Apex

Apex

12/11/2021 1h 48m 5.2/10

Overview

Ex-cop Thomas Malone is serving a life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit. He is offered a chance at freedom if he can survive a deadly game of Apex, in which six hunters pay for the pleasure of hunting another human on a remote island. He accepts, and once he arrives, all hell breaks loose.

Director

Edward Drake

Top Billed Cast

Bruce Willis

Bruce Willis

Thomas Malone

Neal McDonough

Neal McDonough

Dr. Samuel Rainsford

Alexia Fast

Alexia Fast

West

Megan Peta Hill

Megan Peta Hill

Jeza

Corey Large

Corey Large

Carrion

Nels Lennarson

Nels Lennarson

Bishop

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

9/4/2022

3/10

Bruce Willis is "Stone". He used to be a cop before a miscarriage of justice saw him serving a life sentence for a crime he didn't commit. As luck would have it, though, "Rainsford" (Neal McDonough) and his sidekick "West" (Alexia Feast) are organising a lethal man-hunt on their remote island. They decide that "Stone" would make for an ideal target so offer him his freedom if he survives - and that's a big if. What now ensues is a truly awful hash of a film that sees him wandering about the forest in an hig-vis cardigan generating about as much menace as a day in an ice cream factory. The story has elements of the far superior "The Most Dangerous Game" (1942) but is just remarkably devoid of character. The dialogue is really puerile and, to be perfectly honest, I felt that they could all have been doing with being left on the island to slaughter each other without troubling the audience at all. What is Willis doing here? He cannot need the money? His laid back, slightly sarcastic style falls completely flay and McDonough - well perhaps someone could explain to me how this ultimate in one-dimensional actors still gets work? I think "Nadir" would have been a far better title for this - it really is for all concerned.

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