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The Hunter's Prayer
2017 91 min Germany, Spain, United Kingdom, United States of America R 18+
★5.4
Action, Thriller
Director: Jonathan Mostow
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Description
An assassin forges an unlikely partnership with one of his targets: a woman seeking revenge for the murder of her family.
Budget:
$17M
Starring
Sam Worthington
Actor
Odeya Rush
Actor
Allen Leech
Actor
Key opinion
The Hunter's Prayer is widely regarded as a derivative and clichéd action-thriller that fails to elevate its familiar tropes. While some find it passable as low-stakes background entertainment, most critics fault its illogical screenplay, shallow characterizations, and failure to translate the source material effectively.
| Screenplay | The screenplay relies heavily on exhausted genre clichés and suffers from a lack of narrative originality. | |
| Originality | The film fails to provide believable character motivations or meaningful development for its protagonists and antagonists alike. | |
| Acting | Sam Worthington's performance fails to ground the film, with his portrayal of a drug-addicted assassin coming across as unconvincing and lacking dramatic depth. | |
| Adaptation | The adaptation of the source novel is viewed as a significant downgrade, stripping away the depth of the original story in favor of a sterile, nonsensical plot. | |
| Cinematography | While some praise the competent cinematography and technical execution of the action sequences, others dismiss the visuals as gray, bland, and uninspired. |