{"id":8304,"date":"2020-03-15T11:57:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T15:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8304"},"modified":"2020-03-15T11:57:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T15:57:07","slug":"review-the-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8304","title":{"rendered":"Review: THE HUNT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newnan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/thehunt1-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8438\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newnan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-6-10-1-192x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7912\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Hunt\u201d is another in a long line of loose adaptations of Richard Connell\u2019s 1924 short story \u201cThe Most Dangerous Game.\u201d Aside from some clever work by Betty Gilpin (see Netflix\u2019 \u201cGLOW\u201d), this nasty little film provides mild thrills and occasional chuckles.<br><br>Tell me you\u2019ve heard (or seen) this one before: twelve strangers awaken in a clearing in a weird, unknown rural area having no idea how they got there or why. In minutes, it becomes evident that they\u2019re being hunted. One-by-one, they fall victim to unseen attackers. But the killers weren\u2019t counting on one of the prey turning the tables. The hunters are about to become the hunted.<br><br>\u201cThe Hunt\u201d is directed by Craig Zobel, who gave us 2012\u2019s \u201cCompliance,\u201d and the entertaining 2007 indie \u201cGreat World of Sound.\u201d The problem isn\u2019t with Zobel\u2019s directing choices; instead, this is a picture that is almost too familiar ever to be anything more than weakly derivative. Because this adaptation is written by Nick Cuse and Damon Lindelof, the duo behind HBO\u2019s outstanding \u201cWatchmen,\u201d you\u2019d think that something new would have been injected into the story to cause the viewer to sit up and take notice.<br><br>The overt political tomfoolery afoot in \u201cThe Hunt\u201d almost does the trick. The hunters are one political persuasion, and the prey is another. This political polarization reminiscent of the current real-world climate had great potential, and it was in that material that producers eked out some free media exposure. Last year, \u201cThe Hunt\u201d was pulled from release out of concern that its message would be insensitive, given the tragic shootings in Dayton and El Paso.<br><br>In keeping with the sardonic tone of this affair, laughs do come, exposing the hunters as tone-deaf. However, the shallowness of these broad jokes only serves to undermine the film\u2019s central premise: the basis for the hunt is never credible.<br><br>Read the rest of Jonathan&#8217;s review online and in print in the Times-Herald: <a href=\"https:\/\/newnan.com\/2020\/03\/13\/the-hunt-thinly-veiled-political-satire-works-only-as-a-shallow-violent-actioner\/\">https:\/\/newnan.com\/2020\/03\/13\/the-hunt-thinly-veiled-political-satire-works-only-as-a-shallow-violent-actioner\/<\/a><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinly-veiled political satire works only as a shallow, violent actioner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[183,620,412],"class_list":["post-8304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-blumhouse","tag-politics","tag-satire","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8306,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8304\/revisions\/8306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}