this has got to be one of the dumbest movies i've seen in a long time!!!
Beleive it or not I liked it. Sure, it has lots of continuity errors and badly explained character motivations, but its pace is exemplary, and the violence, surprisingly intense.
Believe it or not (I havent seen it), but I read an article about the guy who was the professional consultant and who the movie is loosely based on. From one footprint he can guess the direction, intention, weight etc. of a person. He puts his students through some tough training though, He drops them in the woods without anything but a knife and says "have fun getting out." Actually anyone can go to his school and learn these sorts of thingss...... if you have the money.
Until I checked IMDB, I thought you were talking about the Chistopher Lambert movie with the same name (but from 1995)
I enjoyed it.
The knife fighting was very realistic, intense and they genuinely seemed to grow more & more tired as they fought...unlike alot of other films where the actors seem to have limitless energy.
I normally do not like Benicio Del Toro but I thought he was quite good in it.
I recommend this one.
true Neville, it was entertaining in some aspects. i did enjoy some of the fight scenes between Del Torro and Tommy Lee Jones, particularly the hand to hand combat & the knife fighting, pretty realistic stuff.
i felt the story had a good premise but the characters were so underdeveloped. and torwards the end it seemed to almost turn into a comic book. i wish films about assasins/survivalist would go more into detail about their psychology because the whole ass-kickin Bronson thing has been done so much. i do see the high points though that you found in the hunted, and i do agree with you. the fight scenes were very good, kinda of a fresh breath in the current matrix/cgi world.
chopper2 wrote: "i wish films about assasins/survivalist would go more into detail about their psychology because the whole ass-kickin Bronson thing has been done so much. "
I really believe that was what they tried with this one, but I think they relied too much in their acts to explain what was going through the minds of Del Toro and Jones' characters. As a result, many interesting points are left underdeveloped, such as the characters having a distorted father-son relationship or the peculiarities of Jones' job: he teaches people how to kill and how to deal with it, yet has never personally killed anybody.
exactly, it would have been great if the story would've gone into more detail of why Jone's liked that line of work, or how he actually was chosen to be hired to do it. and also more of their childhoods, like Del Torro's, showing the path that got him where he was. maybe i'm seeing too "fruedian" into it, i should just get off my ass and write my own screenplay about these kind of people.