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Summary: "The Hunted" is One of the Year's Best Movies
Review: L.T. Bonham's (Tommy Lee Jones) student went off the deep end, so he had to track him down. Hallam (Benicio Del Toro) was the trained assassin who became traumatized after an incident in Kosovo. FBI agent Abby Durrell (Connie Nielsen) summoned the retired tracker to search for Hallam after a couple of hunters were murdered by him. Portland forests are now terrifying. This movie was spectacular! The knife battle at the end was extraordinary! More cutting than a deli sandwich shop! Sliceage! L.T. represented someone I know! Yes! Always running and getting sick because of heights. Comedy! I've been there, done that. I'm more trained than anybody in this movie. My mission is to write good reviews and make people think of them as preposterous. Only the intelligent people will understand the meaning of my reviews and appreciate them. I'm highly skilled and more qualified than L.T. So that will explain the insane reviews. Don't you get it? This is one of the best movies of the year!
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Summary: Excellent suspense but be warned!
Review: I saw this movie one day after it's cinematic release, and was suprised at the opening 15 minutes then (current affairs had us in the middle of the Iraq invasion), and wondering if this is the reason behind the long wait to go from screen to DVD.
Del Toro plays a "Black Op's" type of military specialist, who (it later transpires) was an A student of civilian instructor Tommy Lee Jones, in the deadly art of assassination among other things. Without giving too much away, Del Toro (constantly haunted by his military past) appears to have gone off the deep end, and all suspicions point to his involvement in some brutal murders. This is a cue for Tommy Lee to be dragged from retirement as the "only man" who can find him, and ultimately hunt him down. I don't think it's too much to say that the opening sequences in this movie are harrowing, and the whole subject matter is more than a little disturbing, and please - this movie is NOT for kids, even younger teenagers. The hunter/hunted action makes up the bulk of the film, and one can't help drawing comparisons with movies like US Marshals, and The Fugitive, but this is very different, and I believe much better. Del Toro is not a "good guy" being persecuted and chased wrongly, and we aren't looking for a conspiracy theory or gang of corrupt politicians to blame, and this adds much more believability and tension to the plot. Jones is very good in this "non governmental" role and is very believable in his demonstrated expertise, but Del Toro is the real star of the picture in my mind. He is cold, calm and brooding, killing without fear or conscience, whilst still fighting his inner demons. Direction is slick and inventive, and the locations used are breathtaking. This is a very very good movie, if you can endure the extremely graphic violence, and subject matter. Enjoy
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Summary: I'm trained by the Technical Advisor
Review: Tom Brown Jr. who was the survivalist tech. advisor for the movie was able to show a very very small portion of the skills he has and has taught others. That's why I love this movie so much, it shows the basic fundementals of his classes. (Which there are 32 and this shows those in the first class, haha.) Anyway, to really appreciate, look at the small details...like how Tommy Lee Jones walks. That is how Tom Brown and his students of a couple years walk...that's how we do a brisk walk in the woods and be quiet while walking. Also the fishing hook made by thorn in the bush that triggers the trap, we make that for fishing. So, if you think it would be great to walk in the woods and look at it as a safe haven, to be able to live indefinitely, make shelters, track anything, and move silently and unseen...
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Summary: Better than Rambo !
Review: This movie kicked ... . Tracking, survival, special operations and subsequent changes in personality, are all real things. This movie teaches us alot if we pay close enough attention to it. Action packed and pieced together well. Actors were very realistic and trained well for all the scenes. Do yourselves a favor and see it...... live it.
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Summary: One of this year Best Film!
Review: So, If you like action and great actors, this is the film to whatch. The Hunted, is a movie that is pretty much focus on knife fighting and what happens when you trained someone to kill and then that person can't stop killing. This movie is great, with great performances by two Academy Award Winning Actors, Yeah that's right Benicio del Toro and Tommy Lee Jones. This movie is for people who like and enjoy whatching movies, not for people whom sit a theater talk all the time without paying attention to the movie then come here and write a bad review about the film. For those BUNCH OF RUGRATS WITH NO CLASS AND WHOM DON'T KNOW WHAT MAKES A FILM A GREAT FILM PLEASE DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO THEM. Buy this DVD of THE HUNTED, you wont regreat it! I guaranteed you!
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Summary: A Brutal High Paced Thriller!
Review: Who cares about the critics?They dont speak for the movie viewer. Im going to keep this as simple as possible, this movie IS AWESOME. Director William Friedkin gives us this film about the clash between teacher and student in THE HUNTED. What grabs me (other than the film) is the flawless direction of the knife fight scenes which the depict the Phillipine knife fighting art of SAYOC KALI.This is best depiction of the fighting art itself in American Cinema. My hats off to the superb Benicio del Toro and Tommy Lee for pulling off memorable intense, bloody, sharp fighting scenes. I thought it was sort of unique the way Friedkin chose not to put music during the fighting scenes between Aaron Hallum(del Toro) and L.T. (Tommy Lee) for one reason. 1. This is where Hallum was taught how to kill with bare hands and weapons. The forest, nature itself was his classroom and his hunting ground for humans, the sounds of nature make the scenes more realistic,ominous and deadly. Overall, THE HUNTED is a classic William Friedkin brutal slugfest. A Fine tribute to the action genre as well as the Phillipine fighting art.
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Summary: FRIEDKIN STRIKES BACK!(Not that he ever left, you fools!)
Review: After the critical lambasting surrounding the release of "Jade", and the lukewarm reception of "Rules of Engagement",
'70s cinematic fireband William Friedkin once again galvanizes the soul with "The Hunted", an impassioned duet, an Oedipal wrestling match, a primal struggle that is his most audacious visual tapestry since "To Live an Die in L.A.". Under his stellar direction, Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro sizzle, stab, and scorch into an immortality of devastation, in this brimstone biblical tale of a soldier who wants to die like a soldier. You'll walk out of the room with grit on your face, having watched this filmic equivalent of a Johnny Cash song from a director who knows God, murder, and the evil that men do.
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Summary: An attempt at a review in five questions
Review: This film evokes many questions and offers few answers. For instance: 1)If the Deltoro character was supposed to be working in in a operational free float, why was he awarded a silver star at the beginning of the movie--an action requiring reams of documentation to accomplish? 2)How much longer does Hollywood think we, the ticket buyers and dvd renters of the globe, will buy the B.S. of seeing trackers getting their man with a few loving carreseses of a foot print or broken twig? 3)Why did the talented Deltoro model his performance of the chicken loving psycho on Michael Jackson? 4)How does a guy (super soldier or not) who's been awake for days and has the FBI the CIA AND the twig stroker hot on his tail manage to FORGE a knife out of a leaf spring in ten minutes--a feat a well rested custom knife maker with all the right tools would take at least week to accomplish? 4) What's the Abraham reference all about? God didn't let Abe actually go THROUGH with it! 5.)Is it possible that there was more to the plot that was hacked out because it made the CIA look even more amoral than it looked in the final cut which producers didn't think would be patriotic given the war in Iraq--that perhaps its inanity was due to this cutting? ...
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Summary: Portland Portland!!
Review: This movie was pretty entertaining. Jones played his usual part (really loved him in the Fugitive!!) but did it well as the teacher of the killer he is trying to "hunt" down. I am from Portland where this movie was filmed so it was more entertaining for me to see parts of the area around me that are in the film.
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Summary: Protecting our Resources
Review: THE HUNTED is an outstanding adventure into the psyche of why man teaches other men to go out and kill. In an ever-changing universe there remains one constant. And that's the main point: time and place may change but what has been taught can not be undone. It must be extinguished. This movie is about the morality of military and political expedience at the expense of those who must carry out policy. Benicio Del Toro and Tommy Lee Jones are extraordinary in this complex tale of the "father" who must bring down his "son" as an offering of forgiveness for his sins.
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