Very Cool!!!

Memorable, crazy movie

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

"Turkey Shoot" is the most boring prison movie I've ever seen.It's much vaunted graphic violence looks cheap as hell and doesn't follow any law of continuity. Plus, you have to sit through almost an hour of boring movie before you even get to see any.The movie is supposedly set in the future but there is nothing futuristic about it. We only dimly recognise this through the basic set up of people being sent away for minor crimes for "behaviour modification". This is enough of a cliché of dystopian sci fi that they only had to mention it and everyone will assume it's set in the future - no need for fancy sets or costumes or anything that looks in any way "futuristic".There is also the baffling inclusion of some kind of monster-like thing; basically a guy built like a wrestler with glowing red contact lenses. I guess the inclusion of such a creature is also explained by the movie being "set in the future", so don't ask any questions, okay? You'll be too busy scratching your head at its laughably bad death scene: the blade of an earth mover pins the creature to a tree at the back of the knees, then, cut to... the upper half of the creature, severed at the waist, falling onto the ground. How did it get cut at the WAIST, when we just saw the shovel blade pin it at the back of the knee? Did the filmmakers expect us not to notice that?The violence is all so badly done that it's impossible to respond to it with anything other than amusement at the awful special effects. The reason why people go on about the violence in this one, is, it seems, because there is absolutely nothing else in the movie of note or of interest.

This movie is really not bright, not clever and even very naive. It tries to show "brutality of future totalistic camp" but it pales in comparison to harsh reality of real communistic and Nazi camps. In comparison to them this camp looks like holiday resort (except maybe for the "gasoline football").As a show that could teach the viewer something about survival it sucks hard. Basically, the "heroes" do almost everything wrong. The movie may act a a tutorial "how not to survive the turkey shoot". How a man can, for example, to lose firefight against the bow equipped woman when he has automatic rifle with a scope? He never tries to "camp and snipe" which would be probably the most efficient solution here. He never even tries to cover himself with suppressive fire. He just plays a target. Uh.These "heroes" do almost everything wrong - they try to run from the car on open area. The "hero" tries to run from a guy with a rifle with a scope on a rocky waterfall (yes it was pretty but you can hardly invent more stupid solution when there are woods all around). The heroes seem to be unable to stay still when the enemies are around so even if they try to hide it never works.The woman hero has enough time to enjoy relaxing bath instead of using mud for camouflage - and of course not a single hero ever trues to actually use any camouflage so they run in yellow pajamas in mostly gray and brown area. In communistic countries there were basic lessons for kids how to move in the environment unnoticed so I guess that every 10 years old would have better chance to survive the hunt. The heroes seem to like open spaces and running here in pairs hand in hand as they would be playing in the kindergarten.So - the movie is less than useful as a realistic lesson how to survive the hunt. It is just nasty, unrealistic and incoherent fun. Not particularly bright, violent, incoherent but somehow watchable.

Oh, man! If I ended up in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic world, you can bet your bag that I'd have a hermaphrodite ape-man as a sidekick, so when a guy turned up on Turkey Shoot with some sort of toff Wolfman as a buddy, this film had me truly sold.It's kinda slow at first, this one, but once it kicks into gear its Ozzie magic all the way...In the future or something folks that don't agree with the government get sent to correctional camps to get slapped around a bit by grinning guards. Only in this particular camp, see, the head guy likes to gather together people that like hunting other people. Basically the film builds up to this hunt and then the gore begins! People are cut in half, folks have their hands removed, and in one particularly great scene, someone is shot so much they just give up and explode...It's not overly gory, but entertaining in a way. Daft, too. You can't whack a bit of daft gore - just ask Sky News! It took me ages to find this one and your not getting a copy...

Ozploitation. Exploitations colloquial cousin. During a period Ozploitation films where popular and Turkey Shoot is a notable success amongst some of the trash of the Australians attempts at exploitation films. It's fairly controversial 'The Most Dangerous Game' approach has helped it gain a fair amount of cult following over the years and all though it doesn't hold up in the slightest to later films with the same honourable human hunting intentions such as Battle Royale and more recently Exam it still holds up nicely as the definitive Australian approach to the subject matter.Turkey Shoot takes place in a dystopian future, now past, where 'social deviants' can be re-educated and returned to society through concentration style camps. The films narrative starts by following the lives of three newly arrived inmates and their view upon the extreme violence and toil prisoners suffer throughout their stay, mostly beatings and depravity by a hugely entertaining large bold Australian with a handlebar moustache. In the second half of the film the camps owners, safari British style hunters, round up five one-dimensional, to the extreme, characters (we have whore, rebel, rebel mark 2, bad guy and vulnerable) and force them to participate for their possible freedom in a human hunt, staring themselves, called Turkey Shoot. When faced with the dilemma of what to do when hunted each character uses their own personality to forge different ways of dealing with the situation and in true exploitation style extreme violence bordering on hilarity ensues.Brain Trenchard-Smiths direction is riddled with plot holes but the right ingredients are there; i.e. gore, nudity and some kind of circus freak werewolf guy. What makes the film and its direction good is that it doesn't treat itself seriously, there is no character development or even some kind of message or lesson learnt by the end of the film. It just wants to exist to entertain its audience and being a film exploiting violence make money. All the factors that would bother audiences in drama films don't matter in Turkey Shoot and can be disregarded as its honesty in being a technically bad film tells the audience that it wasn't made to win awards or be visually or musically stunning.Naturally the acting is bad. But as all the characters only have one characteristic for the actors to act in the characters are appealing as comical relief from the films serious, even if not shown in the film, underlying story. The English actors are great in playing their roles as the bad guys in typical posh ascents to stress that they are 'better people' than the Ausies. The person that stands out most however is Roger Ward as Chief Guard Ritter, his enthusiastic approach to the violent sadistic character fits perfectly creating a highly memorable giant Australian with a handlebar moustache. This along with the werewolf placed in the film just to chew peoples toes and such are probably the most imaginative parts of the film and make it memorable over many other films in its genre.Visually and musically there is little going on. The film is shot and edited nicely enough but sometimes its conventional style makes you think that the director could have done so much more. The aspect that saves its dull camera work comes from the variety of lush Australian landscapes ranging from the sandy concentration camp style centre to woods, fields of long dry grass and beaches. This helps the film as a whole always capture your interest and I'm in no doubt that without this kind of variety in the sets landscapes the film might seem very boring indeed. Overall Turkey Shoot holds up as an entertaining popcorn flick and with its blend of extreme violence and lovable characters (for the most part, villain-wise anyway) makes a entirely watchable exploitation movie. If you are a fan of the The Most Dangerous Game style situations it might boost itself to a must watch.