Expected more

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

A second hand store was selling a whole pile of movies for 50cents and I felt like trying to find some funny bad movies. This is the first movie I watched.This isn't a bad movie thou. This is actually really engaging, with well shot action and a fantastic taiko influenced soundtrack (Japanese drumming).I have to talk about the train scene. Where Lambert and his new saviors board the high speed train and move to the bar section (around 12) while the assassins kill the train drivers then start moving through the carts killing everyone is sight. Lambert's savior moves down to meet them and move out the passengers then starts killing them and toying with them as he moves back to the bar section to finish them off. This scene is brilliant and well worth the watch.I'm not going to rattle on. If you haven't seen it yet then you need to give it a go.

*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILRS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS I didn't had big expectations for this one. After all it's a movie with Christopher Lambert . The guy specializes in rather trashy B-class movies (with the exception of "Greystoke" and "Highlander"). I didn't expected art or quality , but some decent movie to kill time . I must admit I have a soft spot for ninjas . Ninjas were popular in the 80's , but they don't appear that much in movies now. Judging by the summary I expected a simple revenge flick.Ugh… Where should I start ? What went wrong ? Christopher Lambert ends as a supporting character in his own movie . If you expected to see him fighting enemies like in "Highlander" you will be disappointed . For 99 % of the movie he just whines around and he fights in only last 10 minutes of the movie . And the final fight between Lambert and the villain is PATHETIC . I have to say I unintentionally felt sorry for the villain – the movie makers gave so much advantage for the hero in the final battle , that it just doesn't seem fair. And yet Lambert BARELY won … You have to see it for yourself – incredibly poor battle.The movie for most of the time feels like a bad drama . The viewer is caught in the conflict between two clans that is not one bit interesting or emotionally engaging. The flashbacks with Joan Chen are incredibly cheesy. There are many unintentionally laughable scenes ("Maybe I was wrong ") that make the movie hard to treat seriously. The fight scenes look rather cheap. The actors , especially the Asian ones give a terrible performances. Lambert is dull as always . The Asian actors (with the exception of Joan Chen) act like they barely know English. Their accents are awful. Last but not least – the music (which is just drums) is boring.There is some nudity and violence . Some cheap laughs and decent performance from Joan Chen. The old Asian guy is quite funny . Watch out for Toshiro Obata ("Teenage mutant ninja turtles") as one of the henchmen.It doesn't change the fact that this is a bad movie , even in the B-class range . Better watch "American ninja" with Michael Dudikoff or "Blind fury" with Rutger Hauer. I give " The Hunted" 1/10.

When viewing "The Hunted" you wonder who this movie is meant for. It could not be action fans since the action scenes are horrible. Sure there is a lot of blood. But none of the fighters showed any extraordinary skill. Here you have this so called ninja who has to kill this woman (Joan Chen) and in stead of just doing so he takes his time and asks her how she wants to be killed. Not only that he even shows his face to her.(Which of course is always a big no no for an assassin.) You might think that he is a decent ninja. When she answers him to die slowly with a lot of pain he says he is under orders to do it quickly so he can't fulfill her request. And all this portrayed by the same man who played the last Emperor of China. Good god,and this is only in the first ten minutes. Christopher Lambert is a witness to this killing and has seen John Lone's face. These super skilled ninja's failed to kill him off and they chase him. Lambert gets help from a samurai but only to use him as bait. Now the most ridiculous thing is that everything is taken so seriously. But how could you. It is basically one silly scene to another. Lambert fans will be disappointed since he has more of a supporting role and only comes into action a couple of times.Do yourself a favor and forget about this movie!

Christopher Lambert is a foreigner in Japan who gets caught up in a secret world of ninja cults and samurai warriors.... The Hunted is full of Japanese clichés - but that gives it its charm - the film *likes* Japan and enjoys sticking in such quintessentially Japanese scenery like castles, pachinko parlours, robotic toilets, the bullet train, taiko drummers (the famous drumming group Kodo appear), wooden bridges over rivers, paper screen doors, swordmakers, and of course ninja and samurai.Lambert is charming throughout, his encounter with a mysterious lady in a nightclub is a sexy cliché, but Lambert's character is always likable and decent, and not stereotypically macho - he has to cower in a corner in some of the scenes where ninjas attack (although to be fair he was injured...) When Lambert manages to escape the first wave of (bloody) ninja attacks he goes to an island full of samurai who are dedicated to wiping out the evil ninja cult. In some ways it becomes a bit like The Last Samurai at this point, as Lambert's fish out of water has to learn how to handle a katana and bonds with a swordsmith.It is silly, the dialogue is often weak, but it has some nice imagery of Japan, some brutal swordplay, and successfully keeps the film pacy and ... well.. cool. Ninjas are cool. Having said that, it is low budget, the dialogue is often rubbish: (Cop: 'There are no ninjas in modern Japan!' {gets shot with arrow, dying} 'Looks like I was wrong! Lambert: 'Looks like?') Ho ho ho.