The Pest (1997)
"What kind of freakazoid would let someone hunt him just to collect $50,000?...Next question."
ThumbScore
👍 61%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 8%
(RT: 8%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Is The Pest good?
It's divisive. 61% audience score, estimated from 167 TMDB ratings. Critics scored it lower at 8%, but audiences disagreed.
Overview
Fast-talking Latino con artist Pestario "Pest" Vargas is the target of Scottish mobsters to whom he owes a considerable debt. Willing to do anything to raise money and avoid severe injury or death, Vargas agrees to a very unusual job -- he will be transported to a remote island and hunted by Gustav Shank, a racist German executive. If he can survive a full day and night, Vargas gets $50,000 and will be set free. Is he wily enough to elude Shank? Wikipedia ↗
