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- 1980
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 37 m
- 1980
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 37 m
Summary The story of professional bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson (Steve McQueen).
Directed By: Buzz Kulik
- 1980
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 37 m
- 1980
- PG
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 37 m
The Hunter
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Summary The story of professional bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson (Steve McQueen).
Directed By: Buzz Kulik
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
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22% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
78% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
31
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
78% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
The picture isn't bad, really—it's just a little too soft and eager to please, like the family films (circus pictures and suchlike) that John Wayne made in the 60s to soften his image.
Buzz Kulik has directed some slam-bang chases, but their effectiveness is blunted by a script that meanders between the bounty hunter's missions and a boring relationship with his housemate (Kathryn Harrold), who is heavy with child. [12 Aug 1980]
Because McQueen can be so effective in action pictures, The Hunter is all the more frustrating: Didn't anybody point out that the script was a mess that made no sense? Didn't anybody have the guts to? Maybe they thought superstar McQueen would save the day. Pictures like this could finish him off.
All of this may be based on fact, but as presented in the cutesy script by Ted Leighton and Peter Hyams, it has the hollow ring of counterfeit coin and the formulaic symmetry of a made-for-TV movie. [11 Aug 1980, p.69]
An exceptionally clumsy, unpleasant action-melodrama. [1 Aug 1980, p.C12]
Even this garbage-can world deserves a better grade of junk. [7 Aug 1980, p.B4]
THE HUNTER is more dead than alive. Supposedly based on a real bounty hunter's life, this episodic film never focuses on anything long enough for the audience to care about it, and characters race in and out of the story without introduction or development.
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Awards
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
