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The Hunted, Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Connie Nielsen (2003)
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Synopsis of the DVD Movie: The Hunted, Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Connie Nielsen (2003)
In the green woods of Silver Falls, Oregon, Aaron Hallam, a trained assassin AWOL from the Special Forces, keeps his own brand of wildlife vigil. After brutally slaying four deer hunters in the area, FBI Special Agent Abby Durrell turns to L.T. Bonham-- the one man who may be able to stop him. At first L.T. resists the mission. Snug in retirement, he's closed off to his past, the years he spent in the Special Forces training soldiers to become skilled murderers. But when he realizes that these recent slayings are the work of a man he trained, he feels obligated to stop him. Accepting the assignment under the condition that he works alone, L.T. enters the woods, unarmed--plagued by memories of his best student and riddled with gulit for not responding to Aaron's tortured letters to him as he began to slip over the edge of sanity. Furious as he is with his former mentor for ignoring his pleas for help, Aaron knows that he and L.T. share a tragic bond that is unbreakable. And, even as they go into their final combat against each other, neither can say with certainty who is "the hunted" and who is "the hunter."
DVD Movie Rating for: The Hunted
Rating two out of five stars
Movie Plot of: The Hunted
DVD Production Details of: The Hunted
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro
Director: William Friedkin
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby
Studio: Paramount Home Video
DVD Release Date: August 12, 2003
DVD Features:
Theatrical trailer(s)
Commentary by director William Friedkin
4 documentaries on the making of The Hunted
6 deleted scenes
Widescreen anamorphic format
DVD Easter Eggs
None
Cast of the movie: The Hunted
- Tommy Lee Jones .... L.T. Bonham
- Benicio Del Toro .... Aaron Hallam
- Connie Nielsen .... Abby Durrell
- Leslie Stefanson .... Irene
- John Finn .... Ted Chenoweth
- José Zúñiga .... Moret
- Ron Canada .... Van Zandt
- Mark Pellegrino .... Dale Hewitt
- Aaron DeCone .... Stokes (as Aaron Brounstein)
- Carrick O'Quinn .... Kohler
- Lonny Chapman .... Zander
- Rex Linn .... Powell
- Eddie Velez .... Richards
- Jenna Boyd .... Loretta
- Alexander Mackenzie .... Sheriff
- Hank Cartwright .... Construction Foreperson
- Gary Taylor .... Tactical Commander
- Michael Williamson .... Tactical Agent
- Alisha Garric .... Girl at Airport
- Bobby Preston .... Boy at Airport
- Nathan Sabatka .... Boy at Airport
- Brent Braun .... FBI Field Agent
- Jeff Gianola .... TV Reporter
- Steve Enfield .... FBI Field Agent
- Mike White .... Delta Colonel (as Michael John White)
- Mio R. Jakula .... Serb Commander (as Mio Drag Jakula)
- Neno Pervan .... Serb Guard
- Zoran Radanovich .... Serb Guard
- Caitlin Clements .... Girl in Kosovo
- Robert Blanche .... Crumley (uncredited)
- David S. Case .... The Trapper (J.W.) (uncredited)
- Johnny Cash .... Narrator (uncredited) (voice)
- Ryan Grove .... Extra (Waterfront Park Scene) (uncredited)
- Nina Hand .... Jogger (Waterfront Park scene) (uncredited)
- Anjenique Hughes .... Business Woman (uncredited)
- David Jackson .... Extra (uncredited)
- John Keyser .... FBI Agent (uncredited)
- Michelle Kinne .... Car Passenger (uncredited)
- Erin Michael .... Store Owner (uncredited)
- Warren Parrish .... Startled Hunter at Table (uncredited)
- Tara Walker .... Kosovoan Refugee (uncredited)
Photo Gallery of the movie: The Hunted
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Reviews of the movie: The Hunted
The movie is pretty well-produced overall, though there are a couple of glaring editing goof-ups (the knife being dunked into water, for example.) And the fact that it's clear Jones and Del Toro are doing much of their own stuntwork in the fighting sequences (and other places) is pretty impressive.
However, there is really nothing of substance here that will make you remember the movie long after you've seen it. While the action gets bloody at times, the actual struggling around is only okay at best. The Jones and Del Toro characters are thin, with little background revealed about them, and they don't have that much dialogue. There are some interesting themes that start to peek out, but they are simply not expanded on. (Like: Why didn't Jones' character answer those letters he got? You have to hear the explanation from director Friedkin on one of the DVD documentaries!) Ultimately, the movie becomes a simple-minded action movie, of the mentality of many direct-to-video movies.
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
