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- 2019
- R
- Saban Films
- 1 h 38 m
- 2019
- R
- Saban Films
- 1 h 38 m
Summary Henry Cavill stars in this action-packed thrill ride that will shock you at every turn. When police detective Marshall (Henry Cavill) and local vigilante Cooper (Ben Kingsley) arrest a serial killer targeting women, they discover his game has just begun. The hunt is on as the murderer masterminds a series of deadly attacks from behind ba...
Directed By: David Raymond
- 2019
- R
- Saban Films
- 1 h 38 m
- 2019
- R
- Saban Films
- 1 h 38 m
Night Hunter
31
4.8
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Summary Henry Cavill stars in this action-packed thrill ride that will shock you at every turn. When police detective Marshall (Henry Cavill) and local vigilante Cooper (Ben Kingsley) arrest a serial killer targeting women, they discover his game has just begun. The hunt is on as the murderer masterminds a series of deadly attacks from behind ba...
Directed By: David Raymond
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
31
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
40% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
60% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
31
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
40% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
60% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
The cast handles the sometimes ludicrous plot shifts with relative equanimity, although Cavill seems like he’s trying way too hard to embrace his role as a conflicted cop and father attempting to protect his teen daughter while pursuing a killer ruthlessly targeting innocent young women.
This is such twaddle it becomes kind of fun, except that there’s an uncomfortable feeling – as with many vigilante movies – that the film is revelling in the sexual violence and covering itself with the fig leaf of justice-seeking.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 User Ratings
4.8
36% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
21% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
43% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 User Ratings
4.8
36% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
21% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
43% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
Η ιστορία ξεκινά όταν ο υπολοχαγός Marshall (Henry Cavill) συλλαμβάνει έναν κακοποιό του internet και ανακαλύπτει σιγά σιγά πως τα εγκλήματα του δεν σταματούν στην οθόνη του υπολογιστή του.
Το καστ εκτός από τον εξαίρετο Cavill (Man of Steel), απαρτίζουν η Alexandra Daddario (Baywatch) στον ρόλο της Rachel, Ben Kingsley (Schindler’s List, Gandhi), Stanley Tucci (The Hunger Games movies, The Lovely Bones), Nathan Fillion και ο Brendan Fletcher.
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At a time when television is easier to make than films, it's a pity that a quart of plot in a pint-sized pot is largely to blame for this muddled misfire, which wastes some promising ideas and an impressive cast.
The film is so clichéd and scattershot as to make Copycat look like Peeping Tom by comparison.
Night Hunter is good enough that we can see why a cast of this caliber would sign on and trek to Canada in the winter. There are good scenes, good lines, a couple of good performances. But whatever coherence the players saw on the page was lost in the trip between the shoot on set and the editing bay, from the looks of it.
Caught between a hero with no personality and a villain with way too much (Fletcher’s slobbering performance has to be seen to be believed), Raymond comforts himself with shots of people gazing pensively at clues and pulling grisly things from drains.
As Nomis steps up the pace like a runner losing balance and falling forward, the clichés pile up and plot points fly at us more like insecure stabs at holding our interest than naturally edgy developments.
Night Hunter is your typical late night thriller. Everything as been done before and well better, the screenplay just looks like a direct to video from the late '90 but at least the direction was relatively decent. The acting was also more than correct, Brendan Fletcher is really fine and both Henry Calvil and Ben Kingsley was also very decent. Overall a nice turn-off-your-brain movie.
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It's off to a good start with Cavill and Kingsley right, wrong. The premise is actually very good and it had real potential but the writer(s) have tried too hard to keep the story evolving at an unrealistic pace. The final result is a big pile of contrived nonsense that becomes more absurd by the scene if not the minute. No matter how good the cast is, they can't save this dog. No doubt the cast regret being involved with Night Hunter and they'll leave it off their resume. I certainly regret watching it.
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The entire thing just feels unfinished and unloved – which I’m sure was not the case at all but this is such a poor end product. Do you remember that time that you were at university and you were up at 3am with the 9am submission deadline getting closer by the second? Words had ceased to look like words, nothing made sense anymore and it had gotten to the point where you just said **** it” and submitted your essay without bothering to proofread it just so you were able to go and get drunk and forget about it? Yeah. That.
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Awards
UBCP/ACTRA Awards, Vancouver
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
ACTRA Awards
• 1 Nomination
