Random rental of cheap movies from the video shop, number two: Series 7: The Contenders. Another of those stories along the line of Robert Sheckley's "Hunter/Victim" series, The Running Man, and so forth, Series 7 distinguishes itself by being done as an excellent parody of Reality TV.
Splendidly, the Reality TV model is not departed from at all throughout the entire duration of the movie; dodgy camerawork, players getting annoyed at the camerapeople getting in the way, and some rather cleverly and amusingly done implication of "this may have been cut and edited to provide misleading information". This one's worth renting should you see it.
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