| Front Cover |
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| Movie Details |
| Director |
William Friedkin |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
R (Restricted) |
| Running Time |
94 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
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| Plot |
| 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 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 |
| Personal Details |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
1622 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Links |
Amazon US
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| Product Details |
| Edition |
Widescreen Edition |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
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097363397243 |
| Release Date |
8/12/2003 |
| Subtitles |
English |
| Audio Tracks |
English Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
French Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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