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Mar 20, 2020 · It’s one of the many borrowed and tweaked headlines used in “The Hunt,” which despite all its copy and pasting of popular terms and internet slurs, doesn’t add up to anything beyond its superficial violence. Written by Nick Cuse and Damon Lindelof, “The Hunt” proves how “both-siderism” doesn’t always logically pan out.
Mar 11, 2020 · ‘The Hunt’: Film Review Reviewed at London Screening Room, March 5, 2020. MPAA Rating: R. Running time: 90 MIN. Production: A Universal Pictures release of a Blumhouse production....
- A darkly comic satire of our political divide.
- Verdict
By Scott Collura
Updated: Apr 28, 2020 10:30 pm
Posted: Mar 11, 2020 1:00 pm
A satire about these extremely politically divided times that we live in -- Red State vs. Blue State was reportedly the title of an early version of the screenplay, actually -- Universal’s The Hunt is now finally here, almost six months after it was originally scheduled to be released. As it turns out, the film is a blast when it’s at its best, and even when it’s not at its best, it’s still not much to get worked up about in terms of its political message. The Hunt swings big, but it’s much more a critique of hyper-partisanship on both sides than a condemnation of the views of either end of the spectrum.
Produced by Jason Blum through his Blumhouse Productions, written by Watchmen’s Damon Lindelof and Nick Cuse, and directed by Craig Zobel, The Hunt takes the tried-and-true concept of “The Most Dangerous Game” and applies it to an exaggerated version of our fractured political landscape. This updated concept is the reason the movie was delayed half a year, shifted by the studio over concerns of its release being insensitive coming on the heels of the tragic, politically motivated mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso last August. In the conversation surrounding that shift, The Hunt was criticized in the media and, seemingly, by President Trump.
But to take The Hunt on its premise alone is to miss the point, as it’s through-and-through a satire where hippie-dippy, woke, liberal caricatures compete with rhino-hunting, conspiracy-minded conservative distortions, and none of them are portrayed as being anything close to righteous. Where this war in our real world may have begun on the airwaves of cable news and has been fought largely from the relative safety of social media anonymity, The Hunt takes this splintered political dialogue to its ultimate, bloody, and ridiculous endpoint in the form of a human hunting expedition.
Before anybody saw it, Universal and Blumhouse’s The Hunt was the subject of much controversy last year, but it turns out that the actual film and its hyper-violent social commentary is smarter than it was given credit for back then. Director Zobel and writers Lindelof and Cuse, peering through the lens of social media hijinks and polarized politic...
Mar 11, 2020 · The movie’s fanciful premise — that a bunch of blue-state Americans were killing some of their red-state fellow citizens for sport — upset a few people who hadn’t seen it and who may have been...
- Craig Zobel
- A.O. Scott
- 89 min
Mar 13, 2020 · movie review Mar. 13, 2020. The Hunt Is a Gleeful Exploitation Flick Ruined by Delusions of Relevance. By Alison Willmore, a Vulture film critic. Betty Gilpin is a delight, but this...
- Alison Willmore
- Movie Critic
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 57% based on 276 reviews, with an average rating of 5.9/10. The site's critics consensus read, " The Hunt is successful enough as a darkly humorous action thriller, but it shoots wide of the mark when it aims for timely social satire."
Mar 11, 2020 · The Bottom Line Women take over the most dangerous game. Release date: Mar 13, 2020. The Hunt wouldn’t be what it is without its leading lady, Crystal, played by Betty Gilpin of Netflix’s GLOW ...
