Big Game (2014)

Big Game: Directed by Jalmari Helander. With Samuel L. Jackson, Onni Tommila, Ray Stevenson, Victor Garber. A young teenager camping in the woods helps rescue the President of the United States when Air Force One is shot down near his campsite.

“Now I rather enjoyed this… OK, so it isnu0026#39;t going to trouble an Academy jury anywhere, but it is a good end-to-end action movie with bows and arrows – but not a sign of Robin Hood! Samuel L. Jackson is the President onboard Air Force One when it is attacked by a missile. He is bundled into his escape pod and lands in the midst of what turns out to be a Finnish forest. Meantime a local young lad is being trained by his father to be a hunter and so when he stumbles upon, and releases the President, they – together – have to try and find their way to a phone. Of course it isnu0026#39;t that simple – the President is being hunted; rather preposterously – like big game – by a Russian millionaire lunatic who is aided by a disaffected Secret Service agent who set the whole thing up in the first place (not a spoiler – we discover that very, very early on). The two now have to stay one step ahead of their pursuers with the help of the aforementioned bow and arrow, a shoe and an old fridge complete with some frozen venison. Itu0026#39;s daft, with some really naff CGI – but Onni Tommila (u0026quot;Oskariu0026quot;) the young lad and SLJ gel well together, the latter is on good form with some quite witty one-liners and joyous facial expressions as I think even he realises just how silly this all is… Great fun, though – and Iu0026#39;d recommend if youu0026#39;ve got ninety minutes to spare, and no particularly high expectations…”