Fantastic!

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

I happened to find "The Hunter" at the local secondhand DVD store and at a price of $2 it as worth a try. A with Willem Dafoe at the helm you are already well on the way. And I will say that this was a good movie, and Willem Dafoe had a lot to carry and he came through on every account."The Hunter" is about Martin (played by Willem Dafoe) who is sent from France to the Tasmanian wilderness by his employer to look for the elusive Tasmanian tiger.While the movie is mostly just Dafoe out in the wilderness, then there was just something majestic and fulfilling about the movie. Not only did Dafoe carry the movie so well and put on a great performance, but the beauty of the movie and the atmosphere was just spellbinding.I think it was a shame that Sam Neill didn't have a bigger role in the movie, because he is also a great actor."The Hunter" is the type of movie that creeps up on you, sinks its teeth in and sticks with you. If you haven't already seen it, you should take an hour and a half to actually sit down and watch it, because it is a beautiful movie.

Such a good actor like Sam Neill completely wasted, speaking 10 lines. Stereotyped overunfriendly rednecks lumberjacks, about whom we know nothing. A woman that suddenly goes from sleeping on pills many days in a row to a super feminine almost beauty queen who seems to fall in love with a complete stranger who even doesn't have time for her and when he does they talk about her missing husband. Willem Dafoe looking almost too old for a guy that has to spend whole weeks in forests, on mountains and in caves, wet and cold. Most of the film is about Dafoe driving a car and setting up traps. Almost nothing happens. When you finally see the animal he is hunting, it's for about 1 minute and the CGI is really bad (unnatural). Suddenly Dafoe has scruples, decides to become a good guy and leave the job, but all the same he kills the last exemplar of a species, instead of trying to save it somehow?!? As if he had nothing better to do, and not being related in any way to that place, he then goes on to become the step father of a boy he had spent just a few hours with.The high ratings made me expect more of this movie.

Thought to be extinct, the Tasmanian Tiger has been recently sighted. Maniacal "They" at pharmaceutical Red Leaf seek to obtain a monopoly on the paralytic agent the tiger uses on its prey, and murder in pursuit of exclusive patent rights.In an act of ecological courage, mercenary hunter turned omniscient do-gooder Martin David (Willem Dafoe), kills and burns the last Tasmanian Tiger. In so doing, he prevents evil "They" at Red Leaf from achieving their greedy goal, prevents people who might unwittingly benefit from the resultant morally tainted drug, and acts as a champion for the now extinct Tasmanian Tiger, whose unique evolutionary advantage will, thanks to Martin, never be exploited for the well being of humanity.The movie uses a technique of hiding the plot, providing hints throughout the movie as to what it might be. While many may become frustrated with the slow, plodding nature of the script and lack of dialogue, there is extreme skill exhibited by the movie makers. They are able to extrude the chocolate of weak plot over the 102 minutes of the movie. Unfortunately, the message is standard Hollywood pablum, recycled over again unimaginatively in "The Hunter."

I just finished this film and found it to be a good watch, it's a slow moving film but a viewer with some patience should find it quite emotionally satisfying. Defoe is once again magnificent and plays a hunter out on the trail of possibly the last Tasmanian tiger left in existence. He comes into a place where he is not wanted by the locals and his only sanctuary is with a mother and her two children who's husband/father was lost mysteriously while tracking the very same animal. The two children play very different parts, the girl a precocious little chatterbox and the young boy very possibly scarred by his fathers disappearance and left speechless. Both children are terrific little actors and even though the boy does not have much to say verbally he still expresses himself quite clearly and Defoe's character seems to speak his language. Overall this movie is very unique and beautifully shot, It's minimal dialogue and picturesque surroundings leave your mind to ponder what is around the bend and what the story's characters may find in each other. if you need a movie with a fast pace and a typical storyline then this may not be what you're looking for but to me it's a very good indie and shouldn't be missed.