Extreme sports aren’t for everyone — it takes a certain breed of person to enjoy hurtling yourself out of planes and scaling up steep mountain ranges. What’s enjoyable for more people, however, is watching movies about people doing all of these stunts from the comfort and safety of their own home.

A survival film at its core, Netflix’s “Apex” is filled with death-defying stunts and adrenaline-filled adventures in the backdrop of an isolated Australian forest. The setting provides for an elaborate maze of survival, both what the main character, Sasha, had hoped for and soon learned to fear.

Played by Charlize Theron — known most notably for her role as Furiosa in the “Mad Max” franchise — Sasha is an adrenaline junkie who never backs down from a challenge. She’s quick-witted, fearless, and unafraid, with the film opening to a scene of Sasha casually sleeping in a tent strapped halfway up the side of a monstrous mountain in Norway.

Even after a major setback that would normally make someone reconsider their constant extreme actions, Sasha continues to hunt down her next adventure and lands upon kayaking down racing rivers in a secluded Australian forest. While “Apex” sets up Sasha’s character and her personality well, the beginning of the film felt tame compared to what I was expecting.

Going into “Apex,” I was reminded of a short story I had read in high school titled “The Most Dangerous Game,” written by Richard Connell. Both “Apex” and “The Most Dangerous Game” have similar remote settings with the same twist to them — the main characters are being hunted for sport. This compelling plotline is what drew me into the film, but I was left hoping for something original and exciting to happen.

The movie’s major flaw is that it contains tropes that have been seen several times before, without adding anything new to the equation. It’s a fine psychological thriller, but nowhere near the greats of the same genre, and is ultimately a film I’ll have forgotten I watched in a week.

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The acting by Theron and Taron Egerton, who plays the man hunting Sasha, Ben, was fine, albeit a little underwhelming. In a story where a man, who is also a cannibal, is hunting a girl for sport to eat her, I felt that the performances could have been more horrifying.

There’s one scene where Ben reveals his sharp, mutilated teeth to Sasha and places her fingers in his mouth that gave me the chills, and I was hoping for more terrifying scenes like that throughout the rest of the film. However, instead of being given a horrifying nightmare, the audience is given a few lackluster action sequences here and there, and pacing that fluctuates between intense highs and crawling lows.

The main twist, if it could even be called a twist, was so easily recognizable that I couldn’t believe it was being marketed as a ground-breaking revelation. Ben’s entire character screams creepy from the moment the audience meets him, and his constant wailing about his mother was bound to be the source of his trauma, turned murderous rampage.

The fact that Ben was a cannibal was blatantly obvious, and while Ben’s tour of his man-eating cave was creepy, the scene could have been made a lot more terrifying.

I might be extra critical about “Apex” because of how high my hopes were for the film, and I can’t help but be upset at the disappointment I feel from it. I wished for something new and groundbreaking, but ultimately was left feeling that more effort could have been put into the film.

I do have to give “Apex” some credit for the ending message at least. Even though Sasha has experienced every horror related to the outdoors, she still perseveres and doesn’t let this traumatic experience get in the way of her enjoyment of extreme sports and the outdoors. Even when life is tough, it’s a good reminder that you can still keep pushing on.

Ultimately, “Apex” was a fine watch. It had the potential to be exciting and original, but fell flat right before making the cutoff. While I had hoped for something scarier, “Apex” was a decent survivor psychological thriller film.