#BLOODSHORE GAME REVIEW MOVIE#

It's a missed opportunity to actually stage the story to revolve around BR itself. And on the whole, the Battle Roayle scenario actually ends up being little more than a backdrop to the yet another conspiracy adventure trying to bring down some large evil corp. Half of the already short run time is spent with just one other character. It's all about inner group turmoil and their quick separation. In fact, the group never even comes in contact with another competing team, conveniently. This is alluded to at the start, when someone asks what happens when they are the only team left – there must only be one winner – and it's dismissed as 'we'll figure it out later, let's stick together through the initial rounds'.īut there are no initial rounds. The contestants are dropped together in teams, and don't get their weapons until the next day, but there seem to be no rules about betrayal or even switching teams. However, the rules of the current game still end up quite unclear. The interviewer clips ask many of these questions, but the original founder mostly shrugs them off. This of course leads to criticism that the deadly contest unfairly targets people that have no choice, and so on. You get a lot of background – about how the previous seasons used volunteer prison inmates, before eventually opening up entry to everyone. It makes you feel like you're watching one of those quick-cut YouTube videos, rather than a 'movie' that the game tries to be.

The game constantly flips between the story on the island, to the commentary, to the fan reactions, to the interview revelations at breakneck speed. However, where Bloodshore falters is that all of these scenes are so extremely brief and hastily cut together. It's a fairly typical setup for a story of this nature the post-apocalyptic blood sport setup has often been explored in films, including recently. You also get interjecting clips of people from around the world supposedly watching and reacting to the broadcast, as well as interview of the original creator being grilled by a reporter. The island battle is framed through a Kill Stream broadcast, a fictional show complete with an over the top host and a color commentator. They are here to try and win the top prize, which promises money and fame, thus turning their lives around. They behave exactly as you would expect, and the inexperienced actors really ham up their performances for the sake of fulfilling these tropes to their fullest.

#BLOODSHORE GAME REVIEW MOVIE#

Each character is a caricature of a trope – the crazy right-wing conspiracy podcaster, a video game streamer, a fashion influencer, a failed movie star, and so on.

The title starts off with a bunch of characters getting ready to drop onto an island, where they must fight to be the last person standing. Movie adaptations of video games have a rough track record at best, and Bloodshore is essentially that, a snake eating its own tail - a game presented as a movie, adapting a game.

Bloodshore game review