Surviving the Game (1994)
Dir, Ernest Dickerson
Starring Ice-T and Rutger Hauer
based on “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell
A man who lost his family and is now homeless is offered a way out of poverty by a group of wealthy hunters, three of whom work for the CIA, as a hunting guide at their remote lodge in the California wilderness. He discovers that he is the prey they intend to hunt. As they have with other homeless men.
Ever wonder what a Soviet made action film was like?
This is “Solo Voyage” also known as “The Detached Mission”. And it is the Russian response to jingoistic cinema like “Rambo” or “Red Dawn”? This is that film
This movie is about an American treasure hunter named Jack Harrison who joins forces with a team of Soviet Marines ( or Naval Infantry) in order to thwart a plot by the CIA and military industrialists who plan to launch a nuclear missile to frame the Soviets and disrupt a disarmament summit… and maybe even start World War III! But Harrison, Major Shatokin, and a brave team Soviet troops are determined to stop this conspiracy of the elite and save the world from nuclear war!
Sound familiar? Its just, you are more used to having the Russian and American roles reversed.
