Jungleground

Jungleground is a 1995 Canadian action film directed by Don Allan and starring Roddy Piper, Torri Higginson, Peter Williams, JR Bourne and Rachel Wilson.

Piper plays a cop challenged to a high stakes escape game by the ruler of a violent no-go zone (JR Bourne), who has kidnapped his girlfriend (Higginson) and threatens to kill her if he fails.

Jungleground was made by two Toronto companies, Peter R. Simpson's Norstar Entertainment and George Flak's Performance Pictures, who had worked with Piper the year prior on Back in Action.

Mike Mayo of The Roanoke Times wrote that "[o]verall, the film's got an inventiveness, colorful characters and humor that fans expect of a good action movie, and Piper has the presence to carry it off.

[19] In his publication VideoScope, genre critic Joe Kane described it as "Escape from New York meets The Most Dangerous Game", but added that "[f]ortunately, director Don Allan and crew keep the pace so blistering that this new sprint through old turf kept us pretty much glued".

Calling it "[a]n odious film", he complained that "[p]unks are everywhere, buildings are decrepit, crime is rampant, brutal gang war rules, bullets fly and cars are aflame in a darkness that seems eternal.