Friedkin deftly balances Bonham and Hallam’s screentime.

| Oct 5, 2023

Benicio Del Toro goes Rambo in the Oregon wilderness and tracker/father figure Tommy Lee Jones is drafted to hunt him down in William Friedkin’s lean, mean manhunt thriller.

| Aug 19, 2023

Jones and Del Toro are both convincing, taking their parts seriously; there's no comic relief, and the countless cuts and stabs are quite brutal.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 30, 2020

You leave feeling detached without a sense of intimacy or adventure.

| May 4, 2014

An awful and graphically violent movie.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 28, 2010

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 29, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

It's actually a tense, intelligent film, highlighting two of Friedkin's pet themes, and it deserves consideration among his best films.

| Oct 6, 2007

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Just like Walter Hill's Undisputed, William Friedkin's The Hunted plays a like a clinic for lean, mean, no-nonsense filmmaking.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 5, 2006

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 5, 2005

Be prepared to endure pounds of painful preposterousness in return for the film's pint-sized pleasures.

| Original Score: C+ | May 4, 2005

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 7, 2004

| Original Score: D+ | Aug 7, 2004

| Original Score: 70/100 | Mar 16, 2004

... It's the polar opposite of the stylized action popularized by The Matrix and other recent films.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 6, 2004

With so much going right in The Hunted, it's a shame they couldn't track down a writer (three are credited) who could have figured out how to make the ending work.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 4, 2004

The Hunted . . . has the pacing of a chase movie, the atmosphere of a horror film and the tired formula of a morally bankrupt Tinseltown action flick.

Full Review | Dec 1, 2003