Samuel L Jackson’s POTUS in this coming-of-age action adventure is unlike other American presidents we’ve seen before on celluloid. If Harrison Ford’s President James Marshall in Air Force One could take on an entire gang of thugs by his lonesome self, Jackson’s William Alan Moore doesn’t know how to throw a punch or fire a gun, he also disregards medical advice and eats cookies galore.
Big Game refers to the animal which a 13 year old Finnish redneck Oskari (Onni Tommila) is hunting on a lone survival hike in the wilderness (the film was shot on location in Germany’s Bavaria). It also alludes to Jackson’s cinematic hero (played tongue firmly in cheek), which an ideologically bankrupt, apolitical, irreligious, illegitimate West Asian named Hazar (Mehmet Kurtulus) wants to kill, stuff and mount.
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Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Ray Stevenson, Onni Tommila, Jim Broadbent, Ted Levine, Felicity Huffman, Mehmet Kurtulus, Victor Garber
Director: Jalmari Helander[/alert]
How did these disparate forces meet? As it happens, the presidential aircraft Air Force One is shot down by a terrorist gang led by the aforementioned illegitimate offspring of a wealthy Sheikh. The US Prez is the lone survivor. With the backstabbing villain (Ray Stevenson). Yeah, it’s an inside job orchestrated by fifth columnists inside the White House.
There (rather, the Pentagon and CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia) the top brass (including Felicity Huffman as CIA Director and Jim Broadbent as a security expert) attempt to rescue their Commander in chief. What rescue? The Seals are nowhere in sight and show up like our desi cops, hours later. Meaning, after the President’s earnest young guide rescues him after improbable plot twists and heart-stopping action. Not to be taken seriously, Big Game is hugely entertaining.
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