The Hunting Party (2007)
51 %
Reviews Counted: 80 Fresh: 41 Rotten:39 Average Rating: 6/10
Consensus:
The Hunting Party is tonally awkward: its shifts from dark satire to serious political thriller create an uneven film, despite best efforts from its game leads.
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Theatrical Release: Sep 7, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $796,001
Synopsis: On the fifth anniversary of the end of the civil war in Bosnia, former hot-shot reporter Simon Hunt (Richard Gere) mysteriously shows up, five years after imploding on live television and disappearing into a self-imposed exile. Reunited with his cameraman, Duck (Terrence Howard), who has... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Jesse Eisenberg, Diane Kruger, Joy Bryant
Director: Richard Shepard
Screenwriter: Richard Shepard
Producer: Mark Johnson, Scott Kroopf, Bill Block
Composer: Rolfe Kent
Screenwriter: Richard Shepard
Producer: Mark Johnson, Scott Kroopf, Bill Block
Composer: Rolfe Kent
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The most intriguing parts of this film are contained in the voice-over montage in the beginning and a surprise ending, leaving a lot of filler in the middle.
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03/03/08
Gere has so much fun in his role it's almost unfair that he was paid for his efforts.
01/22/08
The movie is more concerned with mounting big screen infotainment and sidebar issues like the lure of 'that adrenalin rush and nonstop erection of fear and war,' than making sense of the confounding stage of world history.
01/12/08
a very poor man's Three Kings, minus the deft mixture of witty satire/raw emotion and solid chemistry amongst the three leads.
12/18/07
The action plot is lousy with cliched suspense scenes of back-road executions halted at the last possible instant.
12/17/07
Top Critic
The magazine piece was convoluted at best, and writer-director Richard Shepard doesn't make things much clearer.
11/08/07
Although the film initially plays like breezy fun, it begins to crumble under the weight of lofty ambitions and a scattershot tone.
11/08/07
...the cinematic equivalent of a loud and goofy garage band that hasn't quite mastered the art of staying in tune but sometimes hits you right in the happy zone.
10/15/07
Whenever the film threatens to get bogged down in self-seriousness, Shepard quickly retreats to satiric cynicism.
10/14/07
Gere is almost unmatched at portraying wacky characters like Hunt. He is so charismatic that you believe he can charm, manipulate and/or con just about anyone.
09/25/07
True to its word, there are plenty of ludicrous moments in 'The Hunting Party', which plays like a buddy adventure film.
09/25/07
By the time the end credits roll, you're still not sure what kind of movie The Hunting Party is supposed to be, other than just queasy.
09/22/07
It's a funny, horrible story (with black humor of the sort many war correspondents write about), shot mostly in Croatia and nicely paced.
09/22/07
Writer-director Richard Shepard's humor is tempered by a deadly serious undercurrent.
09/21/07
Hopefully, The Hunting Party will find the success it needs to keep Shepard making off-center movies because Hollywood doesn't always reward hard-to-categorize films like this one.
09/21/07
Top Critic
The Hunting Party is a complete bust, but the ways in which it fails are interesting.
09/21/07
Top Critic
Set in postwar Bosnia, The Hunting Party is all over the place in tone and seeming intent.
09/21/07
...the subject matter of fugitive war criminals in the former Yugoslavia doesn't mix well.
09/21/07
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