The Hunting Party (DVD)

BACKGROUND INFORMATION Famous and talented American director and writer Richard Shepard directed the movie named 'The Hunting Party' and has been released 14th September, 2007 in USA and later world-wide. It is a comical satire of political stance and role of different international organizations about war-criminals and this movie can be considered as adventure/thriller movie genre. Richard Gere and Terrance Howard play the main characters in this movie. The storyline revolves around the Bosnian war (1992-1995) and aftermath of this war and how this has long-term influence on general public as well as on war-journalists. CLOSER LOOK AT THE ...  Read the complete review

The Hunting Party is an excellent action thriller that stars Richard Gere alongside Terence Howard in what I think is one of Richard Gees better movie performances. In the film Gere plays war reporter Simon Hunt, a man who has seen action across many world conflicts while Howard plays his camera man and also provides the narration for the film. This is a film about war ciminals and the sometimes dirty aspects of wars, it is a powerful film that leaves the viewer with a hightened sense of the complete futility of war and a certain amount of cynicism at the war the media portray things and those that commit war crimes. Set initially at the time of ...  Read the complete review

Given how often we've seen hard boiled political thrillers like Blood Diamond and Body of Lies and such, it was only a matter of time before a filmmaker decided to parody the conventions of such films, and The Hunting Party is a strange amalgam that parodies these conventions but is also quite serious and politically charged in its own regard. Thus, we get an odd film that seems quite schizophrenic in content although it is undeniably well performed by its two lead cast members. The film revolves around a journalist named Simon Hunt (Richard Gere) who, during a broadcast about the Bosnian War, is unable to maintain his composure and is then left to become a ...  Read the complete review

The Hunting Party is an excellent action thriller with an impressive cast that includes Richard Gere and Terence Howard. Gere plays a war reporter called Simon Hunt, he has experienced war all around the world and Howard is his cameraman who is known as Duck and he also narrates the story as well as he looks back over their recent past. The focus of the story is on the actions of war criminals and certainly it sets out to highlight the unsavoury aspects of war. The film opens with the pair cobering the Bosnian War however Hunt is carcking up under the pressure and is angered by what he sees, an on air live rant costs him his job and Duck is partnered up ...  Read the complete review