Gil Bellows plays a "genius" whose importance to his company is critical, and he is pursued by a headhunter. The headhunter is nuts. So far so good.His boss, to whom his loyalty is unswerving, has supposedly invested $8.5 million into this new company and yet Gil's wife complains they can't afford a new washing machine. Why is he so loyal then? He's clearly getting shafted! At one point he is also told to take a potential investor to lunch and to spend big to give the impression that they are "rolling in dough." $8.5 million buys a lot of lunch.Bellow's wife seems to be dumber than most of the contents of their fridge, if not all. Her character is completely unbelievable, in her level of trust to the headhunter, in her lack of trust of her husband, in her failure to show any response at all when it is clear to everyone the headhunter is a maniac. If I was Bellows I would have killed her myself. She is as horrible and shallow as she is dumb. And Bellow's character is no less dumb at times. He gets a gift from someone he hates for his daughter and yet he gives it to her. Nobody would do that. Nobody. His instant conversion to Bale's buddy is equally ludicrous.Every frame of this movie is ridiculous, with a climax where we are supposed to believe that the athletic, psychopathic and armed headhunter is defeated by the gawky and geeky Bellows, who looks like he can barely manage to break into a run. I'd bet the house on the headhunter winning that one 10 times out of 10.Appalling movie, worth watching only to laugh at its inanity. Especially good are the "techno" sections. At one point there is a screen displaying binary in a huge font, as if that's useful to anybody. Maybe the high (low) point of the movie.

Christian Slater leads this cast in a superb performance he plays a head hunter that will stop at nothing to get what he wants. In the world of hi tech technology a man in charge of a small company is pursued by a hot shot from a higher up company, This is a game were know one wins. Estella warren plays and average role as the mother and wife and Michael Clarke Duncan plays his role for a good amount of time, any longer and for that reason could have ruined the movie for me. The twist was just what i was looking for, Not realistic and not over the top but believable is in which all movies should end with. If you enjoy a good thriller of if you are a fan of b grade films then you have picked the right movie. This is one for the collection.

SPOILERS THROUGH:Christian Slater stars in this movie as Vincent Palmer a corporate recruiter, who has one major problem, that being that he is insane. Gil Bellows plays the hapless guy who Palmer targets as the perfect person to fill a job for his client. The only slight problem Is that this guy has no interest in changing jobs. But that's not a problem for Mr. Palmer. He'll just force the guy to take the job by stalking him, threatening violence and generally making his every moment a nightmare.This movie sounded like it had potential. Not as being a good movie but as being one of those "so bad it's good" movies, the kind one loves to hate, knows is bad, but for some inexplicable reason watches(more then once) and is pretty entertained by anyway. That however was not to be with Pursued. It wasn't "so bad it's good" it was just bad period.Stalker movies have been done and done again and it seems like every kind of situation has been covered but I must say I've not seen this done before so it did sound, at the very least interesting. Only it isn't. Within the movie's first few minutes, the viewer knows Slater's character is insane. The rest of the movie is spent waiting for someone in the movie to realize it. Bellows character kind of gets it but his passivity is really annoying as is the character of the wife who almost defies belief with HER reaction to the won't take no for an answer head hunter. And Slater's performance isn't as campy as I'd have imagined it would be. In fact the whole cast plays it pretty serious and the visual element to the movie is almost non existent. It's very mundane in that department.The technical aspects of the movie are not very interesting and the speech about the corporate executives becoming targets? Good speech but it sure didn't fit in this movie. (for some reason there was a brief moment where I felt a sense of deja vu, like I was watching the movie "Disclsure", a much better movie that has almost nothing in common with this one, but I could see a speech like this in a movie like that more then here.) So, because everyone seems to be taking the movie so seriously there's no camp. There are also no twists and turns. There are also no surprises. There is no character development. (ok-movies like this rarely have character development. But still....) Also It is just not that interesting. Almost everybody is annoying anyway and the few that aren't, are not given enough screen time. Plus many of the performers just mail in their performances anyway, though a few are actually pretty good. It's not unwatchable and isn't as bad as some of the other, more well known movies of this type, but on the whole this was still pretty Disappointing.

This movie was acted well and very realistic. Although the headhunter role was a bit over zealous, that is what makes it an entertaining movie. The character Ben was acted very well. Ben was an average guy who did what most people would: he was polite at the beginning and tolerated the headhunter up to a point. However, when he finally did have enough and took action he ended up in trouble with the law, which is also realistic. Contrary to most Hollywood movies in which people go around killing or beating people up without consequence or having to answer for their actions; this movie presented a very realistic perspective. What would one do if one were pursued by a headhunter who wouldn't take "No" for an answer and wasn't breaking any laws? Although to some extent a court restraining order may have resolved the issue – then it wouldn't have been much of a movie. This movie gave a credible and plausible story and is believable.