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Summary: Like "Where's Waldo" But Stupider
Review: Terrible. Awful. A travesty. Any viewer should get a check from the filmmaker. Arrgh.
Rating:
Summary: What A Dissapointment
Review: You'd think with two major stars (Tommy Lee Jones & Benicio Del Toro) this movie would work, but these two guys have absolutely no on screen chemistry whatsoever. But, they are not totally too blame. The plot is very weak, meandering, and basically nonsensical. The chase scenes are typical Hollywood action cliches. This movie was billed as a suspense drama, but the only suspense I encountered was when it was going to end. Thankfully, Benicio Del Toro can be forgiven for this movie after seeing his marvelous performance in 21 grams. The same can be said for Tommy Lee Jones, as he did a good job in The Missing. As for William Friedkin, a once brilliant Director has now been involved in two stinkers in a row. Hopefully, his next project will be indicitive of the William Friedkin of the past.
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Summary: boring
Review: save your money for something you can watch more than once.
Rating: 
Summary: WOW
Review: I rented this movie for Christmas time hoping to see a great movie and YES it was the greatest movie I've seen in 2003.To my biggest surprise the movie starts off with the war in Kosovo where the serbs are so vividly and accurately described
killing innocent Albanian civilians as they burn down their
towns and villages. What serbs don't know is that the Americans are observing their massacres from the very same spot so SAS forces head on and one soldier goes and slaughters the serb commander who gave orders to kill everyone in the town but when this soldier comes back home to U.S.A. he can not let go of the horrible things he saw.
The killings and slaughtering of hundreds of Albanian men,
children,women and elder people by cruel and idiotic serbs haunt him and change the path of his life. So back in U.S.A. he protects deers and other animals and kills all their killers.This movie is so great and it makes you do a lot of thinking.
Only once you've seen this movie you can have some idea what really went on in Kosovo and how bad it really was (and can be). Highly Recommended for all.
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Summary: Braindead...At best.
Review: All the negative reviews that this pathetic film is garnering are very much to the point.
Not only are two great actors puzzling with their appearances in such a sorry flick but there seems to be a worrying trend in casting good actors in bad films lately. "Hunted" is nothing more than a rip-off from the 1st Rambo film with more...knives. There is just an excuse for a plot (and a bad excuse at that) and there's practically minimal dialogue as it would be close to impossible to adapt any meaningful dialogue to an almost inexistent storyline.
Speaking of that, the plot is basically about an "unnofficial army trainer" (T.L Jones) who goes after one of his most prized "students" when the latter "loses it" and starts chopping up people up in the mountains where he's found refuge after a blurry involvement in...Kosovo has made him a walking psychological trauma.
From there on the barrage of cliches is unrelenting. The "killing machine" who cant be caught unless the "teacher" tracks him down. The "killing machine" who evades scores of police cars in the most unlikely circumstances and butchers up other trained- and multiple in numbers- cops, agents, etc.
The ingenuity of the "killing machine" who has time enough -as does his teacher- to construct a knife from scratch while being in hot pursuit by half the poilice force and the FBI in his area.
And so on and on and painfully on.
Of course, any b-movie is better than this because, at least, a b-movie doesnt take itself seriously. "Hunted" does and it becomes all the worse a film for it.
I'd thought, silly me, that Hollywood had given up making braindead films like this. I'll think again then, thank you.
Avoid it like the plague.
Rating: 
Summary: Junk...and a bloodbath, too.
Review: This would be a standard Tommy Lee chase picture except for all those scenes the other reviewers describe as "realistic". Tommy and Benny apprarently have no muscle, no tendons, no arteries. They just hack and hack and keep on hacking. I like action and maybe I'm getting old but I am so damn tired of seeing over-the-top butchering of arms, legs, torsos. Enough already! As for the story, its entirely cliches, start to finish. To make things even worse, we're supposed to feel sorry for Benny (war vet snaps cliche). What a terrible waste of two fine actors.
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Summary: Solid action film that delivers
Review: As far as Hollywood chase films are concerned, Tommy Lee Jones has the market cornered. Since his academy award winning performance in The Fugitive, it seems like he's starred in just about every chase flim since. The characters that he plays are all slightly different but essentially the same. But there's three things you can count on with most of these films, and that is they're an entertaining ride from the beginning, there's inevitably an action scene involving water or a water fall, and old Tommy always gets his man, dead or alive. ~The Hunted~ moves along quickly, beginning with Benicio Del Toro's character on a search and destroy mission in Kosovo. He mission is successful and he is awarded the Silver Star for Valour, however this success comes with a price - his sanity. As it turns out, the boy is a killing machine gone rogue, currently murdering innocent civilians in the forest, and the only person who can match his skill and apprehend him, is the guy who trained him in the first place. Tommy Lee Jones plays a character based on a real individual, who trains the military Special Forces to survive in the wilderness, track animals and humans with hardly anything to work with, and expertly kill with a minimum of fuss. Now with all the necessary background information firmly in place, the stage is set, and the chase commences... The most fascinating thing to watch in the film is the knife battles between Tommy Lee Jones and Del Toro. One can see that the actors have been expertly trained and have spent many hours rehearsing to ensure these knife scenes come off in a realistic fashion. The battles do in fact run a little too long, as with any fight on the silver screen, but that's the only unreal aspect, otherwise they're extremely believable. ~The Hunted~ delivers on all counts - this is a solid action film.
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Summary: Two great actors, one terrible film
Review: This movie is contrived and implausible, and I don't know how it can be billed as a thriller with its total lack of suspense. Why these fine actors chose to act in such a film, I'll never know, but I don't know how either of them kept from rolling their eyes when both of them, during a police chase, found time to forge and create their own knives. Give me a break. The tiny side plots about Del Toro's love life and Jones' work for the wildlife service are there, I suppose, to make their characters seem more interesting. The only thing I can imagine making them more interesting is their refusing these roles. I'm so glad I rented this movie before purchasing. Now I only have to lament the loss of four bucks. Skip it.
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Summary: Routine and predictable
Review: This is a film about a soldier called Aaron Hallam (Benicio del Toro) who works for the usual super-elite, super-secret special forces outfit. But he goes off the rails and suddenly here he is in the woods of Oregon killing people with his big knife. At which point the FBI call up L. T. Bonham (Tommy Lee Jones), the man who taught Hallam everything he knows and who is peculiarly skilled and tenacious at conducting manhunts (So not the most original piece of casting of all time then...) The rest of the film is about how neither his old special forces bosses not the cops are anywhere near hard enough to catch and restrain Hallam but Bonham of course is. And, yes, it is as routine and predictable as it sounds. I can imagine this film being quite engaging for adolescent boys (if its makers hadn't foolishly made it too violent to escape an R rating) but for adults it has very little to offer. There's a father-son thing going on between Hallam and Bonham that is enormously contrived and unconvincing and has the feel of something tagged on at the last minute in a failed bid to add a little emotional depth to a film that doesn't have any. It is decently enough acted especially by Jones -though he is surely getting a bit old for this kind of part - and pretty efficiently directed by Friedkin. I just wish he could have found something more interesting to direct.
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Summary: Blood Sport
Review: The Hunted is a decent, if somewhat predictable action thriller, that benefits from its solid casting and a sure hand calling the shots. The story begins some years ago in the war torn region of Kosovo. Not only does the special forces team have to complete the mission at hand, they must also take in, and deal with the aftermath of the horrors commited at the hands of a tyrant. One such soldier, Aaron Hallam (Benicio Del Toro), was so traumatized by what he saw, in present day, he has now turned seemingly psychotic. Hallam is now killing in the forests of Oregon. His former Commander and the man who taught him everthing he knows about combat, retired LT.Bonham (Tommy Lee Jones) is lured back into service by headstrong FBI agent Abby Durrell (Connie Nielsen), who needs his help to end Hallam's murderous spree. The film is a game of cat and mouse Director William Friedkin keeps the action moving at such at frenetic pace, and the performances are so good from Jones and Del Toro (better than the trailers led me to believe anyway), that I can (almost) forgive the bad script. Fortunately, the action is well staged too, and that makes things a bit more fun. Del Toro and Jones are intense as adversaries and come across evenly matched throughout the film. Friedkin's audio commentary is a nice track, although I kind of wish it were a bit more screen specific, that said, it's never boring. There are four featurettes on the making of The Hunted, each one, focusing on a different aspect of the production. For my money, the best of these, concerns the intricacies of staging the film's final confrontation. Friedkin also saw fit to include six deleted scenes that were wisely cut from the final film. Theatrical trailers top off the disc's bonus material. Better than I thought it would be, or its story would have you believe, The Hunted is worth your time. Friedkin, who also did The French Connection, certainly knows a thing or two about action movies and is able to have the actors rise above a bad script
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