Very difficult to make a movie where the antagonist is invisible. The killer suffers from delusions and is supposedly a skilled knife fighter, taught by L.T. (Tommy Lee Jones). The problem is that the story doesn't go anywhere. How do you fight an enemy you can't see? I kept asking myself why I was watching. Lots of action, but dull. I also thought the knife-fight training was ridiculous. You only have to cut the carotid artery, and the person bleeds out in a minute or two, if that.

Tommy Lee Jones saves a wild wolf from a snare and the wolf does not even snap at him. I let that go. The movie jumps from Tommy Lee Jones in snow covered British Columbia to him vomiting from a helicopter ride in a now full on summer (maybe early fall) in Oregon just an eight hour drive from his BC home. Maybe that is possible. I have never been to either place. I let that go. The last leg of the movie begins with an A-Team sequence in which both antagonist and protagonist construct their own knives. Maybe a stone knife could be made in short order, but a forged metal blade, really? Oh, the antagonist also made deadly hair trigger traps from logs, paracord, and vines (???) while you weren't looking, because forging a knife takes so little time and energy that he killed some time waiting for TLJ to chip his knife. I could not let these things slide. I can put aside my disbelief for drawn out fights and an older man running and jumping far past the point of heart attack, but not the A-Team in a serious movie. The Hunted was entertaining and maybe even a 7/10 until it plummeted over the ludicrous A-Team waterfall.

I love this film. It's one of my favorite William Friedkin films. Although it lacks wit and edginess that some of his other films have, like the overrated French Connection, Exorcist and To Live and Die in L.A., The Hunted is still very much grounded in reality like most of his films. It also features Friedkin's signature car chase sequences, which he's only done four (French Connection, To Live & Die in LA, Jade, and The Hunted).Being from Portland, Oregon, the movie does a stellar job of portraying Portland visually with it's cloudy overcast and raining appearance, as it happens about 9 months out of the year. The Cinematography is great, which is always expected from a great cinematographer like Caleb Deschanel. However, the cinematography still has Friedkin's signature all over it with Hand Held cameras, Natural lighting or aka Induced Documentary, a style which is now overused today since the French Connection.The story although very simplistic yet is quite complex. Many reviewers on here refer to this film a duplicate of First Blood, but it doesn't come across to me that way nor do i see the connection other than its military aspect. The Knife fight scenes are pretty amazing. Overall i still love this film today. Metaphorically the film is pretty much the game hide and seek except, if you're it, you're dead. Let the games begin. I hope the film comes out on Bluray soon.

L.T. is a trainer that teach others how to kill in the fastest and precise way possible. After several deer hunters are found dead in the woods FBI seeks the help of L.T. in order to find the person who did this and he knows after seeing the place where the murders occurs that never the less the author is his best student that he had Aaron. Now he begin his pursuit after him but finds out that is not that easy catching a man who is younger and fastest then him.The Hunted is a good action movie, with two of the best actors for this gender and switching the landscape from an forest to the crowded city make the film more interesting to follow and keeps the spectator on the edge of the seat.