Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

RMS1949 With so much promise, the film falls apart with utter nonsense. What could of been an excellent action thriller suddenly transformed into a Lifetime movie with silly setups, dumb as oak police and FBI agents, and of course the old " I'm so misunderstood" crap. And as for the fight scenes, well I love Tommy Lee but we're suppose to buy his fight scenes against a killing machine that's half his age ??? Please spare me. It's an assault on the audience's intelligence.Not sure what the writer was snorting when he created this dribble but I blame the producers more for turning into a major film. Oh,you can spend a couple of wasted hours watching it on numbed cruise control I suppose ,but for me it was just a waste of good talent.

Comeuppance Reviews Aaron Hallam (Del Toro) is a Kosovo veteran and also an unstoppable killing machine. When the mentally unstable Hallam returns home to Oregon, he continues his killing spree. This grabs the attention of FBI Special Agent Abby Durrell (Nielsen), who wants to stop him. As it turns out, this particular unhinged maniac was trained by a survival expert and knife maestro named L.T. Bonham (Jones). He's not lieutenant Bonham, he's L.T. Bonham, as he does point out he never was actually in the military, he just used his expertise to train the recruits. Feeling guilty that his star student is now on the rampage, Bonham comes out of retirement to do one last track, which inevitably leads into the final teacher-versus-student knife fight...but who really is THE HUNTED? Maybe we'll all find out together...It's First Blood (1982) meets The Fugitive (1993) meets White Ghost (1988) as Tommy Lee Jones puts on his grizzled hat once again. This was towards the beginning of what came to be known as the GeriAction trend in Hollywood, where an older generation of actors - within a certain range, mind you - wanted to try a few last punches and kicks before they kicked off this mortal coil. Everyone from Clint Eastwood to Liam Neeson to Sean Penn have tried it lately with varying degrees of success. As anyone who reads this site knows, we almost always root for the older guys. We hate young punks and we cheer when they lose. All that being said, I think it's fair to expect more of the great director William Friedkin than what we get here. It's all so simple, paint-by-numbers, one-dimensional even. Some guy is on the loose and Tommy Lee Jones is "Hunting" him. Is it wrong to want just a bit more meat on the bone than that? It feels like you've seen a lot of this before - just the images of Tommy Lee Jones in front of a waterfall will remind you of the aforementioned Fugitive. And a former military man with a knife that the authorities are chasing in the Pacific Northwest wilderness should bring to mind a certain Stallone movie series that we all know and love. They had enough time for the clichés we've all seen before, but somehow they couldn't find the time for some character development or human drama. They even fell back on the tired "Vietnam vet goes crazy" scenario, which could certainly be argued is insensitive, if not insulting. But we may not have noticed if that hadn't been done so many times before. The only difference is now it's Kosovo, not Vietnam. We would think that by 2003 Hollywood would have used up every last drop of that trope, but no, apparently not.This is one time that we can think of that we can't necessarily sign off on approving an 88-minute running time, like we usually do. Evidently there was more character development left on the cutting room floor. While we appreciate the sentiment to try to make the movie lean and mean, a couple more dialogue scenes that might have fleshed out the characters or explained their motivations would have gone a long way. It would have helped the audience care more about the Bonham-Hallam relationship, which would have increased the suspense. The filmmakers also seemed ambivalent about Connie Nielsen's character - they should have given her more screen time or axed her altogether. As it stands, she's just kinda there. We would have opted for more Nielsen, as her run on Law & Order: SVU were some of the best episodes of that series to date. The Hunted could have used a tough female, Dani Beck-like character.Looking at the movie a mere twelve years later (TWELVE years have passed since this came out? Maybe it's not so mere after all), it's hard to believe it got a theater release. If this was released today it would go DTV or on-demand, almost certainly. While it does contain the appropriate amount of action and violence - we even get some classic Tommy Lee Jones-Fu, or, to be more accurate, a Filipino fighting style called Sayoc Kali - it's hard to shake the feeling something is missing here. Perhaps we should hire L.T. Bonham to hunt it down...but then we'd be right back to where we started, wouldn't we?

crow robot I guess not the most horrible movie I've seen but i found it hard not to laugh watching it. About a shell shocked, mentally unstable, unstoppable killing machine war vet against Law enforcement. they bring in his mentor help stop him. He uses his crazy knife and booby traps to take out foes. Now where have i seen that before..First Blood. I kept expecting him to go into a screaming, crying rant at the end about how "You Just Don't Turn It Off" !! Action is OK but like i said it was hard not to laugh. Some things i found odd. In the special forces to they teach you to throw your voice? When Tommys character was throwing up he wipes the puke off his mouth and with the same hand reaches out and grabs the ladies arm and she doesn't even give him a second look? At the end when the killer is fashioning a knife from a leaf spring it would take Some time to heat it up hot enough to forge especially using nothing but dry leaves but he does it in what appears to be hours without any blacksmithing equip. The acting is good, action is good, story is OK. Worth seeing once. A few things i still wonder about is so the Rambo guy was field dressing his victims so was he eating them? They mention it once that is the only reason but is that what special forces eat? Another thing i don't get is the killer had such strong feelings for Tommys character but they never really go into why except the killer was part of his class?

Uriah43 Traumatized by an event in Kosovo, a specially trained assassin by the name of "Aaron Hallam" (Benicio Del Toro) deserts and secretly takes refuge in the forests of Oregon. Unfortunately, having gone completely insane he subsequently kills and dismembers some deer hunters who he believes are agents sent to either bring him back or kill him. This results in the FBI getting involved and a request for the assistance of the man who trained him named "L. T. Bonham" (Tommy Lee Jones). What the FBI doesn't realize is just how effective and vicious Aaron has become. Now rather than reveal any more of this film and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that people who enjoy action movies with little regard for reality will probably love this particular picture. Admittedly, there were several parts which were entertaining. But other parts were so totally unbelievable that I found it quite difficult to accept in a serious manner. Only in Hollywood. Likewise, although I liked the presence of Connie Nielsen (as FBI agent "Abby Durrell"), I thought Tommy Lee Jones wasn't quite suited for his particular role and that factored into my overall rating as well. Slightly below average.