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09/15/07
The Hunting Party (2007)
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Reviews Counted:86
Fresh:45
Rotten:41
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: The Hunting Party is tonally awkward: its shifts from dark satire to serious political thriller create an uneven film, despite best efforts from its game leads.
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: On the fifth anniversary of the end of the civil war in Bosnia, former hot-shot reporter Simon Hunt (Richard Gere) mysteriously shows up, five years after imploding on live television and... [More]
Starring: Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Jesse Eisenberg, Diane Kruger
Director: Richard Shepard
Reviews for The Hunting Party
...it does make room for the latest, loose-screw character part in the reinvention of Gere's career.
09/21/07
Ludicrous, bewildering, and largely true (at least the "most ridiculous parts" according to the film's preface), it plays like an adventure story written by Kafka
02/22/08
The whole is reasonably diverting, but on the other hand not very special.
09/12/07
Hopefully, The Hunting Party will find the success it needs to keep Shepard making off-center movies because Hollywood doesn't always reward hard-to-categorize films like this one.
09/21/07
Immersed in cynicism and dark humour, this movie wins us over early on and then holds our attention with a compelling story and a trio of interesting central characters.
09/17/07
Politics aside, The Hunting Party is a breezy, occasionally bumpy ride that ultimately becomes a satisfying journey.
09/14/07
[Director] Shepard strikes just the right absurd, satirical tone until near the end, when he allows the film to wrap up a bit too conveniently.
09/14/07
...The Hunting Party still is a movie worth chasing down.
09/21/07
It's likely you've heard that "war has its bright side," but in The Hunting Party, Duck (Terrence Howard) speaks with the sort of authority that comes with experience, as if he's telling you something you don't know.
09/15/07
Harder to adjust to the humor within the country's tragedy, but Shepard's talent and sensibilities as a filmmaker keeps things light and entertaining.
09/04/07
A great yarn in the spirit of cynical war pictures like 'Three Kings.'
09/20/07
Tons of fun and definitely worth the price of admission.
09/07/07
Tense, funny, disturbing and touching from moment one.
08/26/08
All you need to know about The Hunting Party is the film's opening disclaimer: "Only the most ridiculous parts of this story are true."
09/14/07
It's a funny, horrible story (with black humor of the sort many war correspondents write about), shot mostly in Croatia and nicely paced.
09/22/07
Gere is almost unmatched at portraying wacky characters like Hunt. He is so charismatic that you believe he can charm, manipulate and/or con just about anyone.
09/25/07
The most intriguing parts of this film are contained in the voice-over montage in the beginning and a surprise ending, leaving a lot of filler in the middle.
03/03/08
On paper, there's no way that The Hunting Party should work. But onscreen, it defies the odds.
09/20/07
A spry, surprising and intelligent comedy.
09/20/07
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