The Hunt

I have no idea why horror is listed as one of the film's genres. Black comedy fits much better. Anyway, I had fun while wading through all that blood, and I don't care what it says about me. After all, when the Americans are able to make fun of all their taboo topics once every ten years, I’m ecstatic about how different it is from the constantly celebrated patriotism, riding on a giant wave of pathos. What's more, I loved Crystal’s approach, and I still have to think about how frustrating it must be when you're talking to someone whose head (or at least a substantial part of it) is gone all of a sudden. The film definitely deserves to have a higher rating. (05/30/2020)

A controversial fun satire that is a mix of Hunger Games and Hide and Seek! Finally, after a long time, a solid exploitation flick that gets going from the first minute and thankfully doesn't skimp on the gore. It sucks that within the first 15 minutes, the victims get a lot of sorting out, which I personally would have chosen otherwise, but so be it. Betty Gilpin may not be the best actress, but she's very confident in action, she doesn't fuck around, and the grittiness makes you trust her; and she can be sexy. It may be a B-movie at its core but it manages to surprise with entertaining twists and turns, where at times you have no idea who is the hunter and who is the prey, and this play with the viewer works quite well. The best though is the very final cat fight with Hilary Swank, which is the best female fight I've seen in a long time. The logic does falter, but there is decent action. Very entertaining, controversial, with a dose of dark humour and just enough violence. Out of five people, two left the theater, but I had fun. Story***, Action****, Humor***, Violence****, Entertainment****,Music***, Visual***, Atmosphere****. 7/10. (03/14/2020)

We've already had manhunting as a "hobby for the elite", but The Hunt takes this theme from a slightly different perspective. The film offers plenty of black-humour scenes and a pretty solid unpredictability – you really don't know who will die, when and how, which is a big plus. On the whole, I was bothered by the passages with too much talking that unnecessarily stretched out the running time. The Hunt is one of those films where I can understand any rating. Otherwise, Betty Gilpin pushed the envelope a little too hard at times with her bad-ass-look, whatever. (05/21/2020)

The Hunt is cross-genre bullshit that aims to please by going against the grain, but it ends up being just an action-revenge B-movie with comical brutality. However, the actress in the lead role is uniquely atypical. The most typical genre characters deliberately come in with a roar in the first few minutes so that the film is surprising in its exposition, setting the viewer up for a fresh experience, which may or may not suit you. (07/29/2020)

Or when you make a film where I just couldn’t understand what the creator was trying to convey... Damon Lindelof recently surprised me with his TV adaptation of Watchmen, and when I saw that he was diving into this film from the screenwriter's chair, I just had to check it out. But as they say... the deed went astray. The Hunt does offer some pretty good moments (the gas station scene, the final, finely crafted female fight between the lead and Hilary Swank), but as a whole, it doesn’t work at all. The lead actress was excellent in terms of action, and I mostly enjoyed the fights and tense moments, but when it comes to the dramatic aspects, it really fell short. The overall story didn’t capture my interest; everything felt so detached, like it was stitched together with a hot needle, and only then did they realize they should have given it more attention. And the attempts at supposedly clever jokes completely missed the mark. I didn’t expect miracles, but this was also a disappointingly mediocre experience. For me, it gets 42%. (03/29/2020)