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Hunted, The

Hunted, The

Suitable For 15 Years And Over.Info Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Connie Nielsen, Leslie Stefanson, Jenna Boyd, Jose Zuniga

Director: William Friedkin

Summary: When the body count begins to rise in the woods, it's not the wildlife that needs to be afraid. An expert assassin is on the loose taking out the hunters. Now the man who trained the killer must take up the final challenge and face the demons in his own past.

When the body count begins to rise in the woods, it's not the wildlife that needs to be afraid. An expert assassin is on the loose taking out the hunters. Now the man who trained the killer must take up the final challenge and face the demons in his own past. Echoing Francis Ford Coppola's APOCALYPSE NOW, William Friedkin's THE HUNTED opens with a close-up of the protagonist, Aaron Hallam (Benicio Del Toro)--a Special Ops soldier who is witnessing atrocities in Kosovo. His battle stress soon turns him into a killing machine, as he murders hunters in the Oregon woods. Meanwhile, L.T. Bonham (Tommy Lee Jones) is living a solitary existence in the Pacific Northwest, rescuing wolves and living off the land. The Feds lure Bonham out of retirement, since he was responsible for training Hallam--and might be the only person alive who can stop him. Combining elements of RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD--in which Richard Crenna played the only man who could stop the battle-fatigued Sylvester Stallone--with THE PARK IS MINE--in which Jones played a Vietnam veteran who took over Central Park and booby-trapped it--THE HUNTED is an exciting chase film that is infused with a compelling streak of humanity amid all the blood and gore. Del Toro and Jones are both excellent, conveying a father-and-son-like relationship that is filled with intrigue. Johnny Cash's talk-rendition of Bob Dylan's 'Highway 61' opens and closes the film with gusto.

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Editor's Review

amazon.co.uk William Friedkin's taut direction highlights The Hunted, a bloodsport thriller that works best without dialogue. It's a prime vehicle for co-stars Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro, whose rugged screen personas are perfectly matched in a manhunt between a military assassin and the man who trained him to kill. Traumatised by atrocities in Kosovo four years earlier (the site of an action-packed prologue), Hallam (Del Toro) is seemingly psychotic and now killing in the forests of Oregon; Bonham (Jones) is lured out of retirement by a tenacious FBI agent (Connie Nielsen) to end Hallam's murder spree. The hackneyed plot is derivative to a fault (no surprise from the screenwriters of Collateral Damage), and the whole movie's a foregone conclusion, but Friedkin inspires fine work from his well-trained stars while exploring the ambiguity of Hallam's character. Lushly photographed by Caleb Deschanel, The Huntedis a survivalist's dream, militarily authentic and most effective when its primal instincts are cinematically expressed. --Jeff Shannon

Main Language: English
Region: Region 2
Year: 2003
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Runtime: 91 minutes
Certification: Suitable For 15 Years And Over.
Catalogue Number: 9464001000
Keywords: Action, Hunted, General, Adventure
Genre: Action/Adventure

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