2020 Directed by Craig Zobel
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted turns the tables on her pursuers.
Betty Gilpin Hilary Swank Ethan Suplee Teri Wyble Ike Barinholtz Wayne Duvall Emma Roberts Christopher Berry Sturgill Simpson Kate Nowlin Amy Madigan Reed Birney Glenn Howerton Steve Coulter Dean J. West Vince Pisani Steve Mokate Sylvia Grace Crim Jason Kirkpatrick Macon Blair J. C. MacKenzie Tadasay Young Hannah Alline Jim Klock Usman Ally Ned Yousef Iyad Hajjaj Justin Hartley Hans Marrero Show All…
Damon Lindelof Craig Zobel Jason Blum Jeanette Volturno Couper Samuelson Steven R. Molen Nick Cuse Kevin Roberts
Monique Champagne Jessica Stumpf Brian S. Freeman Bethany Horning Dwight Stanley Zac Tate Cassie Catalanotto
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i can't say with which of these two i identify the most... the pig or the dude who asks where the hand sanitizer is
“The Hunt” begins with a bunch of NPR-addicted neoliberals poaching a wild pack of Trump-worshipping MAGA types for bloodsport. Director Craig Zobel’s ultra-violent satirical update of “The Most Dangerous Game” aspires to be the movie that America needs right now; it’s a giddy slaughterhouse of mirrors that hopes to bring this country together and make it great again by reflecting the absurdity of us vs them resentment. The movie literalizes the rhetoric of a culture war that has divided the United States into “globalist cucks who run the deep state” and “redneck deplorables” with little wiggle room in between. Blumhouse’s latest blast of low-budget social commentary tries to split the difference between centrists and nihilists — between “bothsidesism” and “nosidesism”—…
Wanted to support this film especially after its theatrical run was cancelled twice. But looks like Blum and team will make a ton off of this and Invisible Man since they are the hot early access streaming titles during the quarantine.
Fun, interesting spin on Most Dangerous Game. The conceit is over the top and politics are a bit muddled but it's a genre film meant to entertain so I'm fine with that. Red and Blue aren't black and white in reality and that's represented nicely.
Betty Gilpin is solid. And it's always great to see Macon Blair.
I wonder if a new franchise has been birthed. I'll see the sequel.
Rented on Amazon
Look I'll give this credit for a commitment to cheap thrills and, like everyone else is saying, Betty Gilpin was a lot of fun. But this is mostly just kind of smug in its calling out of what's allegedly dangerous hypocrisy on both sides, and the caricaturing it has to do in order to make that argument -- which is exactly the kind of lazy shorthand that generally gets labelled satire these days -- is consistently eyeroll-inducing.
okay a few points:
- she kinda snapped
- I blinked and emma roberts was gone
- I LOWKEY LOVED THIS IM SO SORRY FILMBROS
sorta like Battle Royale but with the potent expression of adolescent rage concerning adult condescension and senseless violence replaced with a bunch of broad american culture war signifiers. not even half as provocative as it think it is and the action mostly sucks
Rotten Tomatoes: 50
Metacritic Metascore: 54%
IMDB: 6.5
79/100
Release Date: 13 March 2020
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Budget: $14M
Worldwide Gross: $6.5M
Total Film Awards: TBD
Crystal: "Cigarettes are $6 in Arkansas. YOU DONE FUCKED UP BITCH!!”
SYNOPSIS: Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specific purpose - The Hunt.
I still held out hope that it would be released eventually following its cancellation last September because of the political backlash it received, and luckily Universal still had the guts to do so. In fact, their recent media spots have only exploited the controversy of the cancellation/delay…
Satire (noun):
the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
Farce (noun):
a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.
You pick.
Cause the makers clearly picked one and made the other.
