
A young journalist, a seasoned cameraman and a discredited war correspondent embark on an unauthorized mission to find the no. 1 war criminal in Bosnia; they find themselves in serious jeopardy when they are mistaken as a CIA hit squad and their target decides to come after them.... (Full plot summary below)
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A young journalist, a seasoned cameraman and a discredited war correspondent embark on an unauthorized mission to find the no. 1 war criminal in Bosnia; they find themselves in serious jeopardy when they are mistaken as a CIA hit squad and their target decides to come after them.
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| Village VoiceRobert WilonskyLike many of the best movies about war and its lingering echo, The Hunting Party is full of dark humor. Writer-director Richard Shepard, maker of 2005's "The Matador," is becoming a master at finding the right tone, balancing the seriousness of his characters' purpose with the madness of their intentions. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen ColeThe Hunting Party does a good job of illustrating Winston Churchill's observation, "There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result." |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaThrow in some business with the CIA, add a small army of Serbian thugs and a mysterious Croatian beauty, and The Hunting Party picks up speed, careening through the forests where the Fox may or may not be hiding out. Whatever fate awaits, it can't be good. But it can be fun. |
| USA TodayClaudia PuigWhen a movie is a hybrid of this sort, it can be tough to strike just the right tone. Mostly, The Hunting Party manages. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanWhat makes The Hunting Party an original, gonzo treat is the way that Shepard plants the movie's tone somewhere between hair-trigger investigative danger and the from-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire glee of a Hope/Crosby picture. |
| The A.V. ClubScott TobiasIt's a hilariously half-baked scheme, one that quickly turns them from hunters to hunted, but the strength of The Hunting Party is its shaggy-dog quality. |
| Cleveland PressTony MastroianniThe Hunting Party" is no picnic. It is a gory western for audiences with strong stomachs. It also is pretentious. |
| The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttWriter-director Richard Shepard assembles all the elements for a dark suspense comedy only to lose his way in a surfeit of plot mechanics and unlikely behavior. |
| VarietyRobert KoehlerAlternately glib, superficial and amusing, pic vainly attempts to absorb some degree of Serbian irony into a story that's unavoidably lessened by its privileged American vantage point. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldAs energetic and irreverent as it is -- the movie never finds the inspired blend of edgy black comedy and gleeful journalistic adventure that it's after. |