Night Hunter

The cast handles the sometimes ludicrous plot shifts with relative equanimity, although Cavill seems like he’s trying way too hard to embrace his role as a conflicted cop and father attempting to protect his teen daughter while pursuing a killer ruthlessly targeting innocent young women.

This is such twaddle it becomes kind of fun, except that there’s an uncomfortable feeling – as with many vigilante movies – that the film is revelling in the sexual violence and covering itself with the fig leaf of justice-seeking.

At a time when television is easier to make than films, it's a pity that a quart of plot in a pint-sized pot is largely to blame for this muddled misfire, which wastes some promising ideas and an impressive cast.

The film is so clichéd and scattershot as to make Copycat look like Peeping Tom by comparison.

Night Hunter is good enough that we can see why a cast of this caliber would sign on and trek to Canada in the winter. There are good scenes, good lines, a couple of good performances. But whatever coherence the players saw on the page was lost in the trip between the shoot on set and the editing bay, from the looks of it.

Caught between a hero with no personality and a villain with way too much (Fletcher’s slobbering performance has to be seen to be believed), Raymond comforts himself with shots of people gazing pensively at clues and pulling grisly things from drains.

As Nomis steps up the pace like a runner losing balance and falling forward, the clichés pile up and plot points fly at us more like insecure stabs at holding our interest than naturally edgy developments.

Nice plottwist, you didn't expect but very poor story. Good cast but wasted potential.

Night Hunter is your typical late night thriller. Everything as been done before and well better, the screenplay just looks like a direct to video from the late '90 but at least the direction was relatively decent. The acting was also more than correct, Brendan Fletcher is really fine and both Henry Calvil and Ben Kingsley was also very decent. Overall a nice turn-off-your-brain movie.

A plot that is full of holes, a story that fails to explain a lot, and dialogue that is terribly dull. Scenes change fast and often you are left wondering what is going on. Characters aren't introduced in a good way either. Multiple times I wasn't sure who was who. The plot twist was quite predictable too

It's off to a good start with Cavill and Kingsley right, wrong. The premise is actually very good and it had real potential but the writer(s) have tried too hard to keep the story evolving at an unrealistic pace. The final result is a big pile of contrived nonsense that becomes more absurd by the scene if not the minute. No matter how good the cast is, they can't save this dog. No doubt the cast regret being involved with Night Hunter and they'll leave it off their resume. I certainly regret watching it.

The entire thing just feels unfinished and unloved – which I’m sure was not the case at all but this is such a poor end product. Do you remember that time that you were at university and you were up at 3am with the 9am submission deadline getting closer by the second? Words had ceased to look like words, nothing made sense anymore and it had gotten to the point where you just said **** it” and submitted your essay without bothering to proofread it just so you were able to go and get drunk and forget about it? Yeah. That.