![]() 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. 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. There may be those living in poverty elsewhere among the competitors, but the players will never see them.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. Having people from various backgrounds could have made it more interesting, as a bunch of influencers with generally comfortable lifestyles doesn't work as well with Kill/Stream's aim of manipulating truly desperate people. That said, Bloodshore does feel a little muddled, and partly that's down to the extremely niche set of characters that the player follows, as only one of the starting group sits outside of the media industry. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, the action regularly cuts to the reactions of viewers and television shows dissecting the events, which fit excellently with the overall tone. ![]() The most prominent contestants are a bunch of vloggers and influencers, while the main character is the former star of a Twilight-esque series of movies. This is helped by the deliberately over-the-top acting of a lot of the cast, with a bubblegum exuberance that solidifies the game's standing as something not to be taken entirely seriously. ![]()
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