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  • 2007
  • R
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2007
  • R
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 1 h 41 m

Summary TV News reporter Simon Hunt and cameraman Duck have worked in the world's hottest war zones: from Bosnia to Iraq, from Somalia to El Salvador. Together they have dodged bullets, filed incisive reports and collected Emmy awards. Then one terrible day in a Bosnian village everything changes. During a live broadcast on national television, ...

Directed By: Richard Shepard

Written By: Scott Anderson, Richard Shepard

  • 2007
  • R
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2007
  • R
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 1 h 41 m

The Hunting Party

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 22 Critic Reviews
54
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 17 User Ratings
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Summary TV News reporter Simon Hunt and cameraman Duck have worked in the world's hottest war zones: from Bosnia to Iraq, from Somalia to El Salvador. Together they have dodged bullets, filed incisive reports and collected Emmy awards. Then one terrible day in a Bosnian village everything changes. During a live broadcast on national television, ...

Directed By: Richard Shepard

Written By: Scott Anderson, Richard Shepard

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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55% Positive
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32% Mixed
7 Reviews
14% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 22 Critic Reviews
54
55% Positive
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32% Mixed
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14% Negative
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Like many of the best movies about war and its lingering echo, The Hunting Party is full of dark humor. Writer-director Richard Shepard, maker of 2005's "The Matador," is becoming a master at finding the right tone, balancing the seriousness of his characters' purpose with the madness of their intentions.
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When a movie is a hybrid of this sort, it can be tough to strike just the right tone. Mostly, The Hunting Party manages.
By Claudia Puig FULL REVIEW
70
Writer-director Richard Shepard assembles all the elements for a dark suspense comedy only to lose his way in a surfeit of plot mechanics and unlikely behavior.
By Kirk Honeycutt FULL REVIEW
63
Everything about this political thriller is ridiculous.
By Jack Mathews FULL REVIEW
50
Truth be told, none of it is actual living, and all of it is secondhand re-spinning of such better movies as "The Year of Living Dangerously" and "Welcome to Sarajevo." To use an antiquated newsman's cliche: Get me rewrite.
By Desson Thomson FULL REVIEW
40
A misfired, misguided would-be satire.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
25
A complete bust, but the ways in which it fails are interesting.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 17 User Ratings
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24% Mixed
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12% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 17 User Ratings
6.8
65% Positive
11 Ratings
24% Mixed
4 Ratings
12% Negative
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Production Company Intermedia, The Weinstein Company, Cherry Road Films, Cherry Hill Productions, Covert Media, Jadran Film, QED International, Scout Film, Sin Sentido Films
Release Date Sep 7, 2007
Duration 1 h 41 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline How can they find the world's most wanted war criminal when the C.I.A. can't? [by actually looking]
Website http://www.thehuntingpartymovie.com/
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