That’s in part why the comparisons to I Know What You Did and Hunger Games are hollow. The main problem is one that plagues too many films: no depth. While there are plot elements that evoke both films (one of the kidnapped kids turns out to be good with a bow and arrow people are being hunted all of the kids have screwed up in that reckless, teen way-one of them involving a car accident), sadly, it’s not nearly as good as either. It’s a film in which everyone just seems to be going through the motions, as if no one really cared about it very much.Īt least one reviewer has called the film a cross between The Hunger Games and I Know What You did Last Summer. Well, maybe I felt a tiny bit angry because such an incredibly beautiful shooting location was being thrown away. It wasn’t that Billionaire Ransom was bad in any truly objectionable ways. ![]() The rich kids then get to practice their newly-honed survival skills with their very lives on the line. As they are being taught the basics of survival on an isolated island, they are kidnapped by a group of criminals interested in a little wealth redistribution. It features a cast of young people (led by Jeremy Sumpter and Phoebe Tonkin), all of whom are rich and spoiled and sent to some kind of punitive boot camp for moral rehabilitation. ![]() I was punished, it seems, for my less-than-serious motivation in that the film’s location ended up being by far the best thing about it.īillionaire Ransom is directed by Jim Gillespie, known for I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), and written by Alexander Ignon. ![]() My primary motivation for watching the recently-released Billionaire Ransom ( Take Down outside the US) was its filming location.
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