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Written by Nick Cuse and Damon Lindelof, “The Hunt” proves how “both-siderism” doesn’t always logically pan out. How could a pack of liberals easily upset by the sugar in soda, climate change and gendered language turn to kill for sport?
Mar 13, 2020 · In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted...
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- Craig Zobel
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- Ike Barinholtz
Mar 11, 2020 · ‘The Hunt’: Film Review. An intense, over-the-top satire of partisan politics taken to its most dangerous extreme, Craig Zobel's controversial thriller delivers the excitement, if not necessarily...
Mar 11, 2020 · ‘The Hunt’ Review: The Culture War, With Heavy Casualties. Betty Gilpin battles the snowflakes in a bloody satire of polarized America. Share full article. 40. The director Craig Zobel...
- Craig Zobel
- A.O. Scott
- 89 min
- 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...
Craig Zobel's "The Hunt" is definitely a new favorite! This film's strongest assets are the eccentric but strong female lead, versus the overall "worthlessness" of the rest of the characters. By this I mean that literally everyone can die at any given moment - and many of them will - regardless of how significant or insignificant their roles ...
Notes. References. External links. The Hunt (2020 film) The Hunt is a 2020 American satirical action horror film [a] directed by Craig Zobel and written by Nick Cuse and Damon Lindelof. The film stars Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, and Emma Roberts.
