| release date: | Friday March 14, 2003 Tuesday August 12, 2003 (dvd) |
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| genre: | Action |
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| running time: | 94 min. |
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| director: | William Friedkin |
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| studio: | Paramount Pictures |
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| producer(s): | Ricardo Mestres, James Jacks |
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| screenplay: | David Griffiths, Peter Griffiths, Art Monterastelli |
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| cast: | Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Connie Nielsen, Leslie Stefanson, John Finn, Jose Zuniga, Ron Canada, Mark Pellegrino, Lonny Chapman, Jenna Boyd |
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The Hunted Movie Synopsis
During the bloodiest of the fighting in Kosovo in 1999, Serbian soldiers are carrying out scores of atrocities against Albanian civilians while U.S. Special Forces operate covertly nearby. Soldier Aaron Hallam (Del Toro) penetrates a demolished building and slips unseen past guards. As he moves without a sound, there is a tense moment when the path to his target is blocked by a small child praying over her mother’s dead body. But Aaron is so skilled at melting into the shadows that the Serbian officer who has ordered all this butchery has no clue anyone is even in the room until Aaron has killed him. Awarded the Silver Star for valor, Aaron feels no honor as he lies awake, tormented by nightmares.
In 2003, L.T. Bonham (Jones) is tracking an injured wolf through the woods of British Columbia. He approaches the animal, undoes the trap and treats the wolf’s wound, then finds the man who set the trap and gives him a beating. Meanwhile, Bonham’s former student, Aaron Hallom, has gone AWOL from the Special Forces and is hiding out in the woods of Oregon. Also determined to protect wildlife, he taunts two men in hunter’s gear who are using high-powered military telescopes. He asks them if they think it’s fair to hunt with the big scopes and then hurls a knife into a nearby tree, purposely missing them. They turn and fire in his direction, but he pounces on them, killing them swiftly. These are not his first two victims, and the FBI decides to call in the one man who can track Hallom down – L.T. Bonham.
A lot of people thought this movie was bad due to the "unrealistic" aspects of tracking, fighting, and...well..yadda yadda yadda. These aspects of the movie depended on the insight of experts. Tom Brown was brought in for the tracking/survival aspects, Rafayel Kayanan and Tom Kier were brought in for knife fighting tactics. These guys know their stuff. Really. Look em up and read about them. When it came to the chase scene (in the cars) I LOVED the fact that a simple gridlock was thrown in, and there was NO CGI involved, there was NO "kewl explosions". He had to PLOW through the gridlock, the hard way. Little dialogue in certain scene
i thought that it was a very very good movie they played there parts well the only thing that bothered me was how tommy lee jones or Lt tracked him through the city . he was going on guess . that was it . but still it is my fav movie of all time
i thought that it was a very very good movie they played there parts well the only thing that bothered me was how tommy lee jones or Lt tracked him through the city . he was going on guess . that was it . but still it is my fav movie of all time