What makes it different from others?

Brilliant and touching

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Recap: Ben Keats is the director of small but upcoming company Viztrax (or something like it) that is about to hit it big. His success has not gone unnoticed and soon he gets a call from the executive head hunter Vincent Palmer. Palmer is brutally (literally) ruthless and won't take no for an answer. Palmer's methods are obsessive. Keats first thinks he can just turn him away but Palmer then begins to stalk him and his family. And Keats start to think that Palmer's methods are not so innocent. At the same time he got to handle his family that is starting to crack under the pressure.Comments: A thriller that quickly ran out of promise and got tiresome. The character Palmer is meant to be very obsessive and oppressive, yes, but this felt like over the top. I generally like Slater but this time he mishandled his role, or got the wrong directions from the director. And really, the set up doesn't hold. A homicidal head hunter? Really? But the worst fault was a classic one. One that many second rate thrillers have fallen into before, but this one seemed a need to explore once more. The one were the supposed victim thinks he can do it all himself so much that he is over and far beyond the line of stupidity. He don't communicate with his wife. Not at all. Some of that can be explained as they recently has hit a rough patch. But when Ben get pretty sure that Vincent is seriously dangerous, and threatens his family and Vincent still doesn't have any real hold on him yet, why don't he go to the police? Or at least the security consultant that his company already has hired? Instead he plays along, inevitably getting caught in Vincent's net.The cast is actually rather good, Gillows, Slater are joined by Warren and Clarke Duncan. But they never seem to get something going. And that sums up the entire movie. It never got going. There are many thrillers out there that are a lot better. Watch them instead.3/10

SPOILERS THROUGH:Christian Slater stars in this movie as Vincent Palmer a corporate recruiter, who has one major problem, that being that he is insane. Gil Bellows plays the hapless guy who Palmer targets as the perfect person to fill a job for his client. The only slight problem Is that this guy has no interest in changing jobs. But that's not a problem for Mr. Palmer. He'll just force the guy to take the job by stalking him, threatening violence and generally making his every moment a nightmare.This movie sounded like it had potential. Not as being a good movie but as being one of those "so bad it's good" movies, the kind one loves to hate, knows is bad, but for some inexplicable reason watches(more then once) and is pretty entertained by anyway. That however was not to be with Pursued. It wasn't "so bad it's good" it was just bad period.Stalker movies have been done and done again and it seems like every kind of situation has been covered but I must say I've not seen this done before so it did sound, at the very least interesting. Only it isn't. Within the movie's first few minutes, the viewer knows Slater's character is insane. The rest of the movie is spent waiting for someone in the movie to realize it. Bellows character kind of gets it but his passivity is really annoying as is the character of the wife who almost defies belief with HER reaction to the won't take no for an answer head hunter. And Slater's performance isn't as campy as I'd have imagined it would be. In fact the whole cast plays it pretty serious and the visual element to the movie is almost non existent. It's very mundane in that department.The technical aspects of the movie are not very interesting and the speech about the corporate executives becoming targets? Good speech but it sure didn't fit in this movie. (for some reason there was a brief moment where I felt a sense of deja vu, like I was watching the movie "Disclsure", a much better movie that has almost nothing in common with this one, but I could see a speech like this in a movie like that more then here.) So, because everyone seems to be taking the movie so seriously there's no camp. There are also no twists and turns. There are also no surprises. There is no character development. (ok-movies like this rarely have character development. But still....) Also It is just not that interesting. Almost everybody is annoying anyway and the few that aren't, are not given enough screen time. Plus many of the performers just mail in their performances anyway, though a few are actually pretty good. It's not unwatchable and isn't as bad as some of the other, more well known movies of this type, but on the whole this was still pretty Disappointing.

I saw this movie in a blockbuster sale and picked it up for a couple of quid, I am a huge Christian Slater Fan but the last time I did this I picked up the god awful 'Run for the Money' (Hard Cash) so I wasn't expecting much..As a Slater fan 'Pursued' in excellent, he steals every scene that he is in and plays the corporate psycho to perfection. The first 80% of this film is a delight and I would highly recommend it to anyone.It is also nice to see Michael Clarke Duncan in a normal acting role, he is so often used as just a big strong enforcer type and yet 'Green Mile' showed so much more, here he gets the opportunity to just act. As does Estelle Warren who is usually just used as a the sexy blonde.Gil Bellows is slightly disappointing and this is partly why I didn't enjoy the ending but I have seen a hundred movies worse than this and if you are stuck for a flick on a rainy day then this is definitely one to watch.

This movie was acted well and very realistic. Although the headhunter role was a bit over zealous, that is what makes it an entertaining movie. The character Ben was acted very well. Ben was an average guy who did what most people would: he was polite at the beginning and tolerated the headhunter up to a point. However, when he finally did have enough and took action he ended up in trouble with the law, which is also realistic. Contrary to most Hollywood movies in which people go around killing or beating people up without consequence or having to answer for their actions; this movie presented a very realistic perspective. What would one do if one were pursued by a headhunter who wouldn't take "No" for an answer and wasn't breaking any laws? Although to some extent a court restraining order may have resolved the issue – then it wouldn't have been much of a movie. This movie gave a credible and plausible story and is believable.