Review of The Hunter (2012) by Pinattar — 21 Jun 2012

This is a really great movie. great acting from Dafoe, writing, directing. the cinematography is especially stunning, they filmed on location and used wide pans of Tasmanias' landscape. the tone and atmosphere was also very well done, because of the lack of dialogue and the look of the movie you get a very mysterious fell throughout, also every scene has Dafoe in it (if a remember correctly), so we only see what he sees.

there were however some problems with the kids character, I didn't feel like they were thoughtfully written, they seemed incomplete, particularly how they were so upbeat seeing that their father had been missing for weeks and there mother wasn't altogether there.

but one could argue that we only see what the hunter sees, which might not be an accurate representation of the charterers. all in all, I think this is a great movie if you don't mind slow movies with many scenes featuring only one actor and little dialogue, if you don't then you'll find this movie very boring.

basically if you enjoyed The American with George Clooney (which is very similar to this) then you will enjoy this movie. ps. there is a scene after the end credits that answers a question (but also creates another).