The Hunted The Hunted Your Comments About This Movie!
March 1997
I too am glad to see someone liked the movie "The Hunted." If you watch "The Hunted" for its acting, then you will be slightly disappointed, because it can be melodramatic in places. Nevertheless, it still remains my favorite action movie. I have been a great fan of Kenjutsu and Japanese culture for many years. I found the movie very accurate in its depiction of a samurai's tunnel vision of the world, concerning his goals. I was very pleased to see Kodo appear in the movie. They were at the taiko concert that Lambert and Chen went to see after their drink at the bar. Kodo is a traditional japanese drumming group that played the entire soundtrack for the movie. I have seen them in concert and was very impressed. The music could not have been more fitting for the movie, and do know that throughout the entire movie, all of the music was accurate traditional Japanese taiko. I have no complaints about this movie nor its actors' supreme physical abilities. By the way, Ohshima, is Tak Kobuta, a karate master. I would have liked to have seen his skills more. :)
--Adam Goodwin
# # # January 1997
Ahhh! Finally! Someone else who thinks "The Hunted" was great! I thought your review was great. "The Hunted" is an entertaining, action-packed, and even funny film. I'm very interested in the old samurai, and I was thrilled when this film came out! It's "Ran" crossed with "Highlander"! I loved the Oshima character and thought he was hilarious. You're right. This isn't "Gone With The Wind" or anything. It's entertaining, though, and I was under the impression that entertainment was the purpose of movies! I say to all the people who disliked the movie: Baka Film Critics! (Ideot Film Critics!) Sorry, I've watched The Hunted too many times. :)
--Strike Fiss
# # # December 1995
After reading all the bad reviews about "The Hunted," I'm glad someone agrees that it is not a bad film. It's supposed to be bloody with slice'n and dice'n. This isn't a Woody Allen film for God sakes! Comedies are supposed to be funny, and horror films are supposed to be scary. When I first heard of the sword swinging movie staring Christopher Lambert, I was thinking "Oh great, not him trying to use a sword again." But I was very surprised to find some actors with some real skill. I've always loved Samurai movies and admired their skill and honor. Lawton did a great job in providing the subtle details in the movie: "The code of the Samurai" and Takeda making a notice of Paul Racine's name like the French poet; as a Samurai should know his poetry. I thought the performance from John Lone was pretty good, and Joan Chen looked too good. I'm going to have get a copy on VHS as soon as it hits video stores.
--Zhen Yu Zhu, NCSU