One thing that’s become clear in recent years is that Hollywood is running out of ideas. No longer satisfied to remake successful classics or continue to build on long-existing franchises like the MCU, studios are now patch-working together past stories and concepts, creating something akin to building Frankenstein’s monster onscreen. This is the problem with Jackpot!, a movie that is sort of The Purge, sort of The Hunt and sort of Self Reliance, Jake Johnson’s significantly better version of an everyman-on-the-run-for-money tale. Throw in elements of Most Dangerous Game and Squid Games and, well, here we are.

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