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Some Clarifications on The Hunted
by Aaron (movies profile)
Mar 2, 2008
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30 people found this review helpful
The assassin (Del Toro) does NOT kill the deer hunters for sport, for as he later states "They've been coming for me for a long time." The supposed "hunters" are assassins themselves. This is evidenced by the fact that they wear identical clothing and have matching high caliber rifles with matching thermal image scopes. They are in fact hunting Del Toro, and he knows it, so he dispatches them quickly and efficiently, as trained to do. Anyone who has worked within such government agencies can easily recognize a "sweeper" (as Del Toro calls them) from an ordinary hunter or poacher. He is NOT killing them for sport, but rather for survival, again, as he has been trained to do. This is deliberately left ambiguous in the film to leave the viewer wondering if Del Toro is hunting hunters for sport or simply surviving by defending himself. I believe this is part of the reason the movie received such poor reviews -- most viewers simply cannot comprehend the complexities of how top secret agencies terminate members who have gone over the edge from battle stress/post traumatic stress disorder. These individuals, like Del Toro's character, cannot be exposed or allowed to talk about our military/paramilitary actions under any circumstances, so the only method of "turning off the machine" is assassination. If the operator possesses a strong will to survive, he WILL fight back, which forms the main plot of the movie. Acritical eye and a background knowledge of these things is required to really "get" the crux of the film: survive at any cost, kill or be killed. Viewed in this light, this movie does not deserve the C- rating it has received from most critics, but is rather a fascinating look inside the world of military black ops, even if slightly far fetched. |
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