The Hunters (2013)

The Hunters did have good potential. The cast was decent, and the basic story could have been really interesting if executed well and with nice ideas, regardless of how original or not it is. The big problem however with The Hunters is how it had all this potential, and didn't do anything with any of it.It has a couple of things that it did do right. The scenery is very nice and exotic. Michelle Forbes brings command and winning energy to her role, the only person in the cast to scrape by with any kind of dignity.On the other hand, aside from the scenery it does agreed look like it was intended to be a very low-budget TV pilot, and it also feels it. It's drably shot and choppily edited in the action, while the special effects looked unfinished, props were sparse or inappropriate (a lot of the weapons in the action come out of nowhere) and costumes failed to give a sense of time and place. The rest of the acting, despite the talent is poor, especially with the annoyingly amateur performances from the children, while Victor Garber has seldom been more wooden. The movie is flatly directed, generically scored and the action suffers from choppy editing, pedestrian and far from fun or suspenseful choreography and unmotivated performing of it.The script and story are the biggest failures with The Hunters. The script is paper-thin, and some of the one-liners from particularly Tripp are out of place and irritate more than they amuse. The story structurally is every bit as thin with some very dull pacing as a result of trying to stretch out the running time, and even worse it is disjointed from trying to take on too many elements and doing little with any of them ( especially with the fairy-tale elements). There's no tension, suspense or fun as a result of playing the adventure and suspense too safe and by-the-numbers, which makes the adventure parts as far from thrilling and entertaining as you could go. The characters are stereotypically cardboard, and very hard to care or root for.All in all, a dull, disjointed mess apart from the scenery and Forbes. 2/10 Bethany Cox

this is fun to watch if you like adventure movies like "The librarian" and "Indiana Jones", the acting is terrible but it is entertaining nonetheless.I recommend watching "The librarian" instead but if there is nothing else to watch on your play list go ahead and give it a go.like i said before, the acting is terrible and the writing poor. The choice of weapons by the villains is also questionable, Crossbows? and why does Interpol have a terrible German accent? The children are written extremely poor and snobby. On to another review Stefan

Spoilers Below. But if you want QUALITY, then you won't care.The Hunters is a TREASURE Hunter movie. Imagine Spy Kids, Disney's Snow White & 7 Dwarfs, Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Lara Croft movies, and clichés you would expect from Scary Movie - combine them all an you have "The Hunters".At first the movie was interesting, then it was OK, then it started showing pointless drama, tons of convenient plot points, numerous clichés, and every point where there SHOULD be a booby trap, there isn't a single one! Well there is, but its so damn slow that even your legs were broken & you had to crawl your way out, you'd STILL make out. The bad guys were obvious, the good guys overpowered sidekicks to batman, and they made every puzzle seem so easy that "Legendary Treasure Hunter" feels self-proclaimed than earned (even though its "secret").If you hated Lara Croft, Indiana Jones & the plastic skull, and Spy Kids, then watching this will be torture. Seriously. AVOID.

Our family loved The hunters! I don't understand the other reviews at all?? I don't feel like the movie dragged at all. It kept a good pace and kept our interest. Even my 6 yr old stayed in one spot to watch this. Sounded to me like people not liking wholesome family shows. So what they used crossbows? The bad guys can get a gun from anywhere. Cross bows were a fun added bonus. Things like the show Arrow is out right now so it's not like bows aren't cool right now. I'm hoping for a sequel! It was a great family film for all ages! Not too suspenseful for small kids but suspenseful enough for the Adults to keep interest. The actors are popular enough to warrant a sequel or maybe even a television series. Hint hint! My kids liked that it had the actress from Spy Kids and the actor from True Jackson.