A light sprinkling of bitter social commentary coats this riff on that fail-safe Most Dangerous Game plot (previously done in Battle Royale, The Condemned, Hard Target, and King of the Hill amongst many others).
Pearson is a cheekily likeable as the resourceful Sean, offered a way out of his dead-end life by the slickly repitlian Alistair (Scott, carving off a thick slice of ham). If Sean can escape the clutches of Alistair and his partner (Mackenzie) for 12 hours, then he’ll win £12,000, enough to rescue his sister from the loan sharks.
But, as the game begins Sean quickly realises the stakes are much higher than money.
