The Hunted (2003)
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Reviews Counted: 144
Fresh: 43 | Rotten: 101
An all too familiar chase movie that's not worth the talents involved.
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 26
An all too familiar chase movie that's not worth the talents involved.
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A rogue special-forces soldier is tracked down by his former mentor in this action thriller from director William Friedkin (The French Connection, The Exorcist). In his first role since winning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2001, Benicio del Toro stars as Aaron Hallam, one of the U.S. military's most skilled hand-to-hand combat operatives. In the years following his successful assassination of a Serbian warlord in late-'90s Kosovo, Hallam finds himself plagued by traumatic flashbacks of death
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Tommy Lee Jones
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Benicio Del Toro
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Connie Nielsen
Abby Durrell -
Leslie Stefanson
Irene -
Jenna Boyd
Loretta
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All Critics (156) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (46) | Rotten (103) | DVD (22)
Ludicrous, plotless, ho-hum tale of lurid confrontation.
Top CriticThere's too much talent on-screen and behind the camera for The Hunted to be dull, but it is predictable and disappointing, and we seem to be missing about a half-hour's worth of scenes that would have brought some depths to these characters.
Essentially a reheating of 1982's First Blood ... but the fallout this time is simultaneously more ruthless, less emotional, and duller.
By stripping an action thriller this close to the bone, director William Friedkin has removed too much meat.
This is schlock -- by-the-numbers action that ignores character development to the point where we find it hard to care whether L.T. catches Hallam or whether they end up running after each other until the world ends.
Has so little going for it, you wonder if you've missed something.
An awful and graphically violent movie.
It's actually a tense, intelligent film, highlighting two of Friedkin's pet themes, and it deserves consideration among his best films.
Just like Walter Hill's Undisputed, William Friedkin's The Hunted plays a like a clinic for lean, mean, no-nonsense filmmaking.
Be prepared to endure pounds of painful preposterousness in return for the film's pint-sized pleasures.
... It's the polar opposite of the stylized action popularized by The Matrix and other recent films.
With so much going right in The Hunted, it's a shame they couldn't track down a writer (three are credited) who could have figured out how to make the ending work.
The Hunted . . . has the pacing of a chase movie, the atmosphere of a horror film and the tired formula of a morally bankrupt Tinseltown action flick.
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