A weathered Lieutenant, his police force, and a local vigilante are all caught up in a dangerous scheme involving a recently arrested, troubled man who's linked to years of female abductions and murders.... (Full plot summary below)
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A weathered Lieutenant, his police force, and a local vigilante are all caught up in a dangerous scheme involving a recently arrested, troubled man who's linked to years of female abductions and murders.
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| IGNTom JorgensenA great cast including Henry Cavill and Ben Kingsley is wasted in the predictable serial killer thriller Night Hunter. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweThe cast handles the sometimes ludicrous plot shifts with relative equanimity, although Cavill seems like he’s trying way too hard to embrace his role as a conflicted cop and father attempting to protect his teen daughter while pursuing a killer ruthlessly targeting innocent young women. |
| The GuardianLeslie FelperinThis is such twaddle it becomes kind of fun, except that there’s an uncomfortable feeling – as with many vigilante movies – that the film is revelling in the sexual violence and covering itself with the fig leaf of justice-seeking. |
| EmpireDavid HughesAt a time when television is easier to make than films, it's a pity that a quart of plot in a pint-sized pot is largely to blame for this muddled misfire, which wastes some promising ideas and an impressive cast. |
| RogerEbert.comSimon Abrams"Unnecessary Roughness” is a more apt title for the scuzzy serial killer procedural Night Hunter. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreNight Hunter is good enough that we can see why a cast of this caliber would sign on and trek to Canada in the winter. There are good scenes, good lines, a couple of good performances. But whatever coherence the players saw on the page was lost in the trip between the shoot on set and the editing bay, from the looks of it. |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenThe film is so clichéd and scattershot as to make Copycat look like Peeping Tom by comparison. |
| The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisCaught between a hero with no personality and a villain with way too much (Fletcher’s slobbering performance has to be seen to be believed), Raymond comforts himself with shots of people gazing pensively at clues and pulling grisly things from drains. |
| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayThe biggest mystery in the serial-killer thriller Night Hunter isn’t the identity of a super-predator, or the location of his abductees. The real question here is how such a preposterous compendium of crime movie clichés could attract a heavyweight cast. |
| TheWrapRobert AbeleAs Nomis steps up the pace like a runner losing balance and falling forward, the clichés pile up and plot points fly at us more like insecure stabs at holding our interest than naturally edgy developments. |
