The Hunt [DVD]
J**O
One of my new favorite movies.
Boondock Saints is my absolute favorite if that gives you a bar to judge my movie taste on or whatever.This movie is freaking fantastic! Betty Gilpin is outstanding. I cannot tell you how much I love her facial expressions, and how abnormal she is in this movie. While still being beautiful she's not like every other female heroine in every other bloody movie where she has to be hot all the time, hair has to be perfect, and can't make awkward facial expressions. No, they must look beautiful and bustful at all times. She blows all of them out of the water! she is a real person, doing real things to defend herself. Also what I love about this movie is that both sides believe that they are so right that they're not willing to listen to the truth. Both of them, it's not just one sided it's both sides. People watching this movie that are on one extreme side or the other are probably going to hate it because they also can't see any other point of view but their own. Betty gilpin's character is totally in the middle. People are trying to kill her, she doesn't care why, or what their beliefs are or anything like that. They're just trying to kill her so she's just defending herself. She doesn't care what they believe in, she doesn't care what the other people that are being hunted believe in either, she just wants to go home. And I think that is absolutely fantastic. He's smart, funny, calm and collected. Yes she pretty much only cares about herself, but in a situation like that, that might be the smartest thing to do. Everybody always thinks you're better in numbers and maybe you are but most movies I've seen and most cataclysmic situations that I have actually been in, you are better off on your own people turn on each other too fast. I like to help the ones that truly need it and then disappear. I don't like to be known that I'm helping so I often wait in the shadows and listen and if someone needs something in particular I go get it and I drop it off and I leave. I don't need thanks it's truly the only humanized thing to do. That is just my opinion from my experience. It is been my experience that you just can't trust people and that is how Betty gilpin's character operates throughout this movie she keeps her mouth shut and pays attention. In fact I think she's my new hero. I know this movie is politically charged and that is probably why it got pulled but our whole nation is politically charged I think it's good to have a little humor in it. This movie gives you that. You just have to be open for it. All in all it's a great movie I've watched it several times and I still have an inclination to watch it again. Just in case I missed something or just because I enjoy watching it.Spoiler alert!!!!A lot of people were very confused by whether she was the real Justice4y'all and I think at the end of the movie it makes it very clear that she is not Justice4y'all. When Althena is reading through her life story she doesn't mention anything about her military service and I think that would be a big thing in her record, and why would Betty gilpin's character lie when they're both about to die? She's also educated which the other Crystal doesn't sound like she would be educated at all. She's also very polite, in every situation she acts completely different from the other people that are being hunted. However again we have someone who is so caught up in their beliefs that they don't want to hear the truth. Betty gilpin's character accepts this and decides well if you're not going to listen to reason then let's fight. A lot of people were also confused about whether Don was a turncoat or not but I also don't think he was one of the people that were trying to kill them. I mean I know they went through elaborate schemes to make everyone believe that they were in Arkansas, but the truth is every time she killed someone he freaked out hardcore. They only picked 11 and when you look at the pictures on the wall in Athena's house there are only 11. However, they didn't show double machine gun guy, and they didn't show Gaaarrrryyy. Which I imagine were the last two on the wall so that does leave some doubt for Don. I just didn't think that he showed the intelligence or fortitude to help pull something like this off. Plus he tried to warn the guy about the Box saying it was a trap. There's just little things along the way that make me think that he was one of the hunted and not the Hunter, but again this is just my opinion.
"**"
Oh My
So much better than i thought, the end fight seen was a bit far fetched but over all the movie was good.
T**N
Fun action horror thriller comedy that probably wont' age well.
The Hunt (2020), an American action horror thriller comedy. A movie where basically rich liberal people hunt conservative poor and middle classed people for sport, with the filmmakers along the way satirizing modern day politics, conspiracy theorists, cancel culture, rich liberal elite arrogance, conservative anti-intellectualism, NPR, gun culture, and culture war fights. After an opening where in a text group chat a group of close friends talk about hunting “deplorables” for sport, the film basically goes to just that very thing, with a bunch of people coming to in the woods and a field in some unknown location, having been transported there unconscious by the same group of friends in the group chat. They come to with gags in their mouth and in short order find a crate with weapons. They start arming themselves and they have barely finished doing this when they start getting picked off one by one, either by being shot from a bunker, or by other quite graphic, bloody means.Survivors of the group try to escape, and one of the “deplorables,” Crystal May Creasey played by Betty Gilpin, starts to fight back, hunting the hunters. Unlike pretty much everyone else among the deplorables, she seems ruthless, competent, and quite skilled. The hunters have set other traps for the deplorables and all is not as it appears, a combination of trying to kill the deplorables by getting them to let their guard down, wanting to teach them “a lesson” as to why they are deplorable, and also basically just to sadistically mess with them. I liked this element, as you couldn’t always be sure if a possible ally, fellow deplorable, or something useful was really what they or it appeared, and also it played into the satirical parts of the film such as satire of conspiracy theorists.Strong Ready or Not (2019) vibes, though I think Ready or Not is the superior film. It is amazingly violent, quite graphic really, almost cartoonishly so at times. Though it is a horror, the tone stays pretty light most of the film, as while everyone is in a horror movie, it is not one where people are terrified or screaming all the time and the film keeps veering into scenes of parodying either the right or the left. Hilary Swank as Athena Stone, the main bad guy among the elite, could have been in the movie more than she was, but what we get is very effective. I really liked Betty Gilpin’s character, who was interesting and believable. Several of the deplorables and the elite were pretty thin stereotypes of those on the right and those on the left respectively and some of the satirical elements were little better than brief lip service scenes, such a very brief exchange on cultural appropriation. A few times if the movie had stayed a bit longer with some of the things they were satirizing it might have been more effective.I appreciated the movie the most as an action thriller, as there are some good action scenes. I think some of the comedy and satirical elements fell a little flat for me, maybe even most of it. There was one element I really didn’t get as far as being comedy, that the deplorables believe in “Manorgate,” the exposure of the group chat from the beginning of the film, that a secret group of elites hunts conservative people for sport, something most of society doesn’t believe…only the deplorables were right? They are being hunted for sport! The elites are furious and hate the Manorgate scandal/conspiracy theory, but they are hunting people for sport! Is this supposed to validate or mock far right conspiracy theories?Good pacing, fun movie, though I don’t think it will probably age well or become the classic I think Ready or Not already is. I did recognize things that should be mocked on both the right and the left, but some things came off as "this is what one group thinks of the other group and we are making fun of them for them, but we don't really believe or get their point." I don't recall laughing out loud at any point in the movie, but it was still fun to watch.
A**R
Not very entertaining
A story about a couple of killer women that happily enjoy mayhem and brutality.
P**P
Good movie, ending surprising.
Awesome movie!!! Seen it 3 times, superb action
W**S
Excellent movie on gore, mayhem, and humor. Never a dull moment.
Seen it numerous times but wanted my own copy without commercials and no longer available on my video services.
R**E
BadAss
Yes it's another bad ass movie but this is somewhat better based on the twist Plus something from a new actor she was great the looks on her face as she's taking out the bad guys so real & So Cool Ive had interactions with people in the past have made those looks in the past, Just check it out I'm glad i bought it....
M**K
Horror/Comedy done right
If you're into horror/comedy genre you really have to give this movie a chance. It is hilarious. And you won't believe the twist at the end.
M**A
todo bien con amazon pero muy mala película
todo bien con amazon y sus entregas a tiempo como siempre. La película es realmente mala!, las actuaciones dejan mucho que desear, es aburrida, las escenas de acción son bastante pobre y simples, las muertes son entretenidas pero todas pasan en 5 minutos de la película y el resto deja mucho que desear, Hillary swan bastante pobre, la pelea final no emociona mucho, el final es pobre también, nunca se siente un afecto o identificación con la protagonista, así que realmente te da igual si la matan o no. No la compren, no vale la pena, yo estoy arrepentido, lastima que ya no la puedo regresar :(
E**
Muy buena película
Me llegó con su slipcover y es una excelente película, original
A**R
REGIONAL DVD
THIS DVD IS REGIONAL ONLY PLAYS ON USA REGIONAL DVD PLAYERS FOES NOT PLAY IN UK DVD PLAYER
E**B
Malísima
Mala y tediosa.
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