong_lee96 · 4/10 · 18 August 2022]

As the classic short story, of shipwrecked sailors being hunted by a crazed tracker, became copyright free in 2019, it was only a matter of time before a low budget effort hit the screens. Sadly, this one is too low in budget and just doesn't have the ability to get the suspense onto the screen.

In this version of the story, men in a room, tell you they are on a ship (because it's not obvious), then wake up on a beach and discuss how their ship must have exploded and they've been swept ashore. There wasn't even the budget for a CGI or model ship. Seriously, they said, "We're on a ship," then we cut to them on a beach and they say, "our ship must have exploded." - That should tell you everything you need to know.

Overall, the acting is on the poor end and the thrills of the original story are completely absent here. However, the one stand out feature is Casper van Dien who is surprisingly charismatic. It's a hammy kind of role requiring a hammy kind of acting and he seems to understand what is expected; as a result he manages to carry the film whenever he's onscreen, (which isn't enough). I would not call it "good acting", but at least he manages to inject some life and personality into it.

Fascinating premise, but a truly awful film

[matjusm · 2/10 · 8 August 2022]

I watched this film as I had recently re-watched the 1932 original, and found the story and premise to be a fascinating one.

The basic story is as it has always been: a group of people on their way to a hunting trip (in this case a father and his son) get stranded on a remote island after a shipwreck, where they meet a reclusive baron who hunts men for sport. The cast aways, along with some others who were stranded there before, of course become the target of the baron's latest hunt. So far pretty interesting right?

The first thought when I watched it was that it felt like a really cheap made for TV film. But on deeper reflection, that is giving it too much credit. The quality of this (in terms of acting, production values, script, direction) is more akin to the 'story' in an adult film where it seems like they did just one take to tick the box that yes they've done it and then move on to the next scene.

The film really feels like it was made for a high school film club, in terms of both a near non-existent budget and people who couldn't act if their life depended on it. The delivery of lines of dialogue, both what is said and how its said, is silly to the point of making me laugh. In fact the only redeeming quality in this film was that some of the stuff was so bad that it was funny. I have no idea how the director shot some of these scenes, watched the replay and then thought that "yes, that's a good piece of filmmaking, leave this in", and how the editor later on didn't die of laughter splicing this together.

The script also takes the viewer for a complete moron. The main character, played by Chris 'CT' Tamburello who's only claim to fame has been some reality TV shows, is a former soldier suffering from PTSD. You'd think mentioning this once would be enough? Not for the makers of this film who bring it up five or six times, plus numerous hilariously bad flashbacks to his time in the combat, just to make sure you didn't forget that he's a soldier during the c90 minute runtime.

In some ways, the badness of this film is reminescent of Tommy Wiseau's The Room with the occasional unintentional laugh. But while as that film was made with passion and heart (as misguided as it may have been), The Most Dangerous Game was both bad and done with no effort and no budget. Its not even good enough to laugh at how bad it is.

Truly a 2/10, watch the 1932 version of the story instead which is a really good film.

I have seen high school plays with better acting

[courtneyyounghans · 2/10 · 8 September 2022]

First let me say I love CT he is one of my favorite people.. this also had other big name actors and the acting was just terrible. Because of the other actors I am chalking this up to poor direction.. the idea behind the film is great just wish it wasn't so painful to watch. I would still watch something else with CT or the other cast just hoping they have better direction and maybe some acting lessons.

I did like the concept and the action was pretty good but even the fight scenes were rough to watch............................. .................................. Overall the only thing dangerous about the movie is the chance of falling asleep during it.

The worst acting I've ever seen... anywhere

[dongillette1 · 1/10 · 14 August 2022]

Even Judd Nelson was horrible.

And that guy C. T. was so bad I thought my eyes were bleeding. How anyone ever cast him in a movie is beyond me.

The story was a re-hash (or an attempt at a re-hash) of the old movie of the same name, but the sheer stupidity of this thing distanced itself from the original by thousands of miles.

Avoid this like the plague. It's really that bad.

Oh CT Noooooo

[ccantwell-98550 · 1/10 · 18 September 2022]

Oh CT I love you. I have waited for this movie as I am as long time fan of Surviving the Game. I expected so much. I expected so so much. For gods sake you have Judd Nelson. Bruce Dern and Tom Berenger. This movie should have been amazing. Again CT I adore you but this was complete trash and I can't even say any of you are acting as it's wooden and deplorable. I soldiered on and continued watching. My advice is unless you love CT. Do not watch this movie. You will never get that 90 minutes back again. Life is too short. This movie has been done so well before. I strongly recommend you watch Surviving the Game instead. Ice T is fantastic and Rutger Hauer menacing and they can act.

Not Much Good

[Tweetienator · 3/10 · 8 August 2022]

Well, there are some known actors in the game, but to be honest, that does not justifies watching this one: everything is just underachieving, boring, generic. My advice: just put Surviving the Game (Rutger Hauer), Hard Target (Van Damme) or the rather new Beyond the Reach (Michael Douglas) again on your screen and you are better served.

Painfully bad

[jeffjkeiser · 2/10 · 8 August 2022]

There's a whole lot of talking (bad exposition, bad writing, bad acting, incomprehensible dialogue) for an action movie. A razzie is too good for this dreck. CT is the man, but he should stick to his day job. I recommend only as a drinking game, even if I haven't come up with the rules yet.

As bad as you'd guess

[supermellowcali · 2/10 · 6 August 2022]

...and worse than I thought it would be with this cast, which made me think there was something new or good about it. Nope, no creativity, no story, no excitement. Casper has no German accent to offer and the script was as if written by a high school freshman. Avoid avoid avoid.

the most horrible...

[ops-52535 · 2/10 · 5 August 2022]

View at this first whole weekend of august 2022. A tv theatrical horrorthriller where marooned sailers are completely dry drifting onshore, where the story is silly and out of date and acting is weak, the production so amateurish, looking for the soundboomshadow at all interior shots, the 2 stars is given to bruce derns almost jumping out of his mouth teeth monolouges, and that the forest scenes are at a real location somewhere wet and cold, i guess oregon.

No this was an anticlimax, a postwar story gone ad undas, not even mr berringer can save this one. The grumpy old man does not recommend.

What was this?

[ragekitn · 1/10 · 6 August 2022]

Tbh, I was thinking if I ever saw a worse movie but I just can't come up with one. Just skip this, C movie, C acting, this is just bad. This one got a 6.6 rating when I started watching it but I am sure it's going to drop to a 2.

new and refreshing ideas

[Raymond_Marble · 10/10 · 6 August 2022]

With 'the most dangerous game' writer/director justin lee has proven that originality is not dead in modern filmmaking. Casper van dien's flawless german accent and ct tamburello's natural charisma draw the audience into a non-stop thrill ride through the darkest heart of man. Watch for cameos by bruce dern as the crypt keeper, tom berenger as a time travelling vietnam war veteran and judd nelson as a confused judd nelson. Five bags of popcorn.

Ach du lieber Gott

[staunton-gary · 3/10 · 11 January 2023]

Oh My God indeed. Yes, this movie was rubbish and low budget, apparently just under $220k. To keep the costs down, I think that Kevin Porter wasn't given a speaking part and his dialogue was the best part of the film.

I didn't recognise Tom Berenger (Dr Ben Colt), well done there. Judd Nelson (Marcus Rainsford) actually didn't look too well and looked stupid in an oversize shirt. He could pass as being related to Bruce Dern (Whitney Tyler).

Casper Van Dien (Baron Von Wolf) didn't break his character during the whole movie, I found it a bit weird that he had a picture of himself, in his hunting gear.

Overall, this movie sucks, the acting sucks, the set sucks, the effects suck. I'd recommend The Hunt (2020) instead, this I wouldn't.

Generic hunting movie

[burgif · 1/10 · 5 August 2022]

One of the most generic and wortless movie dealing with the subject of man hunt for thrill, if you want good thrill of the same genere go watch Hard Target Jean Claud Vandamme.

Better acting in adult films

[ligoccogil · 1/10 · 20 August 2022]

I couldn't even make it 30 minutes in.. i've seen better acting in late night movies ...... the acting is so bland.

You can tell it's low budget which makes me appreciate big budget movies more cause alot of the scenes in the first 30 minutes seemed like the "actors" forgot their lines and just rolled with what ever came out.

Only reason i watched as much as i did was cause of CT. Alot of it's not his fault that his acting is so bad. Like the opening scene where he wakes up from a dream... i blame the director for not cutting from his "wakeup" sooner which made it more obvious he cant act.

I'm going to try to power through and finish watching. Maybe Ct"s bad acting is just a result of the character he's playing and he's really good at acting ...

I fast forwarded it and it was still too long.

[gvis · 1/10 · 5 November 2023]

Ok, first of all I have never heard of this "CT" dude nor did I care to. I just watched this because I love the human prey type of movies and watching the original was not an option for me.

Well... this movie is bad. Like real bad.

The movie starts with the main protagonists on a ship, at least if the movie characters didn't tell you you wouldn't knbow. Yeah, even a budget for a CGI ship was too much. Fast forward and all of a sudden they are stranded on a remote island, without being shown what happened to the ship.

They come across this German villian (played by Casper van Dien, who shows why his career went nowhere) who invites them for dinner with a long boring conversation. Fast forward, they (main protagonists) are used as hunting prey. Despite being hunted they still find time for chatter and introducing themselves to each other. I was just rooting for them to be shot !!!

The rest is just endless talking and loitering around. No sign of being hunted or any type of excitement. Oh and what is up with all the WW 2 flashbacks all the time ? Yeah we get it, he's a traumatized veteran no need to show it millions of times.

I just fast forwarded it at the end, realizing this movie wouldn't get any better. Simply avoid.

Wasting of time

[matrix_kareem · 2/10 · 9 August 2022]

To be honest, I don't recommend it it's very boring plus the story wasn't good enough, I thought the name of this film related to the TV show that have the same name that's why I watched it, then I realized that it's totally different and I regret I spent my time on it :(

The Most Dangerous Game

[CinemaSerf · 4/10 · 9 August 2023]

Now I reckon the ghost of Leslie Banks would be spinning in his grave were he to see this really poor remake of what was originally quite a dark and menacing story. That role here is taken by Casper Van Dien who ostensibly comes to the rescue of a man and his son who are shipwrecked onto his island. Thing is, his charity isn't quite all it is cracked up to be and this becomes clear when the father and son "Marcus" (Judd Nelson) and "Sanger" (Chris Tamburello) find themselves out and about in this paradise. Not as tourists, but as prey for a lethal manhunt. Sadly, this really has very little to redeem it. It's adequately enough produced, but unfortunately the range of on-screen talent presented here is all well past it's use by date. Van Dien got away with it when he was young and fit; Judd Nelson when he was young with attitude and I'm never quite sure why Bruce Dern ever got away with it - but here they just take a seriously mediocre script and offer us a sterile and really quite uninteresting take on a story of life and death. It's an adaptation of a short story and, to be fair, they can be difficult to string out for ninety minutes. Also, still being fair, director Justin Lee had little idea how to do that imaginatively when he started, so maybe he just should't have bothered.

"My life has been one prolonged hunt."

[classicsoncall · 5/10 · 16 February 2023]

The actors are stiff, the dialog stilted, and the villain is a caricature. Nothing more to be said really about this latest version of "The Most Dangerous Game". With today's technology and current crop of seasoned actors, I don't understand why a film made in 2022 can't even meet the standard set by the original movie made ninety years ago in 1932! There have been many remakes of that picture, based on the 1924 short story by Richard Connell, including one called "Bloodlust" from 1961, the only other one I've seen. That one was unintentionally humorous because the four potential victims of the madman could have jumped him at any time while he was explaining the terms of the hunt to them. Come to think of it, Marcus Rainsford (Judd Nelson), his son Sanger (Chris 'C. T.' Tamburello), and Rex Alan (Randy Charach) could have done the same here if it weren't for that big goon Ivan (Kevin Porter), acting as bodyguard for former Nazi, Baron Carl Von Wolf (Casper Van Dien). Don't be misled by the cast list for this picture, even though Bruce Dern and Tom Berenger are in the story, they can't save it. In fact, it would have been nice if Dern's departure from the picture were given some kind of mention. You just have to assume he was killed in the explosion of the boat they were on, but for the amount of time he's been around as an actor, I think he deserved a better exit.

The movie kind of defies logic

[jordondave-28085 · 4/10 · 2 July 2023]

(2022) The Most Dangerous Game THRILLER

Like the umpteenth movie adaption of Richard Connell short story, which so far, the original version from 1932 starring Joel McCrae and Fay Ray is still the best one thus far. Co-written and directed by Justin Lee has boat capsizing with three passengers of renown author, Rex Alan (Randy Charach), a father named Marcus Rainsford (Judd Nelson) and his army marksman son, Sanger Rainsford (Chris 'C. T.' Tamburello) surviving marooned on the beach of an island. Seeking for other signs of life, they conveniently then stumble onto a game hunter, Carl Von Wolf (Casper Van Dien) who's really is a German baron and his big Russian buffoon, sidekick named Ivan who is supposedly be a mute. The next thing we know three people of Sanger Rainsford, adult brother, Quinlan (Edward Finlay) and his sister, Mary (Elissa Dowling) armed with nothing more than a hunting knife and bottled water, are given a three hour head start with only three days needed, before the baron and his sidekick hunt them down. Sanger also conveniently crosses paths with a doctor, Ben Colt (Tom Berenger) who has evaded being one of the barons victims.

The only thing I can give this movie credit for is the fact both actors of Judd Nelson and Tom Berenger are barely recognizable with their hey days of acting for a long time, as well the main baddie a slow painful death. Even by ignoring the poor acting, which is not really a factor for me, the movie defies logic, such as how the Baron is able to find them with no tracker dogs? Did he put a GPS tracker on them. How was the baron able to know which direction they were heading toward, as well as catch up to them so fast by taking the same steps as his captures does if they in fact got a three hour head start, in the forest mind you. There was also a scene when both the Baron and his sidekick Ivan get injured making a promise to get themselves fixed up from their original location before coming back out to hunt them again. Which means walking through the same forestry root with no elephants or horses or vehicle. Also, if Sanger served in the war, he should also be a good knife thrower or user to use the knife as a method, when he could have use something or someone as a decoy before he could come up from behind and use the knife on the baron's back- it was never even considered.