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Hunted, The

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3.3 User Score:

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller

Written by: David Griffiths
Peter Griffiths
Art Monterastelli

Directed by: William Friedkin

Release Date:
Theatrical: March 14, 2003
DVD: August 12, 2003

Running Time: 94 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for strong bloody violence and some language

Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Connie Nielsen, Jenna Boyd, and Leslie Stefanson

An FBI deep-woods tracker (Jones) captures a trained assassin (Del Toro) who has made a sport of hunting humans.

What The Critics Said

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88

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Walking in, I thought I knew what to expect, but i didn't anticipate how William Friedkin would jolt me with the immediate urgency of the action. This is not an arm's-length chase picture, but a close physical duel between its two main characters.

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80

Washington Post Rita Kempley

It's a good ride, briskly paced, well played and vividly photographed by Caleb Deschanel.

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75

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Isn't exactly fraught with psychological depth and nuance, but as a stalker-stalkee suspenser, the pic has some nice things going for it.

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75

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

Engrossing as it is, The Hunted is more a showcase for formidable talent than anything else. It's a brainy, exciting but shallow show -- an expert's action movie that almost runs out of breath.

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67

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

While the plot of The Hunted is tiresome and the character development is phlegmatic, the picture holds fascination in its determination to trim away chat and guff and focus on tempo and filmic textures.

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67

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

All about the thrill of the chase, and Friedkin challenges the antiseptic spectacle and fantasy flamboyance of computer-enhanced blockbusters with a lean, mean manhunt thriller and gritty, hard-edged style.

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63

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

Few modern thrillers aspire to look this striking.

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60

Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis

What keeps you watching isn't the story or the actors, none of whom are at the top of their form, but the relentlessness of Friedkin's vision. The film has great forward thrust -- Friedkin's a full-throttle guy -- and the director knows where to put the camera.

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60

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

Aided by cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, Friedkin works economically, lending the film the mark of a master craftsman, albeit of the coldly efficient variety. The terseness and surplus of technical skill make The Hunted surprisingly engaging.

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50

Variety Todd McCarthy

Routine, superficial manhunt stuff.

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50

Slate David Edelstein

Brutally exciting and sometimes brutally inept.

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50

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

The Hunted is so openly, defiantly derivative of 1982's "First Blood," you figure there has to be a copyright lawsuit brewing right this very minute.

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50

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Just a "Rambo" rehash.

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50

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

Friedkin has huffed and puffed and blown up a single chase sequence into the whole damn movie. You got your hunted, you got your hunter, and away they go. And go and go.

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50

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

The Hunted stalks the masculine psyche with sharp knives, but it tracks its audience too noisily to bag us.

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50

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

In one slack exchange, Del Toro intimates that the government wants to shut him up because he knows too much, but apparently someone decided that this thing was silly enough already and the matter was dropped.

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50

Dallas Observer Andy Klein

Jones seems to have trouble keeping up with the large amount of action he's required to participate in. And Del Toro seems ill-cast and ill-used.

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50

ReelViews James Berardinelli

This is schlock -– by-the-numbers action that ignores character development to the point where we find it hard to care whether L.T. catches Hallam.

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40

TV Guide Ken Fox

If your idea of a good time at the movies is watching two grown men go at it with fists and shivs and nasty wilderness booby-traps, then you're in luck.

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40

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

Aspiring to pure action -- several very long passages are wordless -- the movie ends up teetering on the brink of self-parody.

40

Film Threat Rick Kisonak

The bottom line is the movie's a mess. Friedkin would like one to believe there's more than meets the eye to his tale of two trackers.

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38

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

To be fair, Friedkin does amp up the tension when called for. If only it were all for some purpose, or in service to a story that actually went somewhere.

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38

Boston Globe Ty Burr

Del Toro does remind you of Brando here; unfortunately, it's the Brando of ''Apocalypse Now,'' the one with the green face and puffy line readings. Jones fares better, even if he wears the same grieving-for-humanity expression throughout the film.

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38

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

As in "The Edge," in which Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins were stranded in the wilds, you can earn a wildernesssurvival merit badge just from watching.

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30

LA Weekly Henry Sheehan

This superficial nonsense is easily ignored; that the movie runs out of gas at the midpoint isn't.

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30

Village Voice Michael Atkinson

Essentially a reheating of 1982's "First Blood" -- a psychologically wounded warrior-vet pits himself against civilized America -- but the fallout this time is simultaneously more ruthless, less emotional, and duller.

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30

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Has so little going for it, you wonder if you've missed something.

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30

Film Threat Robert Learner

The movie appears brutally cut which might explain its inability to develop a thought, much less any narrative momentum.

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25

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

It soon gets down to its real business: fights, face-offs, and showdowns mired in the shallowest sort of Hollywood machismo.

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25

New York Post Lou Lumenick

The only prize this shamelessly derivative schlock is likely to be in the running for is the year's dullest thriller.

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25

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Friedkin is steeped in gore, like some cinematic Macbeth, and it's obscuring his artistic vision.

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25

USA Today Mike Clark

You keep waiting for there to be more, but there never is -- other than the fact that it all gets gorier and uglier as the dyspeptic look on Jones' face progresses from a four- to a six-a-day scotch-and-peppermint schnapps hangover.

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20

The New York Times A.O. Scott

The stripped-down narrative is almost an apology for the ludicrous story -- but it's just not enough of one.

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10

Salon.com Charles Taylor

It's an A-list movie for the most brain-dead elements of the action-movie crowd.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 3.3 (out of 10) based on 16 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Nick B. gave it a 7:
This movie is filled with action and violence which is great. But the movie is set in Portland, Oregon and I live in Portland. They made this city seem like New York instead of the hippy infested town that it is. Not realistic at all!

Derek W. gave it a 2:
After watching this movie I went out and bought a t-shirt that said "I watched The Hunted and lived to tell about it". Stay away from this movie at all costs. If you must see it, con a friend into renting it when it comes out on video so you don't waste your own money on it.

Matt P. gave it a 6:
Other than it's disturbing opening sequence you won't remember a single thing about this movie ten minutes after watching it.

Carsten K. gave it a 7:
I expected "The Fugitive III", when I went to the cinema. But this movie is all about hunting the bad guy down. Two thirds of the film are chasing - one way or the other. I'm not sure, if I ever saw a movie like this one - although the suspense drops the longer the movie lasts.

John Y. gave it a 6:
The film provides a promising set-up; we learn what to anticipate -- chase sequences. And we receive two successfully executed ones. But then the movie ends, leaving the viewer feeling cheated of a more complete experience. The actors add some intrigue, but ultimately, at 94 minutes, "The Hunted" is in dire need of another act.

David K. gave it a 0:
How bad was this? AWFUL!

Zeke gave it a 0:
Ranks up there with the worst movies of all time. Pure unadulterated garbage.

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