The Hunt (2019)

Six months after canceling its release, Universal and Blumhouse are reintroducing The Hunt. The satiric political thriller, which depicts rich, liberal "elites" kidnapping and hunting conservatives, will now hit theaters on March 13.

Morgan Rodriguez57 said:"This end" Google translated into American... 🙏 🤣

goldenhound32;78966913 said:

Honestly, this is an even bigger fail than those translation issues we saw earlier. They keep calling it a house or a villa, but our heroine ends up at this massive estate totally isolated in the middle of nowhere. Can anyone actually point me to a place like that in America? To me, it looks exactly like some high-end mansion out in the States.

And maybe regarding the license plates, they probably did that on purpose just to dodge any legal drama or complaints???
I mean, using a state's actual markings for a movie that might portray that same state in a bad light—and then if we try to file a formal protest, people just shrug and say "whatever, it's not even your plate, it's just similar except for the seal."
Even the military has different insignia, even though you can buy our army's patches pretty much anywhere.
But I honestly don't think they were even thinking about those kinds of details.
Same goes for the house; for your average viewer, it doesn't really matter, and since this shootout is happening somewhere in the deep, rural backcountry, it makes sense that you wouldn't find villas like that there.
Sure, they exist, but they're usually closer to urban areas, and no matter how much of a wilderness America has, it would be hard to hide a massive shootout and explosions like that, especially when you see the military hunting immigrants nearby. How do you cover that up unless you bribe the entire Senate to ignore the fact that a literal hunt for humans is going down?
Maybe somewhere in Africa, I guess.
But all in all, it's a decent enough film; I'm just curious who that woman actually is, because when they say they caught the wrong person and she tells that guy she was in Afghanistan, given how she handled herself, she'd have to be some kind of CIA operative or Delta Force type. You just don't teach skills like that to regular soldiers.

goldenhound32 said:A few thoughts on the movie itself.

It’s entertaining enough, I suppose. It’s just a shame it's so incredibly dim-witted.

Let's go through this systematically, as my grievances come to mind:

1. What exactly is the objective of this commando blonde? I was under the impression her goal was simply to stay alive. But apparently not. She decides instead to hunt down the scum trying to kill her. And she does this entirely alone, deciding to storm the "nest" where an unknown number of armed individuals are hiding. It is profoundly stupid, even though up until that point, she displayed a level of competence you might expect from a character in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

2. Why did the individual part of that wealthy group board the train? He was supposed to be infiltrating the immigrants, right? I can't quite wrap my head around the logic there; perhaps someone can enlighten me.

3. Following the final confrontation, the wealthy woman dies almost instantly, yet our commando heroine just cauterizes her wound like Rambo in Rambo III and carries on as if nothing happened. As if those three puncture wounds—shoulder and twice in the torso—don't exist. A total failure in realism.

Of course, it isn't entirely bleak. There is some decent humor present.
The sequence involving the turtle and the rabbit is excellent; perhaps the best part of the entire film.
That elderly couple is actually quite charming.