Jalmari Helander
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Those expecting a presidential action romp along the lines of White House Down, Olympus Has Fallen or even Air Force One will be disappointed as this is far more of a family-friendly adventure.
It's more that this is so clearly his world, and these characters out of a fourth-rate White House Down ripoff can't help but seem trivial in comparison.
And although the absurdly high concept for Big Game conjures over the top images along the same lines of the similarly ludicrous White House Down, Jalmari Helander lets his characters talk to each other.
Finally, a movie for everyone who got a charge out of the slick presidential jeopardy of “White House Down” and “Olympus Has Fallen,” but lamented that they weren’t really suitable for family viewing.
Big Game feels like it’s aimed right at recent “presidency in peril” movies like White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen, brawny, dopey productions meant to recall the glory days of ’80s action iconography.
Helander cites 80s action and rites-of-passage movies as an inspiration (he was aiming for Die Hard meets The Karate Kid, apparently), but there’s a touch of Airport 1975 about the proceedings, which may not be entirely parodic.
At one point, Oskari transports a blanket-shrouded POTUS on his quad bike (surely a nod to E.T. ), while the downed Air Force One blazing through the trees recalls the train wreck in J.J. Abrams’ own love letter to The Beard, Super 8 .
Krampus (2015)
Directed by Michael Dougherty
influenced by Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)
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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale was a charming, witty and inventive Finnish movie from 2010 about an evil Santa Claus terrorising an isolated but resourceful rural family.
Violent Night, Sisu, and Nobody have all proved that audiences will always root for the implausible badass with right on their side, and that’s true again in Love Hurts.
Bale, of course, is notorious for dropping weight in such films as Rescue Dawn and The Machinist, so hanging with the aces of base (they're portrayed as Cambodian) and jumping out of a second-story window onto a pile of garbage is nothing for him.
Predator: Badlands (2025)
Directed by Dan Trachtenberg
influenced by Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025)
Plot
The presence of automatic weapons and ejector seats doesn't make this any less of a fable than Sisu: Road To Revenge, though qualitatively more fabulous. They're both action packed sequels, set-pieces with desperate struggles, long journeys, significant objects, even uncaring organisations in opposition.
In a nice change, Moore’s staff, including terrorist expert Herbert (Jim Broadbent, Cloud Atlas ), the CIA director (Felicity Huffman) and Gen. Underwood (Ted Levine) are surprisingly competent and not bickering over who has the best plan.