I think THE HUNTED is a real highlight in recent movie history. It's a special gem only a true movie geek can understand and appreciate.
Even the poster is infamous. It has Tommy Lee Jones watching Benicio Del Toro as he's pulling a gun out of his ass, or so it seems. Very mysterious, as THE HUNTED is clearly not about shoot-outs but explicit knife duels.
Man, this movie is the Star Wars Episode V for knife fanatics ! Someone saw some short clips of Bobby DeNiro in the Baseballgasm flick THE FAN and thought "Hey, that's sup'rc00l l0lz 101 ! Let's make a movie about that. And someone else actually greenlit it.
So we got that oldschool knife veteran, Darth Bonham, or better known as the guy from Under Siege who survived Steven Seagal's career as a fighting cook. Once, back in the days when there were REAL problems around, he trained Aaron Hallam aka THE MUMBLER and made him the unstoppable killing machine he is during this movie.
In a super realistic warfare sequence in the opening (which is clearly made to give some substance - or read, to give a reason for the whole chaos), we see Del Toro gettin' mindraped by the oh so gruesome scenario and going nuts.
THE HUNTED also features some truly scary elements. For example, that flashback scene, when Tommy shows his training camp. His killer-moustache scared the shit outta me! Really! Now that's a kickass guy you really don't wanna mess with!
I love it that these men are so good, they stick to their training stuff and prefer the same kind of knives over guns and all the other things that would make the whole easier for both sides. Because they just don't like guns. The scene in which padawan and teacher both built their knives for the final fight - genious !
Or Tommy's bungee-jumping stunt with that thorns sticking into him, that was a post-modern parody foreshadowing Jim Caviezel's Passion of the Christ - great stuff there.
And was it the same jungle the Predator hunted Arnie back in the past ? There were still some of Dutch's jungle traps around !
Interestingly, there's even another movie out called THE HUNTED. It has Christopher Lambert fighting samurai and ninjas and yea, that one's great too.
Even the poster is infamous. It has Tommy Lee Jones watching Benicio Del Toro as he's pulling a gun out of his ass, or so it seems. Very mysterious, as THE HUNTED is clearly not about shoot-outs but explicit knife duels.
Man, this movie is the Star Wars Episode V for knife fanatics ! Someone saw some short clips of Bobby DeNiro in the Baseballgasm flick THE FAN and thought "Hey, that's sup'rc00l l0lz 101 ! Let's make a movie about that. And someone else actually greenlit it.
So we got that oldschool knife veteran, Darth Bonham, or better known as the guy from Under Siege who survived Steven Seagal's career as a fighting cook. Once, back in the days when there were REAL problems around, he trained Aaron Hallam aka THE MUMBLER and made him the unstoppable killing machine he is during this movie.
In a super realistic warfare sequence in the opening (which is clearly made to give some substance - or read, to give a reason for the whole chaos), we see Del Toro gettin' mindraped by the oh so gruesome scenario and going nuts.
THE HUNTED also features some truly scary elements. For example, that flashback scene, when Tommy shows his training camp. His killer-moustache scared the shit outta me! Really! Now that's a kickass guy you really don't wanna mess with!
I love it that these men are so good, they stick to their training stuff and prefer the same kind of knives over guns and all the other things that would make the whole easier for both sides. Because they just don't like guns. The scene in which padawan and teacher both built their knives for the final fight - genious !
Or Tommy's bungee-jumping stunt with that thorns sticking into him, that was a post-modern parody foreshadowing Jim Caviezel's Passion of the Christ - great stuff there.
And was it the same jungle the Predator hunted Arnie back in the past ? There were still some of Dutch's jungle traps around !
Interestingly, there's even another movie out called THE HUNTED. It has Christopher Lambert fighting samurai and ninjas and yea, that one's great too.
