The Art of Tracking the Story of the Skill Not the Kill Movie
| The Hunted | |
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| Directed past | William Friedkin |
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| Cinematography | Caleb Deschanel |
| Edited by | Augie Hess |
| Music past | Brian Tyler |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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| Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | The states |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $55 million |
| Box office | $45.v million[1] |
The Hunted is a 2003 American action thriller film directed past William Friedkin and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio del Toro, and Connie Nielsen.
Plot [edit]
U.S. Army Sergeant Commencement Class Aaron Hallam, a former The states Delta Force operator, has spent much of his career performing covert assassinations and black operations for the U.South. government. He is awarded the Silver Star for his service in the Kosovo War, but is left wracked by postal service-traumatic stress disorder from the atrocities he witnessed.
In the wilderness of Silver Falls State Park, Oregon, Hallam encounters two deer hunters equipped with expensive scoped rifles. Hallam tells them that, due to their use of guns and scopes, they are not "true hunters". The hunters pursue him, but are overwhelmed by Hallam's tactics and traps and killed.
L.T. Bonham, a quondam civilian teacher of military survival and combat preparation, lives secluded deep in the woods of British Columbia. He is approached to help apprehend Hallam, one of his onetime students. Bonham agrees and is asked to piece of work with the FBI task force pursuing Hallam, led by Assistant Special Amanuensis in Accuse Abby Durrell. Bonham discovers Hallam'due south personal effects in a tree and apace encounters Hallam. As the two of them fight, Hallam is struck by an FBI tranquilizer and taken into custody.
During his interrogation, Hallam is uncooperative and looks mainly to Bonham, who he regards as a father figure of sorts. The FBI, unsure of what to do, hand him to the custody of his fellow JSOC operators, who tell the FBI that Hallam cannot stand trial due to the classified operations he had participated in. While beingness transported, the operators point that they intend to kill Hallam to ensure his silence; Hallam manages to kill all the operatives and escape.
Alerted to the incident, Bonham and the FBI search for Hallam. Bonham finds him at the house of his ex-girlfriend and her daughter in Portland, but he flees later on Abby arrives to auscultate him. Pursued by the FBI and the Portland Police force Bureau, Hallam ambushes and kills pursuing FBI agents in a sewer and attempts to board a streetcar to blend in, merely when the police block the span the streetcar is on, he dives off the bridge and flees upstream.
Resurfacing up the river, Hallam crafts a knife out of reclaimed metallic, as Bonham taught him. Meanwhile, Bonham crafts his own knife out of stone and enters the wilderness alone in search of Hallam. Yet, Bonham is defenseless by one of Hallam's traps and is thrown down a waterfall. Surviving, he meets Hallam at the bottom, and they engage in mitt-to-mitt combat. During the fight, the two sustain severe injuries, and Bonham's knife is broken, only Bonham manages to gain the upper manus and stab Hallam with his own knife, killing him as Abby and the FBI arrive.
Bonham, mostly recovered, returns to his abode in British Columbia. He starts to burn Hallam's letters, in which he expressed his concerns over the things he witnessed during his service.
Cast [edit]
- Tommy Lee Jones as L.T. Bonham
- Benicio del Toro as Sergeant Aaron Hallam
- Connie Nielsen as FBI Special Amanuensis Abby Durrell
- Leslie Stefanson every bit Irene Kravitz
- John Finn equally FBI Special Agent Ted Chenoweth
- José Zúñiga as FBI Special Agent Bobby Moret
- Ron Canada as FBI Special Agent Harry Van Zandt
- Marking Pellegrino equally Dale Hewitt
- Jenna Boyd as Loretta Kravitz
- Aaron DeCone as Stokes (as Aaron Brounstein)
- Carrick O'Quinn every bit Kohler
- Lonny Chapman as Zander
- Rex Linn as Powell, The Hunter
- Eddie Velez equally Richards, The Hunter
- Alexander MacKenzie as Sheriff
- Johnny Cash as The Narrator (uncredited)
Production [edit]
The film was partially filmed in and effectually Portland, Oregon and Silvery Falls State Park. Portland scenes were filmed in Oxbow Park, the South Park Blocks, and Tom McCall Waterfront Park.[2] The technical adviser for the film was Tom Brown Jr., an American outdoorsman and wilderness survival expert. The story is partially inspired by a real-life incident involving Brown, who was asked to track downwardly a former student and Special Forces sergeant who had evaded capture by authorities. This story is told in Tom's book, Case Files Of The Tracker. Chapter ii of this book, "My Frankenstein," describes Brown'due south tracking and fight with a former special operations veteran.
The hand-to-hand combat and knife fighting in the motion picture featured Filipino Martial Arts. Thomas Kier and Rafael Kayanan of Sayoc Kali were brought in by Benicio del Toro.[three] They were credited as knife fight choreographers for the flick.
Reception [edit]
Box office [edit]
The box office for the film was less than its reported production budget of $55 million.[4] The Hunted opened on March 14, 2003 at #iii in 2,516 theaters across North America and grossed $xiii.48 meg during its opening weekend.[5] It went on to gross $34,244,097 in Northward America and $11,252,437 internationally markets for a worldwide total of $45,496,534.[4]
Disquisitional response [edit]
The overall disquisitional reaction to the picture show was negative. It scored a "Rotten" 29% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 148 reviews.[6]
Many reviewers noted striking similarities to First Blood, with which this film was unfavorably compared. Rolling Rock called it "Only a Rambo rehash."[7] While there was some praise for the cinematography and the action scenes, much criticism was directed at the thin plot and characterization, and the full general implausibility. Rex Reed of the New York Observer called it a "Ludicrous, plotless, ho-hum tale of pulp confrontation."[ citation needed ] The UK magazine, Total Film said the flick was "scarcely exciting to watch."[8]
Nonetheless, the moving-picture show as well received praise from other loftier profile critics, particularly for the fact it kept the special effects and stunts restrained. For instance, Roger Ebert said, "Nosotros've seen so many fancy high-tech computer-assisted fight scenes in contempo movies that we presume the fighters can fly. They live in a world of gravity-free speed-upward. Not and so with Friedkin'south characters."[9] He reviewed the motion-picture show on his ain site and scored it iii 1/2 out of iv stars.[9] Fourth dimension Out London was besides positive proverb, "Friedkin's lean, hateful thriller shows itself more interested in process than context, subtlety and character evolution pared away in favour of headlong momentum and crunching set up pieces."[x]
References [edit]
- ^ The Hunted (2003). Box Office Mojo. Retrieved on 2014-05-22.
- ^ "EXTRAS". The Oregonian. 2003-03-17. pp. C02.
- ^ The Hunted. Sayoc Combat Choreography (2003-08-12). Retrieved on 2014-05-22.
- ^ a b The Hunted at Box Function Mojo
- ^ Daily Box Office for The Hunted from Box Office Mojo
- ^ "The Hunted". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster.
- ^ "The Hunted : Review". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on Nov 20, 2007.
- ^ Total Moving picture - The Hunted
- ^ a b "The Hunted". Chicago Sun-Times.
- ^ The Hunted Review. Movie Reviews - Film - Time Out London
eleven. Case Files of the Tracker, Tom Brown Jr., 2003, Berkley Publishing.
External links [edit]
- Official site
- The Hunted at IMDb
- The Hunted at AllMovie
- The Hunted at the TCM Movie Database
- The Hunted at Box Office Mojo
- The Hunted at the American Film Institute Catalog
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