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The Hunted (2003)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:10
Rotten:23
Average Rating:4.5/10
Consensus: An all too familiar chase movie that's not worth the talents involved.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong bloody violence and some language
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release:Mar 14, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $34,195,533
Synopsis:
Director William Friedkin gave us a cop pushing hard against the criminal element deep within himself in the classic crime thriller "The French Connection." He enhanced the meaning of "devil" for...
Director William Friedkin gave us a cop pushing hard against the criminal element deep within himself in the classic crime thriller "The French Connection." He enhanced the meaning of "devil" for an entire generation and gave us a rare look at a man of God fighting a malignant force by admitting that he, too, was sinful in "The Exorcist." And in "To Live and Die in L.A.," he locked a single-minded cop and a career criminal into a power struggle that mapped the hypocrisies of their entire society.
Now, in "The Hunted," Friedkin explores man's inner conflict over his own evils in the most primal, elemental way, by telling the story of a retired teacher of warfare (Tommy Lee Jones) who must battle his former student (Benicio Del Toro), a top special-forces assassin gone renegade.
Paramount Pictures presents, in association with Lakeshore Entertainment, a Ricardo Mestres/Alphaville Production. A William Friedkin Film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro, "The Hunted" also features Connie Nielson, Leslie Stefanson, John Finn, Jose Zuniga, Ron Canada, Mark Pellegrino and Lonny Chapman. The film is directed by William Friedkin and written by David Griffiths & Peter Griffiths and Art Monterastelli. Ricardo Mestres and James Jacks serve as producers. The executive producers are David Griffiths, Peter Griffiths, Marcus Viscidi and Sean Daniel and the co-producer is Art Monterastelli.
Paramount Pictures is part of the entertainment operations of Viacom Inc., one of the world's largest entertainment and media companies, and a leader in the production, promotion and distribution of entertainment news, sports and music.
The film is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for strong bloody violence and some language. -- © Paramount Pictures
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Leslie Stefanson, Connie Nielsen
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Leslie Stefanson, Connie Nielsen, Jenna Boyd, Jose Zuniga
Director: William Friedkin
Director: William Friedkin
Screenwriter: David Griffiths, Peter Griffiths, Art Monterastelli
Producer: Ricardo Mestres, James Jacks, Art Monterastelli
Composer: Brian Tyler
Studio: Paramount Pictures
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Reviews for The Hunted
There'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.
An unpleasant action suspenser more dedicated to hurtling relentlessly forward than to vesting audience interest.
The Hunted isn't exactly fraught with psychological depth and nuance, but as a stalker-stalkee suspenser, the pic has some nice things going for it.
Things take off immediately and stay in motion for 90 solid, economical minutes.
Although it is a rough ride, The Hunted is also an exciting one. But no tracking skills were needed to follow its well-traveled cinematic road.
The Hunted isn't grand cinema, but it's a good jog around the action flick track. Sort of like The Fugitive, except ...
An intense, if terse, character study that does not let us settle into comfortable delineations of good and evil.
The sight of Jones expending his sizable acting chops on this piece of macho blowhard fluff is distressing only if you can't relax and appreciate The Hunted on a camp level, where it functions quite hilariously.
You got your hunted, you got your hunter, and away they go. And go and go.
The Hunted has little to recommend it but some well-staged hand-to-hand combat, scenes in which, thankfully, no one double-back-flips into trees with the help of wires and digital doodling.
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