movie: the hunted

[K1052]

Originally posted by: Dominionion

Originally posted by: K1052
A very boring and pointless movie.

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William Friedkin is one of the best American directors active today. His films always contain layers of content and meaning that the viewer may or may not miss depending upon the viewer's ability to 'read' the film and their willingness to put that effort forth. The Hunted asks alot of questions that the active viewer will try to answer while watching the film... What responsibility do we bear for our children? Can Tommy Lee save what he created? Or must he destroy the monster he made? Has Tommy ended up creating the weapon of his own demise? Is Del Toro society's creation? Or Tommy's? As society has it's sins revisited upon itself, is Tommy putting Del Toro out of his pain or merely washing his own sins away? During the film Friedkin gives lots of cues upon which to draw our conclusions.

While Friedkin's films may contain action, the meat of the films is almost always to be found on a psychological level. If you look at the Hunted as just an action film, then yes, it's no 'xXx'.

Then please explain "Deal of the Century".

I just think the plot was not laid out very well. Did anyone else notice that Del Toro did not kill any police for the first 2/3 of the movie but then decides to start doing so with no apparent reason?

 

[BatmanNate]

This movie was ridiculous. Especially the fight scene at the end where the characters go to all this trouble to fashion woodsy weapons and build fires and do all this stuff over a completely unrealistic timespan to conduct completely unrealistic hand to hand combat where each of them sustains completely ludicris amounts of personal injury before the pointless movie comes to its pointless end. 3 thumbs down.

EDIT: And I'm not going to go off on the hint of cliched character development because I'll just pretend this was supposed to be a bad action movie and nothing further.

 

[JHoNNy1OoO]

I saw it in the theatres when it came out and I enjoyed it. Benicio is an awesome actor and Jones also. Really the only thing that drove this movie. It's not an action packed movie but like the title says its about the hunt. Sure it could've been a bit better but you can't do anything about it now. Definately rental material.

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[ThePresence]

Quite possibly the worst movie I have ever seen.

 

[isaacmacdonald]

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
This movie was ridiculous. Especially the fight scene at the end where the characters go to all this trouble to fashion woodsy weapons and build fires and do all this stuff over a completely unrealistic timespan to conduct completely unrealistic hand to hand combat where each of them sustains completely ludicris amounts of personal injury before the pointless movie comes to its pointless end. 3 thumbs down.

EDIT: And I'm not going to go off on the hint of cliched character development because I'll just pretend this was supposed to be a bad action movie and nothing further.

ooophh. I forgot about the ending. That bit with the "knife making" was contrived to a physically nauseating extent.

 

[Hubris]

God, what a horrible movie. I'm extremely lenient in criticizing movies, and this one was HORRIBLE. I kept waiting for some sort of closure or reason for him going whacko, but there was nothing. I can't believe no lynchings took place for that thing.

 

[Dominionion]

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: Dominionion

Originally posted by: K1052
A very boring and pointless movie.

???

William Friedkin is one of the best American directors active today. His films always contain layers of content and meaning that the viewer may or may not miss depending upon the viewer's ability to 'read' the film and their willingness to put that effort forth. The Hunted asks alot of questions that the active viewer will try to answer while watching the film... What responsibility do we bear for our children? Can Tommy Lee save what he created? Or must he destroy the monster he made? Has Tommy ended up creating the weapon of his own demise? Is Del Toro society's creation? Or Tommy's? As society has it's sins revisited upon itself, is Tommy putting Del Toro out of his pain or merely washing his own sins away? During the film Friedkin gives lots of cues upon which to draw our conclusions.

While Friedkin's films may contain action, the meat of the films is almost always to be found on a psychological level. If you look at the Hunted as just an action film, then yes, it's no 'xXx'.

Then please explain "Deal of the Century".

I just think the plot was not laid out very well. Did anyone else notice that Del Toro did not kill any police for the first 2/3 of the movie but then decides to start doing so with no apparent reason?

Ha! Everyone knows that film was made by an Evil Pod Person Alien Replicant! As explained in Oliver Stone's next made for HBO Docudrama!

 

[Hubris]

Originally posted by: Dominionion

Originally posted by: K1052
A very boring and pointless movie.

???

William Friedkin is one of the best American directors active today. His films always contain layers of content and meaning that the viewer may or may not miss depending upon the viewer's ability to 'read' the film and their willingness to put that effort forth. The Hunted asks alot of questions that the active viewer will try to answer while watching the film... What responsibility do we bear for our children? Can Tommy Lee save what he created? Or must he destroy the monster he made? Has Tommy ended up creating the weapon of his own demise? Is Del Toro society's creation? Or Tommy's? As society has it's sins revisited upon itself, is Tommy putting Del Toro out of his pain or merely washing his own sins away? During the film Friedkin gives lots of cues upon which to draw our conclusions.

While Friedkin's films may contain action, the meat of the films is almost always to be found on a psychological level. If you look at the Hunted as just an action film, then yes, it's no 'xXx'.

/falls over laughing


Riiiiiiight. The director MAY have meant for that to be the 'message' in the film, but his execution of that message was laughable, to say the least. It was ham-handed, clunky and poorly fashioned.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Originally posted by: Hubris
God, what a horrible movie. I'm extremely lenient in criticizing movies, and this one was HORRIBLE. I kept waiting for some sort of closure or reason for him going whacko, but there was nothing. I can't believe no lynchings took place for that thing.

I agree. It was an utter waste of time and money.