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Mood:
- BleakRoughSuspensefulExciting
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Plot:
- FugitivesSpecial AgentsChaseManhuntViolence SpreePsychologicalMurderChases and Races more...
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Genres:
- ActionThriller
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary90s
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Place:
- OregonWilderness
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Audience:
- Boys' Night
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Style:
- Gory
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticFast
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Score:
- BluesFolkRock
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Flag:
- ProfanityStrong Violent Content
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The Hunted, 2003
English
USA
Profile of The Hunted
The Hunted can be described as bleak, rough, and suspenseful. The plot revolves around a manhunt, special agents, and fugitives. The main genres are thriller and action. In terms of style, The Hunted is gory. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is fast paced. The Hunted is set, at least in part, in the wilderness. It is located in Oregon. It takes place in the 1990s and in contemporary times. The soundtrack of The Hunted is blues, folk, and rock. It is well suited for a boys' night. Note that it involves strong violent content and profanity.
Summary of The Hunted
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.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 11 March 2003 |
| Runtime: | 94 min |
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as L.T. Bonham
as Aaron Hallam
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Critics Reviews
The Onion (A.V. Club)
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- by: Nathan Rabin
Variety
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- by: Todd McCarthy
Users Reviews
- 30.March.2009
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- by: Parker in MN
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