Overview
When a man is offered a million dollars to play a game in which hunters try to kill him, he thinks he has found the perfect loophole: they can only attack when he’s alone. His only problem is that none of his friends or family believe the game is real.
My biggest problem with this movie (and probably the favorite part of the movie for someone else) is that I didn’t know how to watch it. I don’t now, maybe that was the point. The viewer has to decide if it is metaphorical, literal, or about mental illness. Now that I think about it, I think that was the point as the story intentionally takes the viewer down false paths in the last third of the movie. This movie had real potential, but this shell game felt rather gimmicky.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews Self Reliance
Movie title: Self Reliance
Movie description: When a man is offered a million dollars to play a game in which hunters try to kill him, he thinks he has found the perfect loophole: they can only attack when he’s alone. His only problem is that none of his friends or family believe the game is real.
Date published: 2024-02-09
Director(s): Jake Johnson
Actor(s): Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, Natalie Morales, Andy Samberg, Mary Holland, Emily Hampshire, Nancy Lenehan, Daryl J. Johnson, Miriam Flynn, Boban Marjanović, Biff Wiff, Eduardo Franco, Jeff Kober, Christopher Lloyd, Theo Wilson, Bjorn Johnson, John Hans Tester, Eric Edelstein, Ely Henry, Juan Carlos Jiménez, Ilia Volok, GaTa, Steven Littles, Tamra Brown, John Ponzio, Karen Maruyama, Sky Elobar, Gloria Sandoval, Makini Manu, Thomas Vu, Wayne Brady
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
My Review
My biggest problem with this movie (and probably the favorite part of the movie for someone else) is that I didn’t know how to watch it. I don’t now, maybe that was the point. The viewer has to decide if it is metaphorical, literal, or about mental illness. Now that I think about it, I think that was the point as the story intentionally takes the viewer down false paths in the last third of the movie. This movie had real potential, but this shell game felt rather gimmicky.
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My Review - 7/10
7/10