SummaryTV News reporter Simon Hunt and cameraman Duck have worked in the world's hottest war zones: from Bosnia to Iraq, from Somalia to El Salvador. Together they have dodged bullets, filed incisive reports and collected Emmy awards. Then one terrible day in a Bosnian village everything changes. During a live broadcast on national television, Simon has... Read More
Directed By:Richard Shepard
Written By:Richard Shepard, Scott Anderson
The Hunting Party
Metascore
Mixed or Average
54
User score
Generally Favorable
6.7
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
55% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
32% Mixed
7 Reviews
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14% Negative
3 Reviews
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Like many of the best movies about war and its lingering echo, The Hunting Party is full of dark humor. Writer-director Richard Shepard, maker of 2005's "The Matador," is becoming a master at finding the right tone, balancing the seriousness of his characters' purpose with the madness of their intentions.
75
When a movie is a hybrid of this sort, it can be tough to strike just the right tone. Mostly, The Hunting Party manages.
70
Writer-director Richard Shepard assembles all the elements for a dark suspense comedy only to lose his way in a surfeit of plot mechanics and unlikely behavior.
63
Everything about this political thriller is ridiculous.
50
Truth be told, none of it is actual living, and all of it is secondhand re-spinning of such better movies as "The Year of Living Dangerously" and "Welcome to Sarajevo." To use an antiquated newsman's cliche: Get me rewrite.
40
A misfired, misguided would-be satire.
25
A complete bust, but the ways in which it fails are interesting.
User score
Generally Favorable
61% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
28% Mixed
5 Ratings
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11% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
Aug 14, 2018
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I guess there is people for everything. This shouldn't exist. 30' and I had to just stop watching. If you aren't funny, why don't you do the Appatow thing and write some REEEEEALLLY dumb movie and that's it. Why try the art of making people laugh in a smart way when you can't write a joke?
Production Company:
- Intermedia
- The Weinstein Company
- Cherry Road Films
- Cherry Hill Productions
- Covert Media
- Jadran Film
- QED International
- Sin Sentido Films
Release Date:Sep 7, 2007
Duration:1 h 41 m
Rating:R
Tagline:How can they find the world's most wanted war criminal when the C.I.A. can't? [by actually looking]
