Pluskylang Great Film overall

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

neilhumphrey-25198 Let me start by thanking my buddy John for insisting on dragging me to this utter trash of a movie in 1974. The (numerous) unpleasant scenes are still seared into my memory.Never before-or since-has an assemblage of unsavory characters and cruelty to fellow human beings'graced'the big screen. (Okay, I should give honorable mention to 'Goodfellas', but that's for another One- Star review I'll submit later.) Now here we are in 2017 and, as we all know,the world is a much more peaceful and brighter place than the one portrayed in this putrid 1974 film. Ya right. Is society shaped-or desensitized- by violence in films and on television? Who's to say? I used to laugh when our teachers and preachers suggested that rock music was "destroying the youth of today". But I will say I'm disturbed by the number of people who give this film a positive review as a must-see 'message'movie. There is no message here but mean-spirited cruelty and violence.

merklekranz Richard Lynch often plays the villain, but seeing hero types Peter Fonda, and John Philip Law as Lynch's comrades in crime is what really makes "Recon Game" a winner. It appears the three leads had a long leash as far as improvisation goes, and their constant bantering probably strays somewhat from what might have been scripted. The film is not perfect, and there are at least a bunch of tedious moments, especially inside the hunting lodge, including a truly boring sequence involving a Monopoly game. Once the "prey" are turned loose and the hunt begins, this raw revenge flick kicks into gear. "Recon Game" compares favorably with another rarely seen hunted in the woods film, "Hunter's Blood". If you can find it, see it, and along with "Recon Game" they would make a terrific double feature. - MERK

rijim2001 Get some decent Americn actors on the cheap, film in the mountains outside of Madrid to cut expenses, play it for the U.S. market and you end up with this film. I think that is the main reason so many male reviewers on this site think this is a terrific film. Because of the European sleaze factor of one pretty single woman in a mountain cabin with men with guns. The plot has been explained by many others but (Spoiler alert) most missed the fact that Fonda had fathered a child years earlier when he and his "clean-cut" pals gang raped Holden's daughter and got away Scot-free. That's why Holden shows up at the end to exact revenge and to stop these guys. I just watched a tape of it and am selling it fast and cheap so it won't contaminate my library of films.

Tia-4 This film was different, but very good. The beginning was interesting, and Peter Fonda played really well, he made this film worth watching. Although he was a "bad guy", he had a certain hidden charm. I wish this film would come out on DVD, so I could buy it.