Good concept, poorly executed.

Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

**SPOILERS** Having saved a sled dog from being torn apart in a savage dog fight trapper Albert Johnson, Charles Bonson, get's involved in a shooting, in self-defense, that has the Royal Mounted Canadian Police sent to arrest him. The head of the Mounties in the district, the northern Yukon, Sgt.Edger Millen, Lee Marvin,is anything but interested in capturing Johnson feeling that he killed one of those trappers who were out to kill him. The group lead by Hazel, Ed Lauther, who's dog Johnson saved now were determined to track down and kill Johnson feeling that he's the notorious "Mad Trapper" that everyone in law enforcement north of the Mason Dixon line are looking for.Johnson a loner who wants nothing to do with the outside world ends up being chased up the Yukon wilderness as he tries to make it to safety in the inaccessible wilds of Alaska. It' during the chase that were introduced to the real "Mad Trapper" who Johnson is mistaken for. This lowlife, the "Mad Trapper", has a habit of murdering his unsuspecting victims and then pulling their gold teeth or fillings out of their mouths.Together on the hunt, for Johnson, with the no so interested Sgt. Millen is his new deputy the Dudley Do-Right-like Constable Alvin Adams, Andrew Stevens, and Millen's sidekick the former Negro League star pitcher Sundog or George Washington Lincoln Brown Played by Carl Weathers. Millen who's been cooped up in the Youkon for years has finally gotten romantically involved with an attractive American woman Vanessa McBride, Angie Dickerson, compared to the Eskimo hookers, that he calls buffalo women, that he's used to partying around with. Venessa who had come up north to pick up her dead husbands things, his watch and trapping license, fell heads over heels for the weather beaten and dog-faced Sgt. Millen who, with the exception of Constable Adams, was about the only normal and sane man in the area. That despite his constantly guzzling down bottle after bottle or rat gut moonshine and smoking notoriously smelly home made cigars. It also turned out that the frustrated Hazel, who had everything going wrong for him in the movie, looking to get some hot action for himself, in the freezing and unfriendly Yukon winter, took an enormous liking to the very cute and boyish Constable Adams. As expected Hazel ended up, after Adams cold cocked him, almost six feet under when he got a wee bit touchy feely with the young Mountie.****SPOILERS**** With all the efforts to catch him that included a WWI vintage airplane, Johnson did make it to the safety of the Alasken border but only after knocking off almost all those in Sgt. Millen's posse who were trying to both kill and capture him for a reward of $1,000. As we soon learned Johnson wasn't the ghoulish "Mad Trapper" that almost everyone accused him of being. It was both Sgt. Millen and Constable Adams who, with the help of Johnson, unwittingly tracked the "Mad Trapper" down and finally ended his reign of terror in the northern territories.

If you can look past the legion of historical inaccuracies, you'll probably enjoy Death Hunt, a bringing together of Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson, along with Angie Dickinson in a story of a wrongly-accused trapper harassed and chased by the RCMP and a posse made up of men, none of whom has an IQ above that of a pine tree.The 1931 story, filmed fifty years after the fiction (who would accuse the script of being factual?) showcases Marvin and Bronson at the near-end of their useful careers. Ol' Lee growls and grumbles at having to train a rookie Mountie (Andrew Stevens) and never cracks so much as a sweat. You can tell that he was informed to play his character as the caricature Lee Marvin (and not the vibrant and edgy Marvin of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Cat Ballou, and Point Blank). What you get is an impression of Marvin, by Marvin.Bronson fares worst, simply because he's given nothing to do except look athletic and kill posse members. He's fascinating to watch, not because he says or does anything overly important, but because you keep hoping the Bronson of The Magnificent Seven and The Dirty Dozen will appear . . . and slap the sillies out of the bad guys.It never happens.Yet, Death Hunt is an entertaining, if lazy chase film. Considering the murderous inflation of the year it was shot (1980), DH looks genuine on the cheap. My quibbles are with the tight shots (to hide whatever anachronistic scenery couldn't be dealt with) and the overly-dramatic musical score.The next time it shows on AMC, catch it. The R-rated film comes to the little screen almost completely intact. I saw the movie on HBO back in the early eighties and my impression of what has been hacked out is just a few crudities and a boob or butt. The gory violence appears intact. The only reason I mention this is that if you sit down to watch this with your 13 year old or above kiddies, you won't have too much cringing to do.Not a bad two hours to blow, with a couple old friends named Marvin and Bronson!

This is one of Charles Bronson's more popular vehicles (though I've missed it more than I care to remember in the past!) – as much for his pairing with Lee Marvin as for the tough, snow-bound action of the plot.The film, in fact, is based on true events depicting a bloody manhunt which has gone down in history; ironically, its source seems to have been a trivial argument about possession of a wounded dog! While the location photography is pretty spectacular, the narrative tightly-paced and the action sequences undeniably well-handled (Peter Hunt being a veteran of James Bond movies as both editor and director), it's unfortunate that characterization – the posse grows in number once a bounty is offered for the capture of trapper Bronson – is mostly relegated to unpleasant stock types.Even if both stars (who only get to share one scene) were clearly ageing by this time, they bring conviction to their respective roles: Bronson demonstrates his characteristic quiet fortitude as the hunted man, while Marvin is the experienced and tenacious lawman on his trail (but whose cynicism gives way towards the end to reveal an essential humanism underneath). Angie Dickinson briefly supplies the redundant love interest to Marvin's character; this was the last of their three pairings – the other titles being the far superior THE KILLERS (1964) and POINT BLANK (1967).

according to one of the comments made on this movie, the pilot of the Bristol F2A aircraft was a WW1 pilot named 'Wop" May. "Wop" was the nickname of Wilfred May who also had another larger claim to fame. He is the Canadian pilot that Manfred von Richtofen, the Red Baron was chasing on April 21, 1918 when he was killed either by a shot fired from the ground as facts suggest, or from the air by May's squadron mate Captain Roy Brown. It was one of May's first missions and as he was still an inexperienced pilot, he had been ordered by Brown to stay out of combat if at all possible, but during a combat with Richtofen's squadron, a fokker triplane flew by May and he couldn't resist going after it. he failed to shoot it down and because his guns had jammed, he broke from the combat and headed home. Von Richtofen saw him and attacked, and it was in the following battle that he lost his life. May went on to become a successful pilot and ace in his own right, and following the war had a career as a bush pilot.