Rotten
Ludicrous, plotless, ho-hum tale of lurid confrontation.
Rex Reed, New York Observer
The Hunted
Some men should not be found.
2003 · 1h 34m · R
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
William Friedkin
Overview
In the wilderness of British Columbia, two hunters are tracked and viciously murdered by Aaron Hallam. A former Special Operations instructor is approached and asked to apprehend Hallam—his former student—who has 'gone rogue' after suffering severe battle stress from his time in Kosovo.
Director and cast
- William Friedkin Director
- Tommy Lee Jones as L.T. Bonham
- Benicio del Toro as Aaron Hallam
- Connie Nielsen as Abby Durrell
- Leslie Stefanson as Irene Kravitz
- John Finn as Ted Chenoweth
- Mark Pellegrino as Dale Hewitt
- Ron Canada as Harry Van Zandt
- José Zúñiga as Bobby Moret
- Jenna Boyd as Loretta Kravitz
- Rex Linn as Powell
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
29%
Tomatometer
Rotten
There's too much talent on-screen and behind the camera for The Hunted to be dull, but it is predictable and disappointing, and we seem to be missing about a half-hour's worth of scenes that would have brought some depths to these characters.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
Essentially a reheating of 1982's First Blood ... but the fallout this time is simultaneously more ruthless, less emotional, and duller.
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
Rotten
By stripping an action thriller this close to the bone, director William Friedkin has removed too much meat.
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
Rotten
This is schlock -- by-the-numbers action that ignores character development to the point where we find it hard to care whether L.T. catches Hallam or whether they end up running after each other until the world ends.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
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First Blood (1982)
Action · Adventure · Thriller · War · R
When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Director
- Ted Kotcheff
- Cast
- Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy
IMDb
7.7
Rotten Tomatoes
86%
Metacritic
61
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