The Hunter
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Movie Reviews of The Hunter
Movie Review: Papa Thorson
Summary: 4 Stars
I agree with all reviews which seem to indicate the middle of the road. I like it a little more because it was filmed in Chicago. A good movie from a great actor.Movie Review: McQueen Out
Summary: 3 Stars
McQueen's last picture is this serviceable 80s action yarn. It's best when he's out on the street, less effective in the set-bound interiors, including Steve's seemingly cavernous L.A. bungalow. There are two terrific action set pieces. One's a chase on the Chicago el, and earlier there's a cornfield contest between a Trans-Am and a reaper that eats up the corn in an image that seems to predict Pac Man. (You could watch it for hours.) The amusing comic conceit is that speed-demon McQueen (in an awesome jacket) is a bad driver lumbering around in an antique ride he's incapable of parallel parking. (Less amusing are his drunken complaints that his ravishing, pregnant girlfriend didn't abort the child they're expecting at any minute.)Movie Review: More Blanks Than Bullits
Summary: 3 Stars
The worst you can say about "The Hunter" is that it was unfortunately Steve McQueen's last film. The best you can say is that it's watchable. For sure, even in McQueen's frail condition he oozes charisma. It's pretty neat that his character, bounty hunter Papa Thorson, is a bad driver. It's also cool that McQueen reteams with his "Magnificent Seven" co-star, Eli Wallach. It's just that this is standard lukewarm action fodder. Check it out if an episode of "Mannix" isn't on. While we're at it will somebody put on disc "Soldier in the Rain", "Love With the Proper Stranger", or "An Enemy of the People."Movie Review: THE HUNTER: Steve McQueen's last film, DVD.
Summary: 3 Stars
The film has a made for TV look to it, especially the way, many of the action sequences, occur in slow motion. Not a bad film, but not a great film either.Movie Review: Limp final offering from the great McQueen
Summary: 2 Stars
It must have looked like a winner on paper - the foremost action hero of his age - true life story of bounty hunter, car chases, human story, terrific cast with a real chance for acting... It's not a disaster, but it's a limp effort at either a character piece, a bio, or an action movie even though it has elements of all three.
The movie covers a period in the life of the real life bounty hunter (supposedly the last...) of `Papa' Thorsen. His exploits catching various guys on the run, is contrasted with his life at home where he not only has a soft spot for lost causes, but has a beautiful wife pregnant with his child. Some semblance of drama to drive the movie along is given by one of McQueen's ex catches getting out of jail and threatening to kill him (yawn). McQueen tries hard to go against type and add various character touches, so we get a man who drives badly and cant park properly (an in-joke on McQueen's legendary driving skills, but taken way too far), he loves old things - vintage wind up toys, pocket watches - but with no reason other than to provide `character'. He does not like the birth classes his wife goes to - but lo and behold turns out to be a trooper in the end... It does not entirely work - instead, we are left with a recognizable (though clearly aging) McQueen with various layers of mannerisms and affections.
Supporting cast should save the day - Kathryn Harrold as the long suffering girlfriend is one of the best things in the picture. Every now and again there is a grand entrance of a character - Ben Johnson's sheriff for example - but he then 5 minutes later vanishes without fanfare. Only Eli Wallach hovers around for the greater part of the picture, and a youthful Levar Burton, post-Roots, pre-Star Trek The Next Generation has presence, but no reason to be there.
There are a couple of interesting set pieces - the car chase in the multi storey car park, the shootout on the train - but without a plot or story to hang on, they fall flat.
Steve McQueen is almost always worth a watch, but here the vehicle for once just isn't enough for the great man. A shame his last film was so lacklustre.