![]() An armed Madec sneaks into their house as Ben and his girlfriend sleep and confronts them, but Ben's girlfriend shoots Madec using the same gun Ben gave to her. Ben goes to his girlfriend and promises not to leave her side again. Ben eventually outsmarts Madec to overcome him with the slingshot.īack in town, Madec escapes from police custody during a bathroom break to board a helicopter that he solicited using his one phone call. Madec keeps watch with his vehicle's high-powered floodlights. Ben heads for a hidden grotto of water that he and his girlfriend had swum in, only to find it dried up as his sun-burnt body now freezes in the desert night. Madec shoots the barrel.īy sunset, Ben uses the map to find a wrist-brace slingshot and some marbles amongst a buried box of Charlie's personal effects. Ben finds enough water inside of a barrel to survive. Before it explodes, Ben escapes with a 'treasure map' belonging to Charlie, whom Ben vows will not die without justice. Ben hides in the dead prospector's subterranean lair, but Madec blows it up with the prospector's dynamite stash. To ensure his story is not contradicted, Madec watches Ben from a distance, using the scope from his rifle. ![]() Madec plans to report that Ben went mad, shot the prospector, and wandered off into the barren horizon alone. Madec then threatens Ben with his high-powered rifle and orders him to strip off his clothes and shoes, forcing him to wander out in the desert, 45 miles from the nearest town, to die of dehydration and exposure. When Ben picks up his emergency transponder, Madec destroys it and berates Ben for breaking the deal. Madec puts another bullet from Ben's gun into the corpse, and after explaining how he can now blackmail Ben with questions of who was the actual killer, offers Ben a deal: Madec will put him through college with a finance major and give him a $300,000 dollar-a-year job in return for his complicity in covering up the crime. When Madec-with a shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later philosophy-accidentally shoots an old prospector, Ben insists that they must report it as an accident. When Ben asks to see the permit to hunt the endangered bighorn, Madec offers a wad of cash, which the stunned Ben begrudgingly accepts. Madec taunts Ben over his girlfriend, who has gone away to Colorado on a college swimming scholarship after being gifted a gun that Ben taught her to shoot. ![]() The sheriff solicits the young but experienced tracker Ben to guide Madec an hour outside of town into the canyon country of Shiprock. Ruthless tycoon and trophy collector John Madec flaunts his $500,000 all-terrain vehicle in a small Mojave desert town, buying off the local sheriff to bag an endangered desert bighorn sheep. It was released in theaters and on-demand in the United States on April 17, 2015, by Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions. The film had its world premiere under its original title The Reach at the 39th Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2014. ![]() It follows a naked and unarmed hunting guide running from a wealthy hunter who wants to ensure his silence in the death of an old man. The film stars Michael Douglas (who also produced), Jeremy Irvine, Hanna Mangan-Lawrence, and Ronny Cox. Beyond the Reach is a 2014 American thriller film directed by Jean-Baptiste Léonetti from a screenplay by Stephen Susco, based on Robb White's 1972 novel Deathwatch. ![]()
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