The Hunt

I thought the first half was fantastic because it was interesting following all the people trying to figure out what’s happening. The second half felt more formulaic but still fun. I was able to overlook how heavy handed the political stuff was especially since it was a bunch of extreme caricatures. Also, I was happy to see Ethan Suplee.

the satire of the US right and left here is just their view of eachother. deep state neolibs vs salt of the earth racists. protag is kinda positioned as the centrist, or maybe just libertarian, but really shes just the one character who knows guns. the highlight is of course the protag betty gilpin making a funny face at arrow girl before stabbing her. seriously great scene. also oh shit, ike barenholtz from mad tv!

I enjoyed it quite a bit, mostly for Gilpin who delivers one of the most entertaining performances I've seen in a long time. I'm not so sure the movie makes any political statement successfully, but I never felt insulted or downright laughed at. It pokes fun at a lot of things in American culture but not out of poor taste. The length, pacing, and premise are all very interesting and I never once got bored. Not a great film, but it's very entertaining and doesn't deserve the controversy.

Beats Rian Johnson and Edgar Wright's lauded last half-decades in humour, social criticism, and manipulation of genre mechanics. Went in knowing nothing and was impressed by the skill and commitment of the rug-pulling, and the quality of the comment: our present communication apparatus has confused our communication, deepened our divisions, and generally made us all crazier. And can you imagine Johnson or Wright staking so much on your understanding of Orwell?

So I'm a Lindelof defender. I love Prometheus and Watchmen But uh, this sucked. The political satire is not clever beyond "Trump voters are redneck conspiracy theorists, and Liberal elites are hypocrites who care too much about being PC". It's 14yo Family Guy shit. If you've read the premise to this movie you've pretty much seen the movie. It makes stabs at a deeper message - "People become the monsters we imagine them to be" but I doubt there is much insight anyone will get from this.

The movie struggles with any sort of political self-awareness but it's worth it for Gilpin alone. She's amazingly entertaining.

Knives Out, Ready or Not and this make a pretty interesting sledgehammer political commentary trilogy. The fight scene at the end is choreographed very well. Fun movie.

Decent political satire with a plot similar to Hunger Games meets Ready or Not. Decent start, mediocre middle, strong finish. It’s also more amusing than it is funny. Gilpin and Swank are pretty enjoyable as highlights of the film. Overall it’s a decent film that will be polarizing, but Ready or Not is a superior film that should be seen first.

Kinda fun, but it feels pretty cheap (specially some of the shootings CGI... what's wrong with using exploding blood bags?) and it's villains are too much like caricatures.

Under Quarantine Film Review #6: What an incredibly heavy-handed "satire", could they not go 5 minutes without beating us over the head with the incessant politics? I understand that both sides were supposed to be an over-the-top caricature of the left & right but my god it just made the characters just dumb & boring, except Betty Gilpin, she was really cool. Although it started off strong, it was nowhere near as clever as it thought it was.

I wanna dub over this a-la Kung Pow: Enter The Fist and reprise Betty Gilpin as a lady who's seeking out revenge against Hilary Swank for stealing and capitalising off of her grilled cheese recipe that got overblown into a fully fledged war

okay movie

Entertaining, but so much wasted potential. It wants to criticize both ideologies, but it's mostly very VERY tame on the satire part. But the action is ok and fun, some of the jokes are funny ("No more glass!") and the lead actresses are really good. Betty Gilpin is a total surprise as a bad ass, and Hilary Swank is such a good actress, when she has a good role.

Proving yet again that nobody who brings up Orwell has actually read Orwell. A movie that wants to be Controversial, but is so Both Sides chickenshit that it has nothing to say. Some good fight scenes though.

It's ultimately a defense of conservatism and attack on white American liberalism. Good job by the PR team to get Fox News to think it'd be the opposite. Either way, Gilpin is really great.

Better than I thought it would be, energetic enough to sustain the running time but never as smart or cutting as it tries to be.

shallow satire, decent enough movie. surprisingly funny a couple times.

Numbing, heavy-handed mess is a satire without bite and an action film without thrills; relying on the most simplistic and basic left vs right talking points, writers Lindelof and Cuse loudly bludgeon their audience with variations of the same tired commentary ad nauseum (to its marginal credit, neither side emerges the victor). Swank continues to cement her reputation as having the most bizarre career for a double Oscar winner, while Gilpin picks a couple of amusing moments from the mess. Ergh.

It has fun and funny parts here and there but overall its a bit of a muddled mess. The fight was pretty cool.

Action horror movies are very rarely any good and this one isn't one of them. Felt incredibly labored, can't relate to any characters both good guys and bad guys.

I'd forgotten this controversial movie which delayed its release from last year due to an ill-conceived connection with two unrelated real life mass shootings. According to the actress playing the lead role, Betty Gilpin, it's supposed to be a satire showing the foibles of both political sides. Yeah, fair enough as far as it goes. But how can they say it isn't a good guys vs. bad guys story, when one side sets up the other to be hunted for sport. I'm sorry, that's as dippy as thinking "The Brav

The Hunt is a clever, witty satire on the current political climate, taking some hilariously accurate jabs at both sides of the aisle, and never takes itself too seriously. The film begins by leading you in a familiar direction, then quickly takes several unexpected turns.

Though this movie's release was controversial and a little untimely, I still very much so enjoyed it. Betty Gilpin plays the lead role of Crystal, and she plays the hell out of it. I will say, without Gilpin, this movie probably wouldn't of been NEARLY as good. She made this movie. Swank is also pretty good as the antagonist. I really love how this movie doesn't really lean to far left or right and pokes fun at both sides. That being said, I don't think this is for everyone. Not too bad tho!

The movie started off good and I was having fun with it but it got incredibly stupid real fast. The final fight was a lot of fun but the ending was stupid as fuck.

Needed to be faster, crazier, funnier, gorier. Feels undercooked.

Not to give anything away, but I thought this would be an intense horror/thriller. It switched gears and doesn't take itself too seriously and is a lot of fun instead.

It's good stupid fun and actually pretty funny at points

Good tributes, references, funny film.

The satire in The Hunt is decent. The "deplorables" on the right are essentially murdered by the overwhelming force that they usually support. While the "elite" on the left, who are just as deplorable but with an illusion of moral superiority, go out in the exact same way. Relatively famous actors being killed off after 5 minutes of screen-time each make the film enjoyable and help keep a quick pace. Gilpin is good, but her character suffers too much as a plot device and the ending flounders.

Fun little satire about both ends of the political spectrum in which Betty Gilpin with a hilarious southern accent murders slightly overdrawn caricatures of various kinds of bad people.

It's not even 30% provocative of what it wanted to be. Tries desperately to capture a post-Trump divided nation and it manages to get nowhere. Action stuff sucks, not to mention the cartoonish intent of exposing both sides' hypocrisy -- LOL. Highlight here is how beautiful Hilary Swank is when she shows up.

This was not worth all of the controversy. It's a competent action film, but the political messaging is phoned in and muddled. But I can say that Betty Gilpin is amazing, as usual, and the plot tends to zag where you expect it to zig. I'm all for skewing fake woke neoliberals and conspiracy theory conservatives, but this lacked bite. The weird thing is that Damon Lindelof co-wrote this and it really doesn't seem like it exists in his body of work (that I mostly love).

It’s Gilpin’s film and without her it would fall apart. A lazy piece of satire it undoubtedly is (but then the US political landscape may be well beyond parody or satire at this point), but the basic set up is fine enough to just about string-along attention from one death to the next.

Bad, but somewhat entertaining.

If it took him that long to remove the grenade from his trousers, he must surely have wet himself before.

Its odd. It is presented in such a way that you have zero clue what to believe or who anyone truly is for that matter. You can some of the dialogue as either completely cringe or funny but neither has the desired effect. Why? Because its overly satirical and way too high strung to even be a concept worth considering. Alas it does exist and this movie was something I made it through.

Dumb, but funny enough at times to make it an ok experience. Why the S&M gags only to give them a key when they first need to talk?

Wow, so this is a film that can easily upset people who won't understand the message... and it's easy TO misunderstand the message, especially because of its dark, political satire humor. Heck, it took me a while to stop being pissed off at it and start realizing what's actually happening here, as the film is jabbing at both sides of the political party. It's actually kind of smart in that regards. I wouldn't mind watching this again

I'm glad I sat through the first half hour, because this movie got weird.

The satire falls flat while the storyline goes everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Best part is the Tears of the Sun joke.

There is a final boss fight that is worth the preceding 70 minutes, which are mildly entertaining as well. A genre-throwback is always up my alley, even one that isn't great. The subversiveness of this is far less than one would have thought listening to the rhetoric at that time. I certainly appreciate the freedom taken to off any character at any time.

65.6.

really good

A good action thriller film that is balanced intelligently with it's politics, since politics is one of the central themes in the film.

#20#, exp3, rw3, popcorn, story, writer Lindelof!, cast

30.4.20(+)1100thmovieqeyf.

A few great performances keep it from complete trash.

Fun black comedy that does nothing to hide its proclivity for caricature in satirizing both ends of the contemporary idpol spectrum. Betty Gilpin is hilarious connoting little else but a scowl. Many varieties of a scowl, in fact.

Just amazing! Great satire on society. Good actor performances, good action. Cultural appropriation and racism criticism from bad guys are pure gold. I personally put this in same row with recent "The Menu" and Netflix's "Platform", although one may rate this particular movie bad because of gore shell and simple plot.

Betty Gilpin rules in this movie that reminds me of both Ready or Not (also rad) and the last TCM movie (which sucked).

A win for Gilpin. Otherwise, it's The Last Supper with guns. It's a bit more exciting but no Ron Perlman.

I always keep my bribe money in a plastic contained labeled BRIBE MONEY

wasn't expecting a revenge flick to have a better sense of humour than a feel for action. Its most understated joke though seems squandered, using the balkans as backdrop. The main cast is good, Swank is having a blast but Gilpin kills it; always love to see an actress who can twist and contort her face expressively. There's one moment where the character reveals some depth and she milks it for what is worth.

I'm impressed.

the plotting's a little immature but holy god Betty Gilpin is off the charts in this. legitimately one of the best, most unique performances I've ever seen. damn right I'm serious. it's an acting master class in the middle of a pretty badass HUNTER'S BLOOD knockoff surrounded by college freshman-level satire. 2020, man.

divertidíssimo

Battle Royale değişik ABD versiyonu. 1 grup insan, tetikçiler tarafından kimsesiz 1 yerde ölmeye başlar. İçlerinden biri kurtulmaya çalışır. Tetikçileri öldürmeye başlar. Hızlı temposu, kanlı açılış sahnesi ve politik kültür göndermeleriyle film izletiyor. Filmin sonu, Kill Bill'e gönderme yapılmış. Hata olmuş. Tekdir ile uslanmayanın hakkı kötektir.

09.11.2022 Kartal, İstanbul

The Hunt, directed by Craig Zobel, promises an intriguing premise but fails to deliver on its potential. Despite a talented cast and a timely concept, the film suffers from weak character development, tonal inconsistencies, and a lackluster execution of its social commentary. While it attempts to be provocative and suspenseful, it ultimately falls flat and fails to leave a lasting impact.

Just terrible with no likeable characters and forced politics

A passable 90-min flick with an intriguing if not particularly original premise. Nothing special but does enough to hold your attention for the most part. In fact it’s the final one-on-one act with Swank where you start to lose interest - the political commentary is a bit muddled, and probably should have been left out altogether rather than cranking it up toward the climax.

i hate long man-to-man fight scenes (sorry woman to woman, this time)

The beginning (the misleading of the protagonists, if you will) is very well done, but I didn't really care for the lead. Unsure if it was the actress, character, or script or a combination of the three. I also think it might have been better if it was a straighter story with less political commentary. I don't mind political commentary, but it seems very muddled in what it's trying to say here and becomes a distraction. Not terrible, but severely flawed.

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They turned a crazy 1932 film into a crazy social media warfare! Can't deny I kinda dug that.

The unconventional pacing of The Hunt brought out wonder in me as I watched to see what would happen next.  There was a perfect balance of action and fun. The way Betty Gilpin delivered her lines and made perfectly timed facial expressions reminded me of Jodie Comer in Killing Eve. I hope this film causes future roles because I would love to see more of her.   

A few good twists along the way, but nothing special.

A controversial movie? Not to me!

The political slant wears out its welcome quickly, but this is a fun ride, and nobody is safe.

what the fuck was that.

lol jack rabbits story is fun.