![]() ![]() When the weapons come out (most notably knives), you can be sure it won’t be long until someone is bleeding. Violent content: The Hunted absolutely drowns in brutality and gore. Sexual content: The Serbian commander makes an obscene sexual slur before meeting his maker. Johnny Cash’s “The Man Comes Around” plays underneath the credits and is packed with Biblical allusions. Spiritual content: The story of Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac surfaces three times, once through a Bible that’s been bookmarked at Genesis 22 and twice through snippets of the Bob Dylan song “Highway 61 Revisited” (“God said to Abraham, Kill me a son/Abe says, Man, you must be puttin’ me on”). confronts Aaron he tells him he must pay for his murderous crimes. becomes distraught that the tools of warfare he taught Aaron are being abused outside of a military context. Positive elements: Aaron regrets that humanity seems to have lost respect for nature. Has his student become fatally unhinged? In this true story based on the life of survivalist Tom Brown Jr., the teacher must find his pupil before more men perish. recognizes Aaron’s lethal skills at work skills that he had taught him. When hunters from Oregon and Washington begin dying, authorities find them in the woods dressed and quartered as one would a deer. Then one day the letters stop and Aaron simply disappears. He begins writing frantic letters, seeking help from his tutor in death, L.T. And shadowy, relentless figures stalk him ceaselessly. He sees the tormented visage of the Serbian commander as the knife plunges into his throat. He dreams about civilians being executed with Nazi-like efficiency. They color his every waking moment and cloud most of his sleeping ones. But while the commander quickly dies that night, in Aaron’s mind the events that comprise it live on forever. Because he is a professional, he does so with ease (and with a very sharp blade). As part of an American Special Forces group, it’s his job to sneak into that building and assassinate the Serbian military commander stationed therein. But none of the infernal scenery is Aaron’s concern, save one building. Flames feast on ruined buildings and thick gouts of fetid smoke flood the air as marauding Serbs casually mow down scores of defenseless Albanians with automatic weapons. Kosovo looks like the pit of hell to Aaron Hallam. ![]()
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