Writer/director David Webb Peoples (writer for Blade Runner, Ladyhawke) has certainly done better. Trying to rush a bloody animal skull across a sandy wasteland while being lethally assaulted, this game makes no more sense to me than a barbaric Quidditch match! I found the action to be entertaining, but not even a little bit “good” technically speaking. The Game resembles a combination of rugby, la Crosse, Rollerball (1975, 2002) and American Gladiators. The scar-faced Big Climber (Anna Katarina Angels and Demons, Star Trek) and Young Gar (Vincent D’Onofrio The Salton Sea, Daredevil) arm themselves with wicker shin guards, chain whips, flails and leathers as other scarred warriors don stylish partial face masks. These Juggers are led by Sallow (Rutger Hauer True Blood, Bleeders) and they stop at a clearing to remove some, yes, “traditionally prepared” dog skulls from a sack before facing their competition. But let’s just pause and appreciate this weirdly eclectic cast in this cult classic, Australian B-movie. Not just that, but Hauer does the Maximus Gladiator pre-battle sand-hand ritual. And in march the Juggers, a rugged group mixing the aspects of the Sand People and gladiators-and speaking of gladiators, Mbulu (Delroy Lindo Gone in 60 Seconds, Point Break) might just have been the inspiration for Gladiator’s (2000) Juba (played by Djimon Hounsou). The 20 th century has come and gone, its technology and more serene times long forgotten, and in its place is The Game…which is played with… a dog skull…!?!?!?! Did I just read that opening caption right?Ĭut to a young boy running and screaming a “Juggers” version of Paul Revere’s “the redcoats are coming” and a Tomboyish Kidda (Joan Chen Wedlock, The Last Emperor) working in a sandy crop field of this Mad Max-esque post-Apocalyptic wasteland.
Misinformative posters…there are no red fingernails ( left) and I don’t know what’s going on ( right). MOVIES LIKE Salute of the Jugger: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), but even more so Mad Max (1979), Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) and Rollerball (1975, 2002).
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MY CALL: Also senselessly retitled as The Blood of Heroes, this post-apocalyptic Mad Max sports movie makes for an excellent Bad Movie Tuesday with gentle echoes of Gladiator (2000), Rollerball (1975) and even The Matrix (1999).
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