Pretty lame. A hunter, Martin (played by Willem Dafoe), is hired by a mysterious company to go to Tasmania to hunt for the last remaining Tasmanian tiger.Not good at all. Plot is all over the place. Direction is equally unfocused. Main performances by Willem Dafoe, Frances O'Connor and Sam Neill are solid, especially considering the weak script they had to work with. However, the supporting performances are quite weak, especially by the kids and the actors playing the aggressive locals.Only reason to watch this is for the beautiful Tasmanian landscapes.

Such a good actor like Sam Neill completely wasted, speaking 10 lines. Stereotyped overunfriendly rednecks lumberjacks, about whom we know nothing. A woman that suddenly goes from sleeping on pills many days in a row to a super feminine almost beauty queen who seems to fall in love with a complete stranger who even doesn't have time for her and when he does they talk about her missing husband. Willem Dafoe looking almost too old for a guy that has to spend whole weeks in forests, on mountains and in caves, wet and cold. Most of the film is about Dafoe driving a car and setting up traps. Almost nothing happens. When you finally see the animal he is hunting, it's for about 1 minute and the CGI is really bad (unnatural). Suddenly Dafoe has scruples, decides to become a good guy and leave the job, but all the same he kills the last exemplar of a species, instead of trying to save it somehow?!? As if he had nothing better to do, and not being related in any way to that place, he then goes on to become the step father of a boy he had spent just a few hours with.The high ratings made me expect more of this movie.

I gave it a 5 for scenery and Defoe's performance. But the plot is muddled and the ending not really pleasing. Also, the picture of the rat faced "tiger" in the movie doesn't even seem to be accurate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine The one shown above doesn't look anything like the movie's depiction. But the scenery which actually shows many parts of Tasmania as a truly wonderful looking place. Too bad they didn't have better screenwriters and better publicists. Who ever heard of it? It went almost directly to video, obviously but with Defoe and Neill it should have surfaced. But as it was it just wasn't cohesive enough to entertain a large scale audience.

No..., not a love story but rather a nature story. Brokeback Mountain holds the best nature filming by far. I wasn't interested in neither story but I love the nature scenes of both these films. The story could have been different like a hunter following a lost friend's will to find this extinct animal and perhaps ending the film with photography evidence. Killing something doesn't work. The film could have used a little more action. Did the hunter kill seals, polar bears or any type of marine animals? Always think of a possible sequel to a story; therefore you'll have a great film to begin with. Has the hunter ever killed a man before? He seems to have no regret for killing his hostage taker. The end seems like the hunter tossed in the towel on hunting.