The Hunted: Critic Reviews

The Hunted stalks the masculine psyche with sharp knives, but it tracks its audience too noisily to bag us.

This isn't a movie: it's a police report and the strictly-the-facts terseness of the story makes this more than clear.

Here we go again with Tommy Lee Jones chasing a fugitive, right out of ... what was that movie called?

Has so little going for it, you wonder if you've missed something.

A good ride, briskly paced, well played and vividly photographed.

The sight of Jones expending his sizable acting chops on this piece of macho blowhard fluff is distressing only if you can't relax and appreciate The Hunted on a camp level, where it functions quite hilariously.

Essentially a reheating of 1982's First Blood ... but the fallout this time is simultaneously more ruthless, less emotional, and duller.

Although it is a rough ride, The Hunted is also an exciting one. But no tracking skills were needed to follow its well-traveled cinematic road.

As a whole, The Hunted will not stick with you. But individual moments will be hard to forget.

An intense, if terse, character study that does not let us settle into comfortable delineations of good and evil.

What makes the movie fresh is that it doesn't stand back and regard its pursuit as an exercise, but stays very close to the characters and focuses on the actual physical reality of their experience.

An enjoyable movie that keeps hinting at something deeper that it doesn't deliver.

The Hunted isn't exactly fraught with psychological depth and nuance, but as a stalker-stalkee suspenser, the pic has some nice things going for it.

The Hunted isn't grand cinema, but it's a good jog around the action flick track. Sort of like The Fugitive, except ...

Ludicrous, plotless, ho-hum tale of lurid confrontation.

An unpleasant action suspenser more dedicated to hurtling relentlessly forward than to vesting audience interest.

In the running for is the year's dullest thriller.

The generic title is your first clue that The Hunted is run-of-the-mill.

Friedkin is in his element.

You got your hunted, you got your hunter, and away they go. And go and go.

Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro batter each other to a bloody pulp in this utterly brain-dead and depressing 'thriller.'