The Hunting Party
Five years after a meltdown on national TV, journalist Simon Hunt joins forces with a former colleague, and a cub reporter to find the No.1 war criminal in Bosnia. However, their extremely dangerous target decides to come after them.
3 September 1979, Virovitica, Croatia
4 September 1979, Croatia
13 July 1956, Zagreb, Croatia/Hrvatska
15 July 1976, Algermissen, Lower Saxony, Germany
28 October 1976, Zagreb, Croatia
March 22, 2011
It's not a bad story as far as it goes, and says a lot about the strange culture war journalism ... [but] no story, no matter how interesting, can't do without a little bit of the Hollywood treatment, and "The Hunting Party" suffers that in spades.August 27, 2009
Adorns its bankrupt inanity in the robes of ImportanceSeptember 22, 2007
By the time the end credits roll, you're still not sure what kind of movie The Hunting Party is supposed to be, other than just queasy.August 26, 2008
Tense, funny, disturbing and touching from moment one.September 21, 2007
The Hunting Party is a complete bust, but the ways in which it fails are interesting.December 17, 2007
The action plot is lousy with cliched suspense scenes of back-road executions halted at the last possible instant.September 21, 2007
...it does make room for the latest, loose-screw character part in the reinvention of Gere's career.September 21, 2007
...The Hunting Party still is a movie worth chasing down.July 06, 2010
Features some truly outrageous events.... But filmmaker Shepard struggles to avoid action and comedy clichesMarch 03, 2008
The most intriguing parts of this film are contained in the voice-over montage in the beginning and a surprise ending, leaving a lot of filler in the middle.February 22, 2008
Ludicrous, bewildering, and largely true (at least the "most ridiculous parts" according to the film's preface), it plays like an adventure story written by KafkaFebruary 02, 2009
There are a lot of movies that don't deliver on their promise. The Hunting Party is one of them. It's a disheartening disappointment.