Deadly Game Shows

Don’t let the name fool you, while The Jurassic Games may sound like a slapped together title meant to cash-in on the popularity of The Hunger Games and this summer’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, ignoring this balls to the wall thrill ride from Emmy winning director, Ryan Bellgart would be a dino-sized mistake. Hold onto your butts because The Jurassic Games is 100 percent rampaging fun from start to finish. There have been many films over the years that played with the concept of deadly survival competition as televised entertainment for the masses, be it Paul Bartel’s Death Race 2000 in the 70’s, Schwarzenegger’s The Running Man in the 80’s or more recently Neveldine and Taylor’s certifiably insane movie Gamer with Gerard Butler. Each served as an indictment of exploitative media culture and greedy network tactics to get ratings, but you know what they didn’t have? DINOSAURS! In actuality, the lethal thunder lizard attacks (and there are many) are not really the main draw of the story as conceived by