The trailer of The Hunting Party certainly built intrigue for the film. Interesting lines of dialogue, buildings blowing up, a news reporter and his cameraman right there in the fray covering wars from up close, Richard Gere [Images] continuing to age well, Terrence Howard looking earnest...it made me think that this might be an indie gem worth checking out.
That the film was based on an Esquire magazine article was the first piece of information that bothered me about this movie. Mostly because a feature film based upon an article, no matter how long that article actually was, suffers from at least two degrees of separation from the truth. The truth will set you free sometimes, and sometimes it will just give a filmmaking team headaches in the editing room.
Narrated by Duck (Howard), the movie tells the story of television journalist Simon Hunt (Gere) who was the star reporter for his network and had a ringside view of every single war, skirmish or conflict, anywhere in the world (that the network saw fit to cover). Duck served as Hunt's cameraman and together they get to watch as friends, neighbours and countrymen went about killing each other in the name of race or religion or
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