If the director traffics in the realm of black comedy, any attempts to win us over or encourage sympathy or empathy with the rollicking hell-raisers on screen tend to give off a bad odor.
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09/20/07
The Hunting Party (2007)
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Reviews Counted:86
Fresh:45
Rotten:41
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.
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... [More]
Starring: Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Jesse Eisenberg, Diane Kruger
Director: Richard Shepard
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Reviews for The Hunting Party
Top CriticA forgettable contribution to all those movies about tormented, gonzo newsmen, stranded in some hellish outpost (in this case, Bosnia), who drink to drown those terrible memories but are committed to news, news, news.
09/20/07
Top CriticThe movie, based on an Esquire article about a group of reporters who sneaked into Bosnia to catch the nation’s most notorious war criminal, goes so overboard with printing the legend that barely a note of it is feasible.
09/20/07
It's a testament to the convictions of Gere and Howard that the movie succeeds at all; without them, The Hunting Party would continually be shooting itself in the foot.
09/19/07
Immersed in cynicism and dark humour, this movie wins us over early on and then holds our attention with a compelling story and a trio of interesting central characters.
09/17/07
wants to cover a lot of ground, but shortchanges most of it.
09/17/07
It's likely you've heard that "war has its bright side," but in The Hunting Party, Duck (Terrence Howard) speaks with the sort of authority that comes with experience, as if he's telling you something you don't know.
09/15/07
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09/15/07
A cynical political thriller about reckless TV journalists-turned-bounty hunters, highlighting the absurdity of war.
09/15/07
Politics aside, The Hunting Party is a breezy, occasionally bumpy ride that ultimately becomes a satisfying journey.
09/14/07
All you need to know about The Hunting Party is the film's opening disclaimer: "Only the most ridiculous parts of this story are true."
09/14/07
[Director] Shepard strikes just the right absurd, satirical tone until near the end, when he allows the film to wrap up a bit too conveniently.
09/14/07
Top CriticThe Hunting Party combines just the right amount of dark humor and war-is-hell mentality to show what happens when war journalists take matters into their own hands.
09/14/07
...plays like the gonzo journalism version of Hotel Rwanda, with genocide and jokes sharing equal screen time.
09/14/07
A sour, disenchanted war comedy that affects a breezy style, The Hunting Party was originally called Spring Break in Bosnia.
09/14/07
Top CriticA political statement cloaked in the animal skin of satire, Party is more easily digested as a highly effective acting exercise than a brutal karate-chop to geopolitical-soft minds.
09/13/07
Has a few moments of Hunter Thompsonish comic inspiration, but its vibe feels more untethered by the minute.
09/13/07
[A] bitterly funny pill of a flick...
09/13/07
The Hunting Party is a not dark enough, not comic enough dark comedy about the aftermath of the Serbo-Bosnian War.
09/13/07
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