We live here in a series of action events and a seemingly different force with a man named Bonham (Tommy Lee Jones), who has a very powerful and exciting experience. The job begins with FBI agent Abe Dorel (Kony Nielsen) in pursuit of the murderer of coach Halle (Benicio del Toro). There may be more serious challenges where precision and skill are needed and the predator may still be a step forward as he tries to escape.
There's too much talent on-screen and behind the camera for The Hunted to be dull, but it is predictable and disappointing, and we seem to be missing about a half-hour's worth of scenes that would have brought some depths to these characters.
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
October 06, 2007
It's actually a tense, intelligent film, highlighting two of Friedkin's pet themes, and it deserves consideration among his best films.
Has so little going for it, you wonder if you've missed something.
Nell Minow
Common Sense Media
December 28, 2010
An awful and graphically violent movie.
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
March 17, 2003
By stripping an action thriller this close to the bone, director William Friedkin has removed too much meat.
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
March 16, 2003
This is schlock -- by-the-numbers action that ignores character development to the point where we find it hard to care whether L.T. catches Hallam or whether they end up running after each other until the world ends.
If only we could sympathise with Hallam as he seems to sympathise with hunted animals, this film might engage our interest; but as it stands, the whole length of The Hunted is merely a tedious deferral of the inevitable confrontation.
