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Director John H. Parr also directed The Pin-Up Girl, Nightslave and Pursuit while writer Paul S. Rowlston did much of his career in TV. In this movie, four big game hunters end up getting bored with animals, so they start paintball hunting journalist Simon Rush (Todd Jensen) but come on, there's no way that that's going to be good enough either.

If four rich dudes offer you some money to be hunted while they carry paintball guns, I'm telling you right now to say no. Rush ends up beating them pretty easily and that's when the richest guy, Bob Jenkins (Andre Jacobs) tells everyone that they're switching to real guns. The others in the group, Alex (David Butler), Eric (Alan Granville) and Jason (Evan J. Klisser) have to just agree because they're all rich white guys and that's how they do murder business.

Or course, Rush is too busy romancing the girl who got him into all of this, Yvonne Pearl (Michelle Bestbier), all while the other members of the elite start getting killed off and he gets blamed for it. Oh man, The Most Dangerous Game, you know? Have you played it?

A low budget effort that takes it's cues from "The Most Dangerous Game" (itself not an expensive production). A handsome American journalist covering a war in conflict ridden Africa finds himself with zero resources. He does what most of us would do in this situation, and seeks out a nice cold bottle of beer. After meeting an attractive blond in a one oxen village watering hole he's invited by her husband to join their group on safari. Initially the pretty boy paperman is at ease, drinking the group's booze, eating their food, and putting the moves on his host's beautiful blond wife. "I'm good for it, my paper will re-reimburse any expenses" he claims. It isn't long before the group makes the journalist a proposition, to allow himself to be hunted with paint-ball guns. He agrees and of course you can see where this is headed.

Showing himself to be more capable than his paint-ball pursuers the paperman starts talking trash each time the hunters are within earshot. Well, apparently the studly paperman's advances towards his wife were not a problem, but the trash talking, well that's another matter altogether and it proves too much for the group's leader. He produces a Colt 45 handgun and with little effort convinces the others in the party to engage in some good old fashioned people hunting. I guess they were equally annoyed by the cocky newsman's taunts.

Well that's the set-up for what proves to be a rather mediocre film, mainly due to execution. The performances are uniformly fair. The storyline, always a favorite, is a good also, though dialog is standard fare. The main problem seems to be the mundane direction which results in lack of suspense. The action is weakly staged leaving the film with little excitement. The film could perhaps have benefited from a different director calling the shots.

(1990) Prey of the Hunter THRILLER

It has American reporter of the war, Simon Rush (Todd Jensen) losing all his ID during his stay in some African desert, and has no way of contacting and returning back to NY. Upon him going into a pub, he then meets a lady, Yvonne (Michelle Bestbier) who says she could help him get contact or get back, and introduces him to her two uncle business friends of Bob Jenkins (Andre Jacobs), Eric De Pont (Alan Granville), and two young associates trying to get a deal, Alex Lee (David Butler) and Jason Taylor or Jay for short ( (Evan J. Klisser). Except that Bob wants Simon to participate in a little paintball game four against one, and he accepts providing he gets a paintball gun too. And when things was not going Bob's way, he then whips out a beratta and aims to kill him with it. And when Bob manages to manipulate and concoct the the entire scenario involving Simon and the entire game altogether, at midnight he manages to grab himself a rifle in the process. What is asinine about the entire scenario is that at first, it appears that upon Simon taking the rifle, at first, it looked like he knocked out Eric Du Pont by using the butt end of the rifle, but then it is like he is later been discovered with his throat slashed. What is dumb about the entire scenario is that viewers had already figured out that it was Bob who was doing this as well as shot Jay's best friend Eric on the back way before the character's themselves. Ending this dumb movie that is similar to the much superior 1980 movie "The Long Good Friday". One of many poor adaptions of the 1932 movie "The Most Dangerous Game" with an unconvincing twist.