The hunted 1995 how to#
The hunted 1995 movie#

Lambert has a weird charisma about him, he really isn't that strong of an actor but for some reason he is able to get us to watch him and his screen presence almost always makes his hero generally more interesting than a musclebound action star who projects little sympathy.

The hunted 1995 how to#

Reviewed by fmarkland32 7 / 10 American confrontation.Ĭhristopher Lambert stars as a businessman who witnesses the slaying of a woman (Joan Chen) who he had just slept with, when the ninja (John Lone) is spotted face and all, the ninja stops at nothing to kill Lambert and it's only a rival ninja clan which teaches Lambert how to defend himself and win in a sword fight, Sean Connery of course is nowhere to be found this time. Of course, the same guy did a flick called 'Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death'. Oddly enough, the writer of 'Pretty Woman' wrote and directed this flick, which may explain why my wife liked it, too. If you're in the mood for an fun, entertaining, semi-intelligent B-action flick, I whole-heartedly recommend this one. They also answer that age-old question 'who'd win a fight between a middle-aged ex-athlete with a few months of kendo training and a ninja who's just lost an arm and leg'? (Lamberts's character is a former fencer turned businessman, but that bit's cut out of the home video/DVD version, as is the monologue by Kinjo the ninja, which helps to serve-in part, at least, as an explanation as to why this movie, set in Japan, has almost an entirely Chinese cast). Some of the characters have a bit of complexity, there are a few little plot twists, and the character interaction is often believable. The action sequences are exciting and fairly well-executed (by 1990's b-movie standards, at least), particularly a ninjas vs samuri scene on a Japanese bullet train. The gaijin does not miraculously learn to swing a sword like a samurai in a matter of weeks, months, or ever.

The hunted 1995 movie#

My favorite thing about the movie is the (by martial arts flick standards) realism. The story is solid, Lambert turns in an almost-acceptable performance, and most of the rest of the cast does well. I got conned into watching this by a friend years ago, and will be forever grateful. Most of Christopher Lambert's filmography reads like a guide to B-movie hell. Reviewed by pclem70 7 / 10 For a B-flick, better than you'd think The movie deserves credit for staying true to the formula. Then, I watched it again, and realized it was great. I first went into this movie expecting an action flick, and was disappointed. Lambert is scared and clinging to every edge he can find to live, whilst most of the samurai consider him worthless. There's nothing 'romantic' about his training like, say, Van Damme in kickboxer. Christopher Lambert receives sword training and his enemy is wounded before the final fight, to give Lambert a realistic underdog chance to win. How often have we seen a ninja movie where ninja's or people are killed, without that ever happening? The whole movie involves ploy and strategy, leading to the fight scenes. Cops show up after a murder scene to investigate. The victims aren't generic enemies, they're real people. It's calculated, and it gives a sense of murder and terrorism to it instead of action. Especially the train scene comes to mind, where the ninja's decide to kill everybody in order to leave no witnesses. Sure, there are fights and violence to be found, but they don't give a 'Hollywood' feel to it. They aren't necessarily one and the same. People should realize there is a difference between ninja movies and action movies. Reviewed by bastiaan0740 7 / 10 A ninja movie as it should be The requisite final confrontation is rife with bloody swordplay and spectacular martial-arts action sequences. Finally, recuperating on an island-fortress, he learns swordsmanship, and perhaps, a little about courage, honor, love, and loyalty. Teaming up with a friendly samurai couple, on a two-centuries-old blood-feud with the Ninja, he struggles to survive. As he is now the only man to have seen the face of the cult's warrior-leader and lived, he soon realizes that he is facing a markedly foreshortened life-expectancy. Later, he finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, inadvertently interrupting an assassination by a feared Ninja-cult.

Paul is on a business trips to Nagoya, as a computer-chip executive from New York, when he meets a beautiful and mysterious woman.