20/03/12 Series 7: The Contenders (2001)

Superb satirical film that, eleven years after its creation, appears even more contemporary.

Set in a near future where reality television has gone beyond feeding the voyeuristic tastes of  its ovis-esque viewers (he writes, with one hand, whilst on a reclining leather chair) to having near-governmental levels of power, forcing unwilling members of the public to become participants in a homicidal survivor show where the six 'Contenders' have to kill the other five in order to become the series champion.

Basically, the sort of televisual concept that Simon Cowell probably *ahem* emits over when he has those 'dark, yet special, dreams'.

I can't praise this flick enough. Imagine The Running Man, but intelligent and pulsing with a mean, black humour!

It also has one of the best final lines I've ever seen.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251031/

10/10

                                                         Watch the trailer, then buy the film!


                                                                    Perkin.