The Hunting Party (2007)

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About the movie

Year

2007

Runtime

1 h 41 min

Genres

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Countries

United States, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Director

Richard Shepard

Writers

Richard Shepard, Scott Anderson

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Starring

Terrence Howard

Richard Gere

Gordana Vukres

James Brolin

Jesse Eisenberg

Main cast

Terrence Howard Duck

Richard Gere Simon Hunt

Gordana Vukres Girl at Awards Ceremony

James Brolin Franklin Harris

Sanela Seferagic Sexy Assistant

Damir Saban Gert

Aleksandra Grdic TriBeCa Loft Girl

Jesse Eisenberg Benjamin Strauss

John W. Falk Journalist #1

Scott Anderson Journalist #2

Harald Doornbos Journalist #3

Philippe Deprez Journalist #4

Erich Rathfelder Journalist #5

Zan Marolt Journalist #6

Ljubomir Kerekes The Fox

Kristina Krepela Marda

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External critics' reviews

Like many of the best movies about war and its lingering echo, The Hunting Party is full of dark humor. Writer-director Richard Shepard, maker of 2005's "The Matador," is becoming a master at finding the right tone, balancing the seriousness of his characters' purpose with the madness of their intentions. more

What makes The Hunting Party an original, gonzo treat is the way that Shepard plants the movie's tone somewhere between hair-trigger investigative danger and the from-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire glee of a Hope/Crosby picture. more

It's a hilariously half-baked scheme, one that quickly turns them from hunters to hunted, but the strength of The Hunting Party is its shaggy-dog quality. more

Throw in some business with the CIA, add a small army of Serbian thugs and a mysterious Croatian beauty, and The Hunting Party picks up speed, careening through the forests where the Fox may or may not be hiding out. Whatever fate awaits, it can't be good. But it can be fun. more

When a movie is a hybrid of this sort, it can be tough to strike just the right tone. Mostly, The Hunting Party manages. more

The Hunting Party does a good job of illustrating Winston Churchill's observation, "There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result." more

Writer-director Richard Shepard assembles all the elements for a dark suspense comedy only to lose his way in a surfeit of plot mechanics and unlikely behavior. more

Alternately glib, superficial and amusing, pic vainly attempts to absorb some degree of Serbian irony into a story that's unavoidably lessened by its privileged American vantage point. more

The characters are flat, too: Richard Gere plays your typical desperate, embittered war reporter; Terrence Howard is your typical cameraman/sidekick/narrator; and Jesse Eisenberg rounds out the standard-issue trio as your typical nervous rookie, in over his head. more

As energetic and irreverent as it is -- the movie never finds the inspired blend of edgy black comedy and gleeful journalistic adventure that it's after. more

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