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William Friedkin's taut direction highlights The Hunted, a bloodsport thriller that works best without dialogue. It's a prime vehicle for costa...(read more...)
rs 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. Traumatized 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 Hunted is a survivalist's dream, militarily authentic and most effective when its primal instincts are cinematically expressed. --Jeff Shannon
Director:
William Friedkin
MPAA: R
Running Time: 94 min.
Release Date: Mar 14, 2003
Cast:
Benicio Del Toro,
Connie Nielsen,
Eddie Velez,
Jenna Boyd,
John Finn,
Jos? Z??iga,
Leslie Stefanson,
Lonny Chapman,
Mark Pellegrino,
Rex Linn,
Ron Canada,
Tommy Lee Jones