Dangerous Game: The Legacy Murders

This gory, nasty murder mystery skims over the mystery part and collapses into a thunderstorm of hateful shouting. It feels like a low-budget attempt to find an intersection between Knives Out and Saw. The three "name" stars (Voight, Rhys Meyers, and Sasso) are the most unpleasant among the cast of Dangerous Game: The Legacy Murders, with Voight and Rhys Meyers nearly dripping with venom and rage, while Sasso lacks the confidence to tangle with them. The movie can't cut through the negativity to find their humanity; we just watch them go at it. And it's hard to have much sympathy for Cameron, whose demise is purely based on his lack of intelligence.

The women are more interesting, thankfully; they're the ones who actually try to play the game and save the day. But it's hard to get too excited about them in a movie that allows a cat to be ground up by a garbage disposal (and then shows the bloody corpse) and includes a character eating a popped-out eyeball from a recent stabbing victim. These are hard-core gore images, and they feel out of place for a movie that seems to want to be sophisticated and clever. The entire thing reeks of disdain; it's a far cry from Clue, Ready or Not, and its other inspirations. Admittedly, the movie does a good job of hiding its ultimate secret, but at the same time, half of the big reveal doesn't make any sense. If Dangerous Game: The Legacy Murders fools you, you feel picked on, rather than being in on the fun.