Time and again Hallam is cornered and trapped by Bonham, and time and again Hallam manages to escape. agent tracking down an assassin (Del Toro). End of story? Hardly, we're only a half hour into the film. Within hours, he has found Hallam and the F.B.I., which was never far behind, closes in and arrests the suspect. So far, so good.īonham goes into the woods, alone, unarmed with the parting words, "If I'm not back in two days I'm dead." Jones, with a leathery face that resembles a worn out World War II bomber jacket, is one of the few actors who can actually get away with saying that cheesy line. In other words, it takes one to catch one. The Feds persuade Bonham to come out of retirement to hunt down his former student. Of course, the killer is Hallam who has cracked, gone AWOL from the Special Forces, and is now on a private crusade. Two other hunters are also killed in another location, and the F.B.I. One by one, the hunters are killed despite their impressive armament. In a strange disembodied voice which seems to come out of nowhere, the stranger tells the hunters that they are not sportsmen and are actually just murderers hunting down deer just for the thrill of it. Two hunters are tracked down and savagely murdered by a mysterious figure outraged by their high tech weapons with state-of-the-art sights and high powered bullets. Hallam (Del Toro) escapes a number of times throughout the film.Īs we're introduced to Bonham, the film changes location to the deep woods of rural Oregon. Home is a tiny cabin deep in the primal forest. Bonham (Jones) - Hallam's mentor and teacher - lives in retirement in the outermost regions of British Columbia. The film flashes forward to present day where L.T. Hallam is rewarded with the Silver Star for valor, but it's faint compensation for the hideous nightmares he now suffers from the experience. One scene is particularly moving when a young girl - at the height of the killing - retrieves her stuffed animal from a pile of bodies of her dead relatives who were just butchered by Serbian soldiers. Director William Friedkin provides startling images of a massive firefight. Del Toro, as Aaron Hallam, is a Special Forces operator who's on a covert mission to assassinate a Serbian officer carrying out atrocities against Albanian civilians.
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The movie actually begins with great promise as it opens with non-stop action depicting a battle scene during the war in Kosovo.
(CNN) - The new psychological thriller "The Hunted," proves once again that even performances by two Academy Award-winning actors - in this case Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro - can't save a misconceived, misguided project and a one-note premise.
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