need to look tough,” his Bill tells
young Oskari, demonstrating
the piercing gaze Jackson has
built his career on. It’s a long
time since I’ve enjoyed watching Jackson, but his subtle and
sweet performance here is a side
of the actor rarely glimpsed.
The spirit of ‘80s and ‘90s action cinema permeates Big
Game, and it’s easy to imagine
Helander and his mates crack-
ing open beer cans on a sofa
while watching Die Hard or First
Blood, but the movie it evokes
most for me is The Wizard of Oz,
with Tommila as a grubby-faced
Dorothy and Jackson as The Tin
Man, Scarecrow and Cowardly
Lion all rolled into one. If you’re
after an action movie with heart,
you could do a lot worse than
follow this yellow brick road.
Big Game
8/10
Directed by: Jalmari Helander
Starring:
Samuel L Jackson, Onni Tommila
Ray Stevenson, Victor Garber
Mehmet Kurtulus, Jim Broadbent
Ted Levine, Felicity Huffman
2015 - ISSUE 6
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