Turkey Shoot Reviews

Navy SEAL Rick (Dominic Purcell) is pulled to star in “Turkey Shoot,” a to-the-death game show where he gonna be hunted by some of the world’s most ruthless killers. He projects a square-headed machismo, keeps his mouth shut, and kills people without a blink, slaughtering rival contestants with names like Golgotha , Alpha, Haakon and Armageddon. He even kills Navy SEALs real good.The combats with Alpha and Haakon deserved more detailed scenes, so u cud watch all the brutality on them. Alpha studs like those muscled and raw enemies deserved to be filmed in agonizing throes, with shattered bones and bleeding mouths! Take that Haakon mercenary (Ian Roberts), in leather biker pants, combat boots and shirtless, exposing powerful muscles. He get into a wild fight with Purcell, in obvious bloodlust moaning battle. But Purcell turn the tables and finish the bastard pummeling his skull to pulp with a hammer! U can see his body arched in agony struggle, those bulging leather jeans in bursting ... ! Or Alpha (Rick Tonna) , the beheaded warrior. We shud see better his agony and his struggle to get free. Or even the decimated SEALS, shud be something like the shower room scene on The Rock movie. Only that way we cud talk about a testosterone fueled action movie !

Initial Thought: I don't really have much reason to why I am watching this. Pretty much the only things of interest here are Viva Bianca and that it sounds like a crazy future prison movie. Other than that I honestly don't care for it.

Characters/Acting: I used to like Dominic Purcell until he ruined Dracula for me and ended up constantly as one of Uwe Boll's right hands. The only person here of any interest to me is the beautiful Spartacus actress Viva Bianca. Two actors (Roger Ward and Carmen Duncan) from the original film this is remade from return for this remake. Switch from The Matrix is here, but she looks way different without short blonde hair and 16 years added to her looks. I thought the killers were interesting and cool to look at. Haaken, Armageddon, and Kintay were the coolest of the assassins in my opinion.

Story: Surprisingly or maybe not this happens to be a remake. So basically after a civilian massacre in a war zone a Navy Seal is thrown in a maximum security prison for the military. He gets the opportunity for freedom and find out why he was set up if he can take down ruthless killers in dangerous locations. It doesn't sound all that original of course. This is pretty low budget with most of what they had going to the gore and action. So some of the action is a bit lackluster given that is where most of the budge is at. Also there is only actually one scene with gore that is shown a few times. Oh man is this pretty cheesy with the way everything is dealt with. One thing in particular is the absolute repetitiveness of the guy announcing the show. It was pretty cool that they had the original film playing on the television. The twist was quite obvious here. The ending was cringe worthy.

Directing/Writing: I haven't seen a single film of Jon Hewitt, but I have heard of X. He writes and directs all of his films. Holy crap the co-writer here is Switch from The Matrix! Not only does she help write this she is also a major character here. Oh man they stole lines from other famous movies flat out! I really hope they got permission or that is just mad disrespectful. Some of the shots they do throughout look like they glitch. I'm not sure if it's just poor editing or the director think it was a neat gimmick.

Final Thought: Now that was pretty bad. I mean the war message seemed like something that would happen. Everything else here is so cliche and boring. The action was a waste of time. I was expecting a little bit more than what was given with that. It had so many lame gimmicks. The only thing about this that had any redeemable quality was Viva Bianca. Nothing saves this movie from crap though. Avoid this one for sure. It totally isn't worth the time.