just as described
Added 6/29/2009
Product was delivered promptly and just as described. Nothing to complain about or improve on.
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Papa Thorson
Added 5/25/2009
I agree with all reviews which seem to indicate the middle of the road. I like it a little more because it was filmed in Chicago. A good movie from a great actor.
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Mildly entertaining but not a must-see
Added 5/22/2009
I love the classic McQueen films like Bullit and The Great Escape. This film is not in the same league and is frankly a bit silly, although it has some good moments (especially the Trans Am cornfield car chase) and a little light humor too. One of the worst aspects is the lack of any background character development regarding the psychotic killer after McQueen. Who is he? Why does he hate Papa Thornson? What is with the war paint on his face? There are no answers to any of these questions. I also found the score to be very cheesy. It sounds like the music from a Brady Bunch episode. Finally, I found the killing of an innocent bystander during one chase to be too cavalier, with no sense of regret on the part of the hero. All in all it is a poorly written and directed script.
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McQueen Out
Added 4/12/2009
McQueen's last picture is this serviceable 80s action yarn. It's best when he's out on the street, less effective in the set-bound interiors, including Steve's seemingly cavernous L.A. bungalow. There are two terrific action set pieces. One's a chase on the Chicago el, and earlier there's a cornfield contest between a Trans-Am and a reaper that eats up the corn in an image that seems to predict Pac Man. (You could watch it for hours.) The amusing comic conceit is that speed-demon McQueen (in an awesome jacket) is a bad driver lumbering around in an antique ride he's incapable of parallel parking. (Less amusing are his drunken complaints that his ravishing, pregnant girlfriend didn't abort the child they're expecting at any minute.)
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Last American Action Hero.......
Added 1/23/2008
Steve McQueen's The Hunter did not receive great criticism, but who cares!!!
It was McQueen's last film. It was all about him. It was all about him doing what he does best(acting real, tough, and yet vulnerable)
McQueen is one of the last old school action movie star who possessed such a qualities. Look at those modern action movie stars today, they have no character what so ever, and they are just superficial iron pumping bodybuilders who is not even athletic in actions.
McQueen was perfectly cast as real life bounty hunter, Ralph, papa, Thorson. It was the perfectly portrayed as what real tough guy used to be like. It is sad for America that they just don't make them like McQueen anymore,
I can only imagine/dream about how he would be developed as an actor if he didn't pass, and yet making The Hunter would be greatest thing for his last standing......
This move also features Old cowboys like Ben Johnson, Eli Wallach (co-star of The Magnificent Seven), beautiful Kathryn Harrold, and TV Roots, LeVar Burton. I really don't think McQueen could not ask anyone better than them.
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just as described
Added 6/29/2009
Product was delivered promptly and just as described. Nothing to complain about or improve on.
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Papa Thorson
Added 5/25/2009
I agree with all reviews which seem to indicate the middle of the road. I like it a little more because it was filmed in Chicago. A good movie from a great actor.
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Mildly entertaining but not a must-see
Added 5/22/2009
I love the classic McQueen films like Bullit and The Great Escape. This film is not in the same league and is frankly a bit silly, although it has some good moments (especially the Trans Am cornfield car chase) and a little light humor too. One of the worst aspects is the lack of any background character development regarding the psychotic killer after McQueen. Who is he? Why does he hate Papa Thornson? What is with the war paint on his face? There are no answers to any of these questions. I also found the score to be very cheesy. It sounds like the music from a Brady Bunch episode. Finally, I found the killing of an innocent bystander during one chase to be too cavalier, with no sense of regret on the part of the hero. All in all it is a poorly written and directed script.
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