Just under the title there is one sentence describing the whole movie "... a man turning hunting of humans ... a sport...?!" Really?! There are certain places in the movie underlining that instead he is hunted (see movie title :). He just trying to avoid to be cought and killed, not sentenced ... But not running... He just was used, honored with medal and prepared for disposal. In fact the men in grey used police to do there dirt work. So, really he is one of them?! Abraham is not bother with killing his son, isn't he?! The man who protect the wild life make his first kill being of his former student who embrace respect of living creatures as he do. There are deep connections beside amusing of watchers in this movie!

I recommend it for anybody who loves intense action movie fans! It is so phenomenal to see Benicio Del Toro go against Tommy Lee Jones in the end. I loved this whole movie from beginning to end! Whoever made this deserves to be more recognized! It is just so intense and awesome I would love to congratulate every single one of the cast members for this intense action thriller! As a matter of fact I never knew anything about this film until I got it at the library back in 2006 and I didn't know what to expect. My Gosh though when I saw it I thought it was going to be a boring drama but it literally blew me out of my shoes. As soon as I finished watching it I thought I have to have this movie! Sure enough I bought and it couldn't stop watching it over and over to this day. I give it a solid 10 out of 10! Everything was perfect!

Traumatized by an event in Kosovo, a specially trained assassin by the name of "Aaron Hallam" (Benicio Del Toro) deserts and secretly takes refuge in the forests of Oregon. Unfortunately, having gone completely insane he subsequently kills and dismembers some deer hunters who he believes are agents sent to either bring him back or kill him. This results in the FBI getting involved and a request for the assistance of the man who trained him named "L. T. Bonham" (Tommy Lee Jones). What the FBI doesn't realize is just how effective and vicious Aaron has become. Now rather than reveal any more of this film and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that people who enjoy action movies with little regard for reality will probably love this particular picture. Admittedly, there were several parts which were entertaining. But other parts were so totally unbelievable that I found it quite difficult to accept in a serious manner. Only in Hollywood. Likewise, although I liked the presence of Connie Nielsen (as FBI agent "Abby Durrell"), I thought Tommy Lee Jones wasn't quite suited for his particular role and that factored into my overall rating as well. Slightly below average.

A soldier (Benicio del Toro) with PTSD takes to the Portland, Oregon woods in Rambo-like fashion. He's paranoid and kills a couple of businessmen from nearby Medford who were weekend deer hunters. The soldier believed the men were CIA spooks sent to find him. The film reveals that he's a Special Forces operator named Aaron Hallam who is AWOL. Hallam is shown to be haunted by his service during the Kosovo War, where he assassinated high priority targets with his hand-forged combat knife. The knife and others like it were forged by Hallam and the others he trained with and is a weapon of significance in the film. An FBI-led manhunt manhunt begins with Special Agent Abby Durrell (Connie Nielsen), who's assisted by L.T. Bonham (Tommy Lee Jones). Bonham was a civilian survival and combatives expert who instructed Hallam during his advanced training. Bonham is a recluse but the FBI bring him into the investigation as a consultant. He's able to identify the specific type of knife and footwear, a moccasin with no tread, used by the killer. It turns out Hallam felt a paternal connection to Bonham that the latter didn't reciprocate. Bonham reveals during a conversation with Durrell that he was never in the armed forces because his father, an Army colonel, had kept him from enlisting after his older brother was killed in Vietnam. His father was also an outdoorsman and survivalist who taught Bonham everything he knew. Hallam becomes more violent and dangerous as the manhunt for him tightens and increases in size. Bonham and Hallam are forced to confront each other in a strange almost kung fu movie style student-mentor battle. There are a few problems I had with this movie. Why would a Special Forces soldier have a hand-forged knife as his only weapon? If the FBI and police had arrested an armed and dangerous fugitive with specialized military training wouldn't he be in a maximum security lock up? A civilian would probably not be allowed to interrogate him either. Oh, well. The Oregon wilderness of Silver Falls State Park where the wilderness scenes were shot is magnificently beautiful. The combat is intense and well-choreographed. It was base on the Filipino martial art of Kali. Kali relies on close-quarters grappling, striking, stick and of course knife fighting. It resembles the close combat style featured in the Bourne films with Matt Damon.