Absolutely the worst movie.

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Stone Cold Steve Austin is in fine form here as he plays a former Border Patrol officer in Texas who loses his partner (Eric Roberts, wasted in a pre-credits cameo) in a bust gone bad. Four years later, he's working in Montana (although the movie was actually shot in British Columbia), trying to raise a rebellious teenaged daughter (Marie Avgeropoulos) as a single dad. Then the two of them are confronted by a gang of robbers, who need Stone Cold to guide them through the mountains; they're in pursuit of the robbery mastermind, who'd absconded with the loot.Frank Hannah wrote this refreshingly uncomplicated storyline, which suffers from some implausibilities, but manages to remain watchable and entertaining. At least it has a hero who takes some lumps and isn't always ten steps ahead of the bad guys the entire time. As with "The Stranger" (the last Stone Cold vehicle this viewer has seen), SC isn't the problem here. He shows poise and confidence, and can get his lines out adequately. He may not be terribly expressive, but you still have no doubt as to his ultimate ability to mess up his opponents in a major way. His somewhat antagonistic relationship with his kid is at least somewhat believable.There are not many familiar faces here, other than Stone Cold, Roberts, Gil Bellows as the main bad guy, action genre icon Gary Daniels, and veteran Donnelly Rhodes as the expendable local Sheriff. The cast is pretty nondescript, but passable; they play characters despicable enough that one is amused to see them get their just desserts. Bellows is a mild hoot; even though he's not that intimidating, he still gets turned into the kind of superhuman villain that will have to be "killed" a few times. The filmmakers might have done better to make Daniels, as the toughest of Bellows' associates, the final antagonist.The writing may have its fair share of stupidities (why is it that in so many movies of this ilk, cops NEVER wait for their backup?), but this viewer personally is able to forgive a fair bit of silliness, as long as a movie holds his attention. And "Hunt to Kill" is a fair thriller that did at least manage to do that.Six out of 10.

Now, I'm usually against dumbed down action movies, but this movie is pretty much straight up about what it is.It starts with some expositionary dialog in the beginning about Steve Austin's Character with Eric Roberts as his side kick. Incidentally, Eric is only in this film for about five minutes, but his quick demise allows people to put his name on the DVD cover so you think you are watching a better movie than you are.Still, the movie has some awesome scenery in the ROckies, Austin is passable and likable as an actor, the villains aren't cardboard cutouts, but have some depth to them. The ending is a bit silly, but really, I think they worked on the Spielberg rule that if you've brought the audience along this far, they'll go along with anything.There are a couple of scenes where Austin does some wrestling moves. Because you can't have a movie with a wrestler in it and not expect him to wrestle, I guess. Well, it's more plausible than "Hell Comes to Frogtown"...

"When I hunt…I hunt to kill."Stone Cold Steve Austin stars as a US Border Patrol agent on vacation in the Montana mountains in quite a bind as his daughter is held hostage by a group of menacing bank robbers out to find the security bonds stolen by the leader of their heist operation who ran off with the loot leaving them with a bomb set to go off when he calls a number to the phone attached by wires to the C-4. Gil Bellows (the man Ally McBeal had google eyes for) is hell bent on finding Lawson, the old timer who left them to die, heading by van into the Montana mountains. Bellows is a nasty individual with a mean streak and doesn't adhere to any moral code as he shoots an innocent sheriff just to make a point to Austin that he is willing to do whatever it takes to get his hands on what he believes belongs to the group. What happens as Austin, who knows the mountains better than anyone, takes the cold-blooded bunch into the wilderness to find Lawson is standard action genre fare—Austin will break from the pack, with the thought of keeping his daughter alive if at all possible while reducing the numbers in Bellows team.What I thought was fun about HUNT TO KILL was the use of thick sticks to impale members of Bellows bunch while Austin tosses action hero quips shortly afterward. Austin, of course, is just like Rambo and can fall down the rocky sides of mountains, get stabbed or shot repeatedly, take massive blows from hard objects, and bleed like a stuck pig, yet keep coming—God, I love action movies for these sorts of implausibilities. Bellows finds his inner beast in this movie, no conscience, willing to break any sort of possible negotiation for that bag of bonds—the embodiment of the repellent action movie villain, with a pack of wolves ready to devour his leftovers if they are needed. Because of his rugged looks and blue-collar persona, Stone Cold is believable in a role where the character lives off the land and knows how to make weapons using what nature provides. When he puts on his "war paint" and begins to blend in with his surroundings, I was like, "Give me a hell yeah!" Using his crossbow and sharpened spears, and especially his fists, you get plenty of Stone Cold opening a can of whoopass—particularly when Stone Cold snaps the limbs of Carl when he attempts to rape his daughter (Big no-no). Oh, if you think Stone Cold can take a licking, check out the damage Bellows withstands, such as several slugs to face with a shovel and a fall through wooden pallets from off a scaffold. So HUNT TO KILL has the identifiable traits we are accustomed to when watching dumb, loud action movies. Breathtaking, gorgeous location where all the action transpires( the Vancouver, Canadian wilderness substituting for Montana) is most definitely an asset in the film's favor. Eric Roberts shows up in a (really) small cameo as Austin's former Border Patrol partner who gets it when the two raid a meth lab. Michael Hogan is Lawson, with Gary Daniels as Bellows' British henchman (Jensen), Emilie Ullerup as the stunning Dominika (betrayed by Lawson and left to blow up with the bomb trap)who wants to get even with her former lover, Marie Avgeropoulos as Stone Cold's tough, resilient daughter (Kim), Michael Eklund as computer techie Geary with big mouth and aggressive, antagonistic nature (not to mention, his need to bring out his stun gun to tease Dominika who is more man than he is, the pipsqueak), and Adrian Holmes (as Crab, always screwing up and finally goes one step too far when he tries to rape Kim) round out the cast.

This is a film with action!!!...it has a story?....it has actors that do the gym and show you how fit they are!!!...they look mean....they look right into the camera lens...there is also some comedy...some nice shots of the countryside...even some "sex" to a small degree thanks to Dominika (Emilie Ullerup)...but i have to be honest, the guy that made this film must think the punters that are going to the flicks to see this, or at worse pay good money to buy the DVD version is a joker in the first degree...a very slow and predictable start...watch carefully as you see the main man Jim Rhodes (Steve Austin) is given a wrist watch, "it will help you out one day"...so to insult us viewers we see him use this strap to abseil down a 150' rock face...and by the time he is at the bottom its a climbing rope...come on we are not stupid....then muscle man Austin falls down another rock face....only to climb back up with no significant injuries...i never did understand why the double-crossing bad boy Lawson (Michael Hogan) went on foot into the wood...he has a vehicle....then he throws the stash away down the cliff....for all to see....so to sum up...it is a "B" movie which has some action but a weak story line that ends up very predictable...Banks (Gill Bellows)gets run over...don't waste you cash...go buy a burger...it wont leave a bad taste in your mouth afterwards...