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The Hunted
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by Paramount
Sales Rank: 42851
Price: $4.99
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William Friedkin's taut direction highlights <I>The Hunted</I>, a bloodsport thriller that works best without dialogue. It's a prime vehicle for costars Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro, whose rugged screen personas are perfectly matched in a manhunt between a military assassin and the man who trained him to kill. Traumatized by atrocities in Kosovo four years earlier (the site of an action-packed prologue), Hallam (Del Toro) is seemingly psychotic and now killing in the forests of Oregon; Bonham (Jones) is lured out of retirement by a tenacious FBI agent (Connie Nielsen) to end Hallam's murder spree. The hackneyed plot is derivative to a fault (no surprise from the screenwriters of <I>Collateral Damage</I>), and the whole movie's a foregone conclusion, but Friedkin inspires fine work from his well-trained stars while exploring the ambiguity of Hallam's character. Lushly photographed by Caleb Deschanel, <I>The Hunted</I> is a survivalist's dream, militarily authentic and most effective when its primal instincts are cinematically expressed. <I>--Jeff Shannon</I>
Viewer Reviews
God! This movie sucked. I can just imagine the hack pitching this to a studio head.
"Okay! It's Rambo-gone-bad meets Apocalypse Now and throw a little French Connection into it! It's gonna be awesome!"
What a bunch of high school manure! No, really. Manure! Crap! Crusty skid marks in old underwear!
What happened to William Friedkin? He hasn't made a decent film since To Live & Die in L.A. That was over 20 years ago! Did he burn out? Is it only about the paycheck for him now? Anyway...
Though the movie's plot was a real nose-pincher, Friedkin hasn't lost his technical skills, and he can still direct actors well. He's still got edge, and for that I believe there's hope yet.
I dream that someday the novel Roadwork (by Richard Bachman - aka Stephen King) will be made into a script. I think William Friedkin would be perfect to direct the film. I'd bet my savings that it would be a showcase movie for him.
But I recommend you not waste your money on The Hunted. It's a real clunker. As for me, I'll just keep on dreamin'.
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