The Most Dangerous Game

Rating: 6/10 (7 May 2020)

The chase has been with us as long as celluloid; and this particular storyline dates back at least as far as 'The Most Dangerous Game' eighty years earlier; which clocked in at just 63 minutes. Since then several 'Star Trek' episodes have used the basic situation and a teenaged element had recently been contributed by 'Battle Royale'. The costumes of the affluent seem to have been inspired by Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil' (while Woody Harrelson appears to have have been given a makeover by the same hairdresser and beautician as Klaus Kinski on 'For a Few Dollars More').
Set against an incongruously serene woodland backdrop; the constant use throughout of whip pans and wobbly steadicam photography already looks as dated as the excessive use of zooms during the early seventies now does. And I can't have been the first to ask where all the cameras are that are supposedly being employed to televise this...?