Steve McQueen's last film had him playing Papa Thorson, a modern day bounty hunter based on a real person.
Thorson goes after bail jumpers all over the country and his assignments in the movie get more dangerous.
Rocco Mason is a psycho that Thorson caught. He is stalking Thorson's pregnant girlfriend.
Sadly The Hunter is episodic in nature and the screenplay has disconnected incidents joined up to make a movie.
Thorson is portrayed here as a lousy driver. He goes to an all black neighbourhood, crashes into a car repeatedly as he tries to park and a black man who owns the damaged car just shouts at him.
The action scenes are badly directed. One of them involving a combined harvester wants to be humorous but is just stupid. A long chase scene involving a train just fizzles out with a car ending in the river.
McQueen was ill when he made this movie but he still looks good in his scenes. It is just a shame he did not go out in a better movie.
Thorson goes after bail jumpers all over the country and his assignments in the movie get more dangerous.
Rocco Mason is a psycho that Thorson caught. He is stalking Thorson's pregnant girlfriend.
Sadly The Hunter is episodic in nature and the screenplay has disconnected incidents joined up to make a movie.
Thorson is portrayed here as a lousy driver. He goes to an all black neighbourhood, crashes into a car repeatedly as he tries to park and a black man who owns the damaged car just shouts at him.
The action scenes are badly directed. One of them involving a combined harvester wants to be humorous but is just stupid. A long chase scene involving a train just fizzles out with a car ending in the river.
McQueen was ill when he made this movie but he still looks good in his scenes. It is just a shame he did not go out in a better movie.