
Jack Mason (Ice-T), who lives on the streets, wants to cease his life when on the same day his two best friends die: his dog and an older man with whom he shared his food and roof. Just in time, Walter Cole (Charles S. Dutton), from a charity organization, can prevent his suicide and also offers him a quite well-paid job as servant for a hunting party in the Rocky Mountains. Mason accepts the job and flies with them to a hut in the wilderness where they prepare everything for... (Full plot summary below)
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Jack Mason (Ice-T), who lives on the streets, wants to cease his life when on the same day his two best friends die: his dog and an older man with whom he shared his food and roof. Just in time, Walter Cole (Charles S. Dutton), from a charity organization, can prevent his suicide and also offers him a quite well-paid job as servant for a hunting party in the Rocky Mountains. Mason accepts the job and flies with them to a hut in the wilderness where they prepare everything for the four rich businessmen who want to hunt something special. Mason does not yet know that he is the victim of their sport that should lead to the basic insticts of man, but they did not count on his cleverness.
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| Flick FilosopherMaryAnn JohansonThis thoroughly absurd action flick that thinks it has some sort of social conscience, badly needs a what-the-heck-were-they-thinking smack upside the head to humble it. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrLatest Merchant Ivory production (produced with David Wolper) is a winner in spite of relatively modern look to the film. |
| San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannAn absorbing look at emotional tyranny, with a great screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanCool, assured, emotionally remote, Merchant Ivory's Surviving Picasso is never less than watchable, but it's also a cinematic paradox, a movie that works to capture Picasso from every angle yet somehow misses the fire in his belly. |
| The New York TimesJanet MaslinFreed from the slavishness of most authorized biography, the film makers try bold strokes. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranSurviving Picasso is quite well made and easy enough to watch, but it's not noticeably challenging or involving. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldThe movie breaks down into anecdotes that don't flow or build, and everything is narrated by the Gilot character. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesErnest TuckerErnest Dickerson, formerly Spike Lee's cinematographer, continues to show promise in the director's seat with this solidly made, well-acted survival thriller that is unfortunately limited by its overworked premise. |
| Washington PostRichard HarringtonDickerson keeps things moving along briskly and the ensemble manages to survive Eric Bernt's "script" (Connell gets no credit). As for the dreadlocked Ice-T, he avoids the rap trappings of his previous film roles and is generally effective in his survival schemes. |
| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.A film that shines mostly for the interesting performances by the cast of character actors. |