The rest of the film could have sucked and I’d still recommend it for those scenes. We are involved in the immediate, exhausting, draining physical work of fighting. They both know the techniques of hand-to-hand combat, but in real life, it isn’t scripted, and you know what? It isn’t so easy. Their blows land solidly, with pain on both sides. They live in a world of gravity-free speed-up. We’ve seen so many fancy high-tech computer-assisted fight scenes in recent movies that we assume the fighters can fly. Roger Ebert summed it up best in his positive review: Something about a knife fight grabs me by my primeval caveman nature, and I’m going to say it: The Hunted‘s two blade battles are among the most gritty, raw fight scenes committed to film in the last several years. And let’s face it, we all love a good, old-fashioned dagger duel (don’t we? maybe not…). It’s in no way a perfect movie (it mocks plausibility during the final act). Essentially, Del Toro plays a special-forces soldier who goes on a killing rampage in the Oregon forests while his former mentor (Tommy Lee Jones in muted Sam Gerard mode) hunts him down. Which is really all the excuse I need to throw some attention on William Friedkin’s woefully underrated The Hunted, another film in which Del Toro lost his shit and eviscerated people in the woods. We finally get to see Bencio Del Toro go primal in The Wolfman this weekend. NOTE: The video in this post spoils a portion of the ending of The Hunted. Benicio del Toro and Tommy Lee Jones in The Hunted
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