After making the fantastic It’s Winter in 2006, Rafi Pitts takes a mis-step with Hunter. A silent, brooding movie, the plot centers on a man who has lost his wife and daughter in a cross-fire between the police and insurgents. In vengeance, he kills a random cop and escapes into the jungle, pursued by two policemen. Although this may read as an action-thriller, the movie is neither. It observes the mostly silent man, played by the director himself, but does not make clear why we are observing him. Pitts performance does not let on anything, the story does not suggest anything either. Hunter ends up becoming a string of sequences that, for all the beauty they are presented in, are detached and ineffective. The movie required a faster pace with more action/thrill sequence, or a more accomplished actor – one with a strong screen presence – to carry it off.
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