Fate of the most powerful man in the world lies in the hands of a 13-year-old boy Oskari, a timid young lad yearning to prove his capability to the village elders. Big Game – movie review
BIG GAME is about the young Oskari’s determination to prove to his Village folk that he has grown up, that he is a ‘man’ and can fend for himself in the wilderness of the forest.
In the village in Finland, the tradition dictates that like his forefathers before him, the boy’s time has come to spend one day and one night alone in the wilderness. Armed with only a bow and arrow, he must return with a prize to prove himself a man.
Though his village elders, possibly his father too doubt his ability, the young Oskari embarks on his first solo hunting expedition into the Finnish forests: a coming-of-age tradition among his people.
Terrified and alone, he wanders through a vast and unforgiving forest when suddenly he hears a deafening rumble. Racing to investigate, Oskari discovers an escape pod. Not just any escape pod – this pod belongs to Air Force One and the battered and bruised man lying before him is the President of the United States!
In the skies above, terrorists are hurtling their way to the crash site hell-bent on kidnapping the President of the USA (Samuel L. Jackson) and his security men are airborne on Air Force One which is en route to Helsinki.
Now the fate of the most powerful man in the world lies in the hands of a 13-year-old boy. Plunged into a deadly game of cat and mouse with only hours to spare, Oskari and the President of the USA (Samuel L. Jackson) must team up to survive the most extraordinary night of their lives.
It turns out that the Chief of Security Morris (Ray Stevenson) is involved in the kidnapping as the Air Force One is targeted by a group of mercenaries posing as big game hunters, led by Hazar (Mehmet Kurtulus) by a surface to air missile.
They bring down the plane, only to find out that the escape pod of the Air Force One is empty as the President has freed himself with the young boys help, who also guides him thru the dense forest, though the President was initially reluctant to follow this lad.
The group of mercenaries posing as big game hunters, led by Hazar (Mehmet Kurtulus) who brought down the Air Force One are aided by the President’s Chief of Security to locate the President.
They are outwitted by the shrewdness of the little boy who saved the President.
There are some moments of wisdom during the rest at night in the wilderness, where the Prez confides in the lad about his personal life and his shortcomings.
It is the courage and guts of the young lad which gives a glimmer of hope and even stimulates the President. The film is an adventurous depiction of how the young boy outwits the constant attacks on the President and how they fend themselves till the time the rescue arrives
It is the greatest certificate for Oskari when the President tells the lad’s father that Oskari is a great hunter and the bravest man he ever met.
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CAST:
President: SAMUEL L. JACKSON
Oskari: ONNI TOMMILA
Morris: RAY STEVENSON
Vice President: VICTOR GARBER
Hazar: MEHMET KURTULUS
General Underwood: TED LEVINE
CIA Director: FELICITY HUFFMAN
Herbert: JIM BROADBENT
CREDITS:
Production Company – a SUBZERO FILM ENTERTAINMENT.ALTITUDE FILM ENTERTAINMENT EGOLI TOSSELL FILM coproduction
In association with
VISIONPLUS FUND I, HEAD GEAR FILMS AND METROL TECHNOLOGY, FILM HOUSE GERMANY, BAVARIA FILM PARTNERS
Written and Directed: JALMARI HELANDER
Based on the original story by JALMARI HELANDER AND PETRI JOKIRANTA
Produced by PETRI JOKIRANTA
Producers – WILL CLARKE, ANDY MAYSON, JENS MEURER
Director of Photography: MIKA ORASMAA F.S.C.
Executive Producers – JARI TUOVINEN, PHIL HUNT, COMPTON ROSS, ALEX GARLAND, MIKE RUNAGALL, WALTER DONOHUE, CHRISTIAN ANGERMAYER, MARC HANSELL, MARKUS R. VOGELBACHER
Production Design: CHRISTIAN EISELE
Costume Design: MO VORWERCK
Editing: IIKKA HESSE
Sound Design: TIMO ANTTILA AND TUOMAS SEPPÄNEN
Music: JURI SEPPÄ AND MISKA SEPPÄ
Visual Effects: SCANLINE VFX
Big Game, movie review
