This movie was totally awesome. What is more awesome is that Hugh Lambe is a college professor in real life. This guy is my professor and he never told us he was an actor, he teaches business, he has a few degrees. When I looked him up and saw this it blew my mind! I watched the movie and needless to say it was blew my mind seeing my teacher as "the hunter" in this movie. The movie is like a twist on an evil Rambo that lives in the woods. The movie has great special effects and great directing. Its full of twists and turns, jam packed with action and gore. I can't wait to see the sequel when it comes out with Hugh Lambe starring in it. We need more movies with Hugh Lambe in it.

Oh my, not a good movie. At all. This one belongs to the category of movies where a group of people is gradually slaughtered with only one left, either the bad guy or the last man standing in the group. And although I can enjoy that kind of movies, certainly not this one. Plot holes all over the place, an ending and storyline that can be guessed in the tenth or so minute and more illogical behaviour than one can bare. It isn't the mere fact that members of the group are put in solo in order to be put down by the bad guy (that's what these kind of movies are about), but the lack of creativity put into the script why members are suddenly on their own is disappointing. Worst part may be the deerhunter-scene. That may be intended as homage to a classic 'nam-movie, but it was a curious and awkward scene totally out of context. All in all, not worth the time.

I'm going to keep this very simple. Imagine you have never had a creative idea in your life, so you watch Predator and decide it's so awesome you're going to remake it, except you don't have a monster, a jungle, special effects, actors, soldiers or talent. This is what Battleground is, a poorly hacked together rip off of Predator (with a bit of Hobo with a Shotgun). Scene for scene, line for line, Battleground tries to wear Predator's shoes and what is baffling to me is how so many people involved in the making of this film could have gone along with it. Was this really how the director wanted it? And they actually spent money to make this? Congratualtions, you've made it that much harder for real film makers to get funding.

I'm giving this a positive review because I think that for the most part the film serves itself with everything any low-budget action film has to offer. It has many elements of other well known action / thriller movies but this is not a bad thing - the film executes them with all the flare and gusto. Nobody cares if it's former title 'Skeleton Lake' didn't have lakes or Skeletons, it is called Battleground. Six ruthless criminals lay low in the forest after a failed bank heist(HEAT)and it turns into a surivalist horror (PREDATOR)I thought that the acting was strong from the main cast. Bryan Larkin is superb as Mitch and Tex who is essentially the strong quiet bad ass. Mitch is a great lead and perfectly matched for the Hunter. The action sequences like when they lose the loot is very well choreographed. The ending did disappoint but all in all it was a great watch and I would highly recommend it to any action horror fans. Not the best but definitely worth a watch.