All Nonfiction
- Bullying
- Books
- Academic
- Author Interviews
- Celebrity interviews
- College Articles
- College Essays
- Educator of the Year
- Heroes
- Interviews
- Memoir
- Personal Experience
- Sports
- Travel & Culture
All Opinions
- Bullying
- Current Events / Politics
- Discrimination
- Drugs / Alcohol / Smoking
- Entertainment / Celebrities
- Environment
- Love / Relationships
- Movies / Music / TV
- Pop Culture / Trends
- School / College
- Social Issues / Civics
- Spirituality / Religion
- Sports / Hobbies
All Hot Topics
- Bullying
- Community Service
- Environment
- Health
- Letters to the Editor
- Pride & Prejudice
- What Matters
- Back
Summer Guide
- Program Links
- Program Reviews
- Back
College Guide
- College Links
- College Reviews
- College Essays
- College Articles
- Back
The Hunted MAG
When"The Hunted," starring Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro, made itsbig-screen debut, critics bashed it against the wall and lit it on fire, and forgood reason. A lack of intelligence and poor development make for a mess of amovie.
L.T. Bonham (Jones), a retired member of the Special Forces, ishired by the FBI to capture assassin Aaron Hallam (Del Toro), who's gone AWOLfrom the Special Forces. Once Bonham's best student, Hallam now hides in theOregon woods and hunts humans - deer hunters, actually.
The plot revolvesaround the relationship between a teacher and his student in military fighting.The knife-fighting and well-developed yet gruesome scenes are the only impressivemoments.
Director William Friedkin makes his only adequate move whenopening the film with a scene of a mesmerizing and horrifying murder. The clippulls you in but disappointment mounts as the movie proceeds.
The twocharacters spend much of their time defying gravity and physics. It's impossibleto believe a man can jump off a bridge as tall as the Golden Gate Bridge andsurvive. It's even more ridiculous to believe an old man can fall off a cliffinto dangerous rushing water, hitting rocks along the way, and stay afloat forhalf a mile.
Kudos, however, to the men of action, for Jones and Del Torobring their characters to life even with a dead script.
Thismovie is rated R.
Similar Articles
JOIN THE DISCUSSION
This article has 1 comment.
0 articles 0 photos 12292 comments