I see how you could look at The Most Dangerous Game and believe there is so much focus on the development of the plot, complicating the story and developing the conflicts of man vs. man, even man vs. self, and man vs. nature. I agree that a theme that is present is the civility of mankind, or the lengths to which a man might go for his own pursuit of pleasure or sport, or even the question of what makes something sport. These are all obviously very related... which demonstrates your point that theme is indeed limited. The title in itself alludes to man as the most dangerous animal or game as well as the sport of hunting man. This connects to a theme which might once again questions the civility of man. Is it okay to hunt humans?
This piece is also a classic action story. You see these movies all the time and that one element they lack is theme. Sure there is lots of violence and you wonder who is going to get killed, but being just a story you don't question why human life is put at risk. It's not like those movies are trying to teach, they are there to entertain.
TMDG definitely has themes the explore the lengths humans go to in order to hurt each other, but the plot does indeed draw your attention away from that.
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