Review of Series 7 The Contenders
Year: 2001 Reviewer: Chris Docker
Quite a good film actually, but hardly mainstream fun. Do you like Big Brother? Survivor? Need something a bit closer to the bone? Then shoot off and see this fictitious TV show where the contestants are plonked in a city with orders to kill each other. Not as simplistic as that synopsis might sound, The Contenders takes you through a gamut of human experience including childbirth, love and death decisions with a sweetheart, assisted suicide to mention a few. Brilliantly acted and scorchingly edge-of-seat stuff - hopefully you'll forgive the threadbare logic in the basic premise and hinted at "rules" that contestants have to play by. This is a welcome return of independent cinema but, predictably, not for a general audience.
Rating: 6/10
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