Rent Surviving the Game (1994)

Busey at best and cool as Ice! - Surviving the Game review by CP Customer

Take one homeless guy, give him a job and accomodation and he'll do anything for you right? WRONG. This is busey at his best, mean mad and moody. A classic tale of the hunter becoming the hunted. Led to believe he has a new job as a hunting guide, Ice T , becomes...well the hunted.. who wins well get this film and watch it it is superb.

Trashy fun - Surviving the Game review by AER

How I miss 90s mid-level action movies like this. This was DTV in the UK, but I was keen to see it because of it's great cast of b-movie villains - Rutger Hauer, Gary Busey, F Murrray Abraham, Charles S Dutton. This was during the wonderful time in Hollywood when Ice T was a leading man for a few years! Following so closely after John Woo's / Jean Claude Van Damme's Hard Target (which is based loosely on the same story THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME) this could be seen as repetitive, but the focus is closer than the JCVD version and just as much fun. Basically, rich guys trick a homeless person into being hunted in the wilderness, but the baddies pick the wrong guy. For once Ice T isn't a former Navy SEAL or SAS, he's merely an ex-janitor with a survival instinct and a lot of luck. It's corny, trashy but the acting is good and the cast interesting. I miss Rutger Hauer RIP.

Far from perfect but it's the kind of 90s flick I miss - all the action films in Hollywood now are huge scale and Jason Statham is the only one who gets to make films like this anymore....