djohn-96217
Just under the title there is one sentence describing the whole movie "... a man turning hunting of humans ... a sport...?!"
Really?!
There are certain places in the movie underlining that instead he is hunted (see movie title :). He just trying to avoid to be cought and killed, not sentenced ...
But not running... He just was used, honored with medal and prepared for disposal.
In fact the men in grey used police to do there dirt work.
So, really he is one of them?!
Abraham is not bother with killing his son, isn't he?! The man who protect the wild life make his first kill being of his former student who embrace respect of living creatures as he do.
There are deep connections beside amusing of watchers in this movie!
Michael Ledo
Jake (Josh Stewart) is a great hunter from "By God" West Virginia... or was it West "By God" Virginia. He wants to start his own hunting TV series called "The Tree Hugger" as he spends most of his time in a deer stand. He has a professional camera man friend as they head out to deer camp. They are hunting a newly opened area, one that has a huge buck nicknamed, "Movie Star."There is an early clue as to what is about to happen, although the title isn't clear until later. Kudos to DVD cover guys for not revealing any plot spoilers.Some of the film was fine, but other footage, such as watching the trailer hitch, left something to be desired. Much of the film is found footage, while some is not, and I wish they did the herky-jerky ending in the "not" group. What it really looks like is that Josh works at Cabela's and got a bunch of hunting gear sponsors to make them an 87 minute commercial we would pay to watch.Guide: 1 F-bomb. No sex or nudity
gavin6942
An FBI deep-woods tracker captures a trained assassin who has made a sport of hunting humans.With all due respect to director William Friedkin, he has a record that is less than consistent. Back in the 1970s, he blew everyone away with "The Exorcist" and "The French Connection". After that, it has been up and down. I really liked "Bug", but it seemed to go largely under the radar.This one is less than perfect. It starts off okay, and the concept is good, but as it goes on, the acting seems to get worse and worse. How does that happen? Even Benicio del Toro, who is a pretty decent actor, just sort of falls apart. That makes me a sad panda.
willhaskew
A soldier (Benicio del Toro) with PTSD takes to the Portland, Oregon woods in Rambo-like fashion. He's paranoid and kills a couple of businessmen from nearby Medford who were weekend deer hunters. The soldier believed the men were CIA spooks sent to find him. The film reveals that he's a Special Forces operator named Aaron Hallam who is AWOL. Hallam is shown to be haunted by his service during the Kosovo War, where he assassinated high priority targets with his hand-forged combat knife. The knife and others like it were forged by Hallam and the others he trained with and is a weapon of significance in the film. An FBI-led manhunt manhunt begins with Special Agent Abby Durrell (Connie Nielsen), who's assisted by L.T. Bonham (Tommy Lee Jones). Bonham was a civilian survival and combatives expert who instructed Hallam during his advanced training. Bonham is a recluse but the FBI bring him into the investigation as a consultant. He's able to identify the specific type of knife and footwear, a moccasin with no tread, used by the killer. It turns out Hallam felt a paternal connection to Bonham that the latter didn't reciprocate. Bonham reveals during a conversation with Durrell that he was never in the armed forces because his father, an Army colonel, had kept him from enlisting after his older brother was killed in Vietnam. His father was also an outdoorsman and survivalist who taught Bonham everything he knew. Hallam becomes more violent and dangerous as the manhunt for him tightens and increases in size. Bonham and Hallam are forced to confront each other in a strange almost kung fu movie style student-mentor battle. There are a few problems I had with this movie. Why would a Special Forces soldier have a hand-forged knife as his only weapon? If the FBI and police had arrested an armed and dangerous fugitive with specialized military training wouldn't he be in a maximum security lock up? A civilian would probably not be allowed to interrogate him either. Oh, well. The Oregon wilderness of Silver Falls State Park where the wilderness scenes were shot is magnificently beautiful. The combat is intense and well-choreographed. It was base on the Filipino martial art of Kali. Kali relies on close-quarters grappling, striking, stick and of course knife fighting. It resembles the close combat style featured in the Bourne films with Matt Damon.