Big Game

The story penned by Helander with Petri Jokiranta goes heavy on the hokum, not to mention the CGI fireworks, but a dialled-down Jackson and a fired-up Tommila make for an entertaining pair.

There are times when it seems impossible that it could possibly exist as a real thing and not just as a parody trailer that accidentally got inflated to feature length.

Gleefully dumb but eager to entertain, this is cheeseball stuff baked with deliciously outsized performances and low comedy and photographed across mighty beautiful landscapes.

Mr. Jackson has never seemed so unblustery; his scenes with the younger actor have ease and humor. The authority is there but also the soul you'd want from the leader of the free world.

"Big Game" never once feels credible, and that's why it's so entertaining. Almost nothing that takes place in this movie could occur in the real world, and there's something comforting about that.

As a throwback, Big Game understands the thrills of retro action but never earns its big moments.

It's the kind of film that is so enjoyable that feels so brief; it seems to end just when it should get good. [Full review in Spanish]

Big Game offers audiences an uncomplicated, affectionate and entertaining homage to the action-adventure of cinema past.

Without the unusual Finnish elements, this would have been a far more mundane Game.

Sometimes, one needs well-made, mindless entertainment in the middle of the summer, and Big Game delivers just that -- joyous, senseless entertainment without making you feel like you've just had a lobotomy.

The black humor of Big Game's implausibility wonderfully complements the usually over-wrought notion of a terrorist attack.