The Hunt

I rented this by accident, instead of the film of the same name with Mads Mikkelsen. I didn't realise this until after watching it though so took it at face value. I do enjoy this genre so I just thought I'd ordered it on purpose.

It's not great. It has elements of Hostel, Running Man, Hunger Games, amongst others and an odd back story around a porn writer. The latter was hard to follow and I never fully figured out what he did or was trying to do. This didn't seem to matter though as once the main plot kicked in it became irrelevant. It was visually pretty good, surprisingly so for an obviously low budget film. The action was pretty good too and there was a sense of drama and tension. However the grizzly graphic violence went wildly beyond anything required for the plot or artistic value. I'm not averse to violent films and it can give a sense of the true horror of a situation, however in The Hunt all we got was more and more hideous body parts and blood.

It was hard to sympathise with the only proper character and the others were pretty empty. By the end - I won't give it away in case you still want to watch it - I had little interest left. It was only on trying to figure out why I had rented this film that I discovered its poor reviews. Not really worth watching, to be honest. At least it's short.