Movie Review - The Hunted

I'd score this higher but I got the feeling that the start of this film was cut to ribbons or the script got a radical quick rewrite. This starts out as a former special forces man who's haunted by his nightmares played by Benicio Del Toro (BDT. We're never told which special forces either).

Tommy Lee Jones (TLJ) plays LT who has trained this man, I don't understand why he wasn't in uniform as a military trainer. We are also never told if LT is his rank (Leuitenant - Lt) or his initials. The 1st fight in the woods between TLJ and BDT is pretty unrealistic. BDT is on his back and has TLJ's leg and is twisting it, TLJ has a free hand which he could have easily used to push against the back of his own knee, freeing himself. Not much of a special forces Trainer if he didn't spot that one.

Our man on the run has won medals for bravery and valour, we see him getting a Silver Star (American Military, Why is a Silver Star Bronze?). We later find out he's an unperson. He doesn't exist as he does Black Bag Ops for the Government. He's an assassin and they aren't happy that he's gone rogue either. When BDT is killing FBI men left, right and centre he must know he has signed his own death warrant. The FBI guy stopping the tram must have been former Air Force as he was raising his arms crossed above his head, it's an internationally recognised sign in all NATO Air Forces for "Kill Your Engine".

The 1st and 2nd chases are really dull. TLJ is too old to be believable as a man in this kind of action pursuit. I was just waiting and being bored until TLJ and BDT finally came together for their final fight and you knew only one man was going to survive that, and it was obvious who that was going to be seeing as TLJ was the star of the film. This could have been so much better. The silly knife fight at the end where both men took wounds which we were told earlier in the film are designed to kill quickly. It was too much like The Fugitive meets Rambo for it's own good.