イギリスで実際に行われている青少年向け課外活動「デューク・オブ・エディンバラ・アワード」を題材に、謎のハンターに命を狙われた4人の若者の奮闘を描いた青春ブラックコメディ。 サウス・バイ・サウスウエスト映画祭2019でミッドナイト部門観客賞を受賞した。スコットランドの自然豊かなハイランド地方へ課外活動にやって来た3人の問題児と1人の優等生。広大な丘陵地帯のど真ん中に置き去りにされた彼らは、キャンプをしながら徒歩で目的地までたどり着かなければならない。地図を頼りに歩き始める4人だったが、正体不明のハンターが彼らを付け狙っており……。 Amazon Prime Videoで2020年8月28日から配信。
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監督: Ninian Doff
脚本: Ninian Doff
音楽: Alex Menzies
制作: Richard G. Weinberg / Matthew Plouffe / Tim Headington
撮影監督: Patrick Meller
制作会社: Highland Midgie / Material Pictures / Nowhere / Tango Entertainment
Shoddy watch, probably won't watch again, and can't recommend. I generally like Eddie Izzard, and this is such a great concept. The idea of taking the undesired population and culling them through hunting / bloodsport is not new ("Battle Royal", "Ready or Not", "Would You Rather", "Thirty One"), I do feel like this opportunity is squandered a bit. This is also not the only movie where someone is hunted through the highlands ("A Lonely Place to Die"), but this is the only movie I can think of that basically makes the Scottish Highlands look at the place from "The Hill Have Eyes", good old red neck American style. And there are plenty of idiot characters and movies filled with idiot characters. One would think that having these morons in such a life threatening situation would make it dramatic or at least give the movie so weight. Unfortunately, something about the movie makes me feel like I shouldn't take it seriously, so I know they're not in real danger, and knowing that they're going to win with no casualities, just makes them idiots doing stupid things, and there was no point in setting them in the highlands in the first place.
