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Reviews. The Hunt. Monica Castillo March 20, 2020. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. This originally ran on March 13, and we are re-running because of its early VOD drop. Craig Zobel ’s “The Hunt” is filled with more memes than plot.
Mar 13, 2020 · 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. Read Critics Reviews. TOP CRITIC. Feb 2, 2021. TOP...
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Mar 11, 2020 · Reviews. Mar 11, 2020 7:10am PT. ‘The Hunt’: Film Review. An intense, over-the-top satire of partisan politics taken to its most dangerous extreme, Craig Zobel's controversial thriller...
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
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- 89 min
- A darkly comic satire of our political divide.
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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...
Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 4, 2023. Manuel São Bento MSB Reviews. The Hunt is a brilliantly dark satire on today’s political views of the world. It’s meant to be one of the most...
Mar 11, 2020 · The Hunt is a film that definitely benefits from having an audience that knows as little about it as possible going in, as the twists and surprises it has in store come flying at you immediately,...
