Benicio Del Toro, Connie Nielsen, Eddie Velez
William Friedkin's taut direction highlights The Hunted, a bloodsport thriller that works best without dialogue. It's a prime vehicle for costars Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro, whose rug...( read more
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DVD Release Date: August 12, 2003
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Flixster Reviews (1,095)
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September 24, 2009Started so well but turned into a poor man?s U.S. Marshals towards the end. Disappointing!
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May 3, 2008The Hunted was to me an unimpressive film that I feel like I almost wasted my time seeing. Even with one of my fave actors, Belicio Del Toro, that doesn't change the fact that the overall movie was extremely disappointing.
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April 24, 2008Aaron Hallam: If you cross this line, you better be ready to kill me.
A chase movie with lots of bloody action.
In way of plot, the movie doesn't get to detailed. Benicio Del Toro is a special forces soldier running amok in the woods and Tommy Lee Jones, his former trainer, is...( read more) -
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October 22, 2009Pretty good story, sweet fight scenes, and of course, Del Toro and Jones are both awesome. Great action flick.
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October 17, 2009The film opens in 1999, with the war in Kosovo in full swing. A small group of elite American soldiers, including Aaron Hallam (Del Toro), have been sent in to assassinate a high-ranking Serbian soldier. Though Hallam successfully carries out the mission, his psyche is seemingly ...( read more)
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September 7, 2009mean as how he was taught how to make shit and like th hand to hand combat parts...
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August 12, 2009alrite it just seemed kinda pointless. theyre chasing after some wildman who lives n a forest...yipee. mayb if it had bigger stars n it id lyk it bttr idk
Critic Reviews
May 4, 2005
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
March 14, 2003
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
The Hunted serves mostly as a reminder that three Academy Award winners are as capable of making a silly movie as anyone. full review
March 14, 2003
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Technically, it's well made, but it wasn't worth making. full review
March 14, 2003
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
The Hunted isn't exactly fraught with psychological depth and nuance, but as a stalker-stalkee suspenser, the pic has some nice things going for it. full review
March 14, 2003
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
The sight of Jones expending his sizable acting chops on this piece of macho blowhard fluff is distressing only if you can't relax and appreciate The Hunted on a camp level, where it functions quite h... full review
March 14, 2003
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
What makes the movie fresh is that it doesn't stand back and regard its pursuit as an exercise, but stays very close to the characters and focuses on the actual physical reality of their experience. full review
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