The Hunting Party (Blu-ray) R
How can they find the world's most wanted war criminal when the C.I.A. can't? [by actually looking]
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 23, 2010
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Weinstein
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Richard Gere, Terrence Howard & Jesse Eisenberg | |
Performer: | Diane Kruger, Joy Bryant, James Brolin & Dylan Baker | |
Directed by | Richard Shepard | |
Screenwriting by | Richard Shepard | |
Composition by | Rolfe Kent | |
Produced by | Mark Johnson, Scott Kroopf & Bill Block | |
Director of Photography: | David Tattersall |
Entertainment Reviews:
The action plot is lousy with cliched suspense scenes of back-road executions halted at the last possible instant.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Features some truly outrageous events.... But filmmaker Shepard struggles to avoid action and comedy cliches
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Shadows on the Wall
Adorns its bankrupt inanity in the robes of Importance
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CinePassion
What makes THE HUNTING PARTY an original, gonzo treat is the way that Shepard plants the movie's tone somewhere between hair-trigger investigative danger and the from-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire glee of a Hope/Crosby picture. -- Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly
3 stars out of 5 -- With shades of THREE KINGS, Shepard's anarchic film clips along at an enjoyable pace...
Ultimate DVD
Rating: 7/10 --
It's not a bad story as far as it goes, and says a lot about the strange culture war journalism ... [but] no story, no matter how interesting, can't do without a little bit of the Hollywood treatment, and "The Hunting Party" suffers that in spades.
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ComingSoon.net
While at times it may be glib, the film largely sticks to a grim tone of what a war as bitter as that can do to a country.
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The Indian Express
Product Description:
On the fifth anniversary of the end of the civil war in Bosnia, former hot-shot reporter Simon Hunt (Richard Gere) mysteriously shows up, five years after imploding on live television and disappearing into a self-imposed exile. Reunited with his cameraman, Duck (Terrence Howard), who has been promoted to a cushy studio gig working with anchorman Franklin Harris (James Brolin), Simon convinces Duck to go on a dangerous journey to get an interview with the wanted war criminal known as the Fox (Ljubomir Kerekes), based on the real-life Radovan Karadicz. They are joined by Ben (Jesse Eisenberg), the Harvard-educated nephew of a network executive who is in search of adventure and a good story. Together the three drive deep into Serb territory, facing more intrigue and danger than they ever could have imagined. Writer-director Richard Shepard (THE MATADOR) loosely based THE HUNTING PARTY on an article Scott Anderson wrote for Esquire magazine entitled "What I Did on My Summer Vacation," about five reporters who actually did go after Karadicz, and tried to capture him. Shepard infuses the film with a sly black humor and fills the story with a crazy cast of oddball characters, paying homage to Carol Reed's THE THIRD MAN, which was set in postwar Vienna. The three leads are excellent, especially Gere, who plays Hunt with a knowing grin that often hides what he's really up to. Shot on location in and around Sarajevo, lending the film an eerie reality, THE HUNTING PARTY--which claims at the beginning that "only the most ridiculous parts of this story are true"--is a fun, fascinating political thriller.