FilmSnobReviews

Title: Hunter
MPAA Rating: Not Yet Rated
Director: David Tarleton
Starring: Jason Kellerman, Rachel Cerda, Nick Searcy
Runtime: 1 hr 30 mins

What It Is: MMA fighter Hunter (Kellerman) was doing just fine. Winning fights, kissing women, and generally having an amazing life. After a tragic event strikes and Hunter believes he’s at fault he loses it all. Now he roams the street homeless and aimless pondering if what he really saw happen…happened. With the help of Danni (Cerda) a volunteer from a homeless, he’ll try to get his life back together one piece at a time.

What We Think: So the story for this is kind of all over the place. At one moment we’re given a homeless man’s redemption in another something completely different. It’s as if there are two stories here that want to be told but aren’t done well. Too often there’s a trope or some other deus ex machina that bails the story out. A lot of the acting comes off as too stiff and rigid leaving me questioning motivations and unsure of the plot developments. Speaking of those motivations those moved from one thing to another with far too much quickness and far too little explanation.

Our Grade: D+, A saddening display of retelling an already told story. One that hasn’t been told well cinematically…at all. Nonetheless, I cannot recommend this to anyone. It really isn’t worth your time and while not an utter and complete failure. It does some things well. It looks okay, but can’t get out of its own way up to and including the words in its script. I think with a film like this just a bit more patience would have helped it out slightly. With that said if you are really interested in the twist that’s in here do whatcha gotta do?