6.8
The Paper Tigers
2020
“New Game. New Rules. No Escape”
Hard Edge (1997)
August 10, 19971h 25mEN
7.0
1 votes
Overview
John and Ben go on a survival-games weekend together where they intensely annoy the sergeant in charge. After the games are over John and Ben hang around and meet up with the sergeant who drunkenly challenges them to another game the next day. This time the sergeant and his friends turn up with real guns.
Director
Caleb LindsayWriters
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$1.5M
Revenue
N/A
Production Companies
DMS Films LimitedAmsell Entertainment
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Hard Edge” is a wannabe survival drama set in cozy rural England that mostly fires blanks. Second low-budget feature from young Brit director Caleb Lindsay, who bowed three years ago with the slight but promising Gen-X dramatic comedy “Chasing Dreams,” is torpedoed by blah dialogue and largely collegiate playing. Tightening by some 10 minutes could make this privately funded item a passable vid entry for undiscriminating couch potatoes. Prime candidate for shearing is an awkward six-minute pre-credit sequence of the two leads, bearded John (Luke Shaw) and balding Ben (Simon Bateso), fooling…
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