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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Simply Perfect

Absolutely Fantastic

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

A lot of comparisons to First Blood. This is a more interesting film with great fight scenes. The hand to hand combat is well done. Del Toro is very good and believable.

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

It's 1999 in Kosovo. Aaron Hallam (Benicio Del Toro) is awarded the Silver Star for killing a Serb commander who has been massacring civilians. He is haunted by the war. L.T. Bonham (Tommy Lee Jones) is in British Columbia protecting wildlife. It's 2003 and Hallam has been hunting people in the forest in the American northwest. Bonham who turns out to be his teacher is called in to track him down. FBI agent Abby Durrell (Connie Nielsen) is in charge and they are able to capture him. Government agents take him away since his work as an assassin cannot be brought out in public. He crashes the truck and escapes.Basically, Tommy Lee Jones is doing another Fugitive except the story isn't as compelling and Benicio Del Toro is really quiet. William Friedkin is still a good straight action director. The action isn't too slick. It's partly good although it's too obvious to have the final fight at the edge of the rushing river. Don't ask me why both men have to make their own weapons for that fight. Maybe if the entire movie is one big chase in the woods, that would be more appropriate. This feels like a lesser replica of a better movie.

What happens when you combine these films: Predator, First Blood, and the Fugitive? Well, you get this thriller: The Hunted. Now while the Hunted may seem derivative (it pretty much is), it still is a good time and it's a reasonably entertaining, straightforward thriller which is like a cat and mouse game. This film is not short on the action as we witness some great knife battles, a climatic ending, and lots of graphic violence.William Friedkin's film is about a former ops named Aaron Hallam who has gone rogue after witnessing events in Kosovo. Hallam is wanted for the vicious murders of two businessmen as he tries to avoid being captured. But the FBI calls in his former assassins trainer, L.T Bonham to help them track Hallam down.Tommy Lee Jones is a great actor, but he wasn't convincing here as he should have been. This was just a ripoff of his Fugitive performance, and I'm still deciding whether that is good or not. He still has his charisma and grace though. Benicio Del Toro did do a great job as the vicious Hallam whose best friend is his stealth. Finally, Connie Nielsen was okay as the FBI agent, but I'm not sure if I could buy her performance.Overall, The Hunted is an entertaining, "cat and mouse" thriller that is highlighted by some excellent knife scenes. While the film is not short on action or gore, it does lack an excellent screenplay, which perhaps hindered the acting. But this film does have a good technical side as it has great editing and great cinematography. In other words, this film made it feel I was in the Pacific Northwest as well. I rate this film 8/10.