What a waste of my time!!!

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

The hunters is a steady and mostly enjoyable thriller. I liked some of the acting and I liked the sense of the setting as well. I thought Rolf Lassgard was solid as Erik and Jarmo Makinen was actually a standout in his villainous role. The story line on paper is good and I felt like it was heading in a direction that I really liked but as the film went on I ended up feeling a bit let down. I expected a darker and more brooding tone than was actually delivered. I felt that as it progressed parts of the storyline and acting started to delve into the unbelievable and as a result of this it detracted from the overall quality of the thriller. I feel like the tone wasn't serious enough to coincide with events in the film and at various stages in the film things started to veer towards the ridiculous. The villains were over exaggerated, which turned it from a credible murder story into a story line that escalated too quickly without real substance. Overall I felt a bit disappointed and underwhelmed.

The movie makes brilliant use of one the screenplays cliché:the man who left the small town to become a cop (with a not-so-brilliant career)and comes back to find a brother ,apparently happy to meet him again and a secret (there's a bit of melodrama thrown in a solid thriller for good measure). Leif,the kid brother has a warm manner at first ;you should see him go through his mail ,cause he is looking for a wife :but he then appears rather smug and despising:" they are impressed when they learn I'm part of the Church choir".And as the plot thickens ,his behavior becomes more and more suspect and we finally see him as he is really like :an unscrupulous coward ,who is the principal responsible for a gang rape ,and the death of poor Owe , surrounded by a bunch of hateful poachers .The poacher is rarely an important character in a movie ;in this one,they look more like paramilitaries,it's not even sure some of them realize that hunting might be murder (one of them tries to give himself up:but he won't because he would not be virile) There are enough scenes to satisfy a thriller buff :the place where the poachers hide their big game,and Erik spying on them ;the car in the lake ,which will remind you of "psycho" ;the Russian woman trying to escape;Owe ,going "hunting" with the big boys :this latter scene and many more show an unusual sense of space :the filming on location is impressive .I'm looking forward to watching the sequel to "Jagarna" .

I wanted to love this movie. It initially had everything - from perfect pacing to an assortment of eccentric characters. Cinematically, it's crisp and beautiful, and I enjoyed the opportunity to see some nice Swedish countryside. I like that the protagonist is a regular, plump cop, not some uber-beefed-up Hollywood superstar. The plot itself is reminiscent of such classics as "Straw Dogs" and "Deliverance," yet much more down to earth with a great deal of character development especially between the protagonist and his country-bumpkin brother.However, the last half of the film, especially the ending, left me frustrated. I literally booed at the end because of an unsatisfactory resolution. What could have been the best revenge flick of the '90s slowly becomes a dull, lifeless disappointment. Just when you think the protagonist is about to get down with the bad guys, poof. Nothing. I understand the director's intent. He wanted to make a statement. It just didn't work for me.

Oh my God. *blush blush blush* Rarely was an ostentative definition of a-m-a-t-e-u-r-i-s-m given. This movie is a national Shame.The material, the conception, the setting, it's all quite promising. A thriller with action and good deal of personal drama, all taking place in an exotic environment: the sparsely populated Swedish countryside of the forbidding Wild North. It really could have been something.It's all squandered with incredible ineptitude.Looking to the story into some detail, it's bad enough, but nevermind; the awkward way it's all worked out renders it irrelevant. The events don't f-l-o-w. Due to exceptionally bad baaad baaAAAaad directorship the plot hacks it's way forward like barely adjoining pieces of wood simply added along a row: no nuance allowed here. And all this awful overplay, the consistent destroyer of Swedish movie-making; they can't act so they SCREAM for compensation. And the dialog; a sequence of blatantly stupid l-i-n-e-s read by the "actors" like right out of a manuscript they saw for the first time; and the awkward pauses; and the stiff, unnatural poses and statures. Was it shot directly, with no repetition, no rehearsal and no retaking, engaging some no-paid amateur actors called in the very same morning, while the screenplay was still being scribbled down off the top of some guy's head...? If real people behaved like that, their company would sink through the floor with embarrassment. WHY did capable local stars like Helena Bergström and Rolf Lassgård stoop to this trash. It's inexplicable.