The film premiered at the 2014 Toronto
International Film Festival and was generally well received, withIGN citing it
to be "a throwback to ’80s and ’90s adventure movie with a dash of comic
book violence thrown in for good measure."
The
film's budget was €8.5 million, making it the most expensive ever produced in
Finland.
SYNOPSIS
When Air Force One is shot down by
terrorists leaving the President of the United States William Allan Moore
(Samuel L. Jackson) stranded in the wilderness of Finland, there is only one
person around who can save him: a 13-year-old boy called Oskari (Onni Tommila).
In the forest on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his kinsfolk,
Oskari had been planning to track down a deer, but instead discovers the most
powerful man on the planet in an escape pod. With the terrorists closing in to
capture their own "Big Game" prize while Pentagon officials watch on
satellite broadcast—including the Vice President, the CIA director, and former
CIA field operative Herbert, brought in as a consultant—the unlikely duo must
team up to escape their hunters.
Already feeling at a disadvantage as a
hunter due to his father's reputation—his father having hunted and defeated a
bear on his own hunt—Oskari's faith in himself is further shattered when he
follows a map his father left him only to find a portable refrigeration unit
with a pre-killed deer head in it. Moore attempts to boost Oskari's confidence
by reminding Oskari that he managed to save him, but they are subsequently
confronted by Morris, the Secret Service member who orchestrated the attack
from on board Air Force One—having become disillusioned with Moore as president
after sustaining a bullet-wound that left a fragment of shrapnel near his
heart—and Hazar, the mercenary who hired Morris to get Moore to him. Although
Hazar decides to put Moore in the refrigeration unit and take him home to kill,
Oskari regains his confidence and leaps onto the unit before it can be carried
away, cutting it loose from the helicopter and hiding inside it as it rolls
down a mountain to land in a river.
Realising that the river leads to the lake
where Air Force One crashed, Moore and Oskari swim inside the plane to wait for
rescue, but are attacked by Hazar, who reveals that he has new orders to kill
the President now rather than torture him for later execution. Moore manages to
grab a gun and shoot Hazar before he and Oskari escape Air Force One via the
ejector seats, Oskari subsequently shooting Morris with an arrow as the
ex-bodyguard leans out of a helicopter to shoot at them; although the arrow cannot
pierce the protective padding on Morris's chest, the impact dislodges the
shrapnel inside Morris so that it impales his heart. The explosion of Air Force
One destroys Morris's helicopter and sends Moore and Oskari flying all the way
back to the camp where Oskari's village is waiting for him, arriving at the
same time as the Navy SEAL team sent to search for Moore. With Moore acting as
Oskari's 'prize', he assures Oskari's father that his son is the bravest man he
has ever met, with Oskari subsequently receiving the Medal of Honor for saving
Moore's life.
Back at the Pentagon, the Vice President
and Herbert reveal in a private discussion in a bathroom that Hazar was
actually a CIA operative; the plan was that he would kill the President to
inspire a new War on Terror, but with his survival Moore has instead become a
hero. To ensure that nothing can be traced back to them, Herbert kills the Vice
President by shoving him back against the sink, subsequently wiping the Vice
President's shoe and the floor with soap to give the impression that he just
slipped.
CAST
• Samuel L. Jackson as William
Allan Moore, President of the United States
• Onni Tommila as Oskari
• Felicity Huffman as The Director
of the Central Intelligence Agency
• Victor Garber as Vice President
of the United States
• Ted Levine as General Underwood
• Jim Broadbent as Herbert, a
former CIA operative and advisor.
• Ray Stevenson as Secret Service
Agent Morris
• Mehmet Kurtuluş as Hazar, a CIA
operative posing as a freelance terrorist.
• Jaymes Butler as Secret Service
Agent Otis
RELEASE DATE
June 26, 2015 in USA
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