The Hunted is clearly inspired by the famous short story, "The Most Dangerous Game." However, Hunted manages to flip "The Most Dangerous Game" on its axis by giving us a primally brutal wolf fight between a rookie soldier and several mercenaries sent by Drake a leader of a terrorist organization, he wants some box full of classified documents that soldier Lawson is carrying, so he sends them off to kill him and bring the box back to him, what they didn´t know is beside he being a rookie he grew up in the mountains, and he´s a silent one, giving us silent kills, there´s not much talking once you´re in the woods.
There's a thick air of tension that runs through the entirety of the film's run time, something I would largely attribute to three things: it's realistic, intense violent subject matter; it's lack of a consistent music score flooding the speakers every five minutes and sparse dialogue; it's setting mostly taking place in the desolate bush. It's quiet, lethal and bloody.
For me one of the best indie movies i´ve ever seen, where the hunted waits for the hunters, there´s only one law here: to kill or be killed.
There's a thick air of tension that runs through the entirety of the film's run time, something I would largely attribute to three things: it's realistic, intense violent subject matter; it's lack of a consistent music score flooding the speakers every five minutes and sparse dialogue; it's setting mostly taking place in the desolate bush. It's quiet, lethal and bloody.
For me one of the best indie movies i´ve ever seen, where the hunted waits for the hunters, there´s only one law here: to kill or be killed.