"When I hunt
I hunt to kill."
Stone Cold Steve Austin stars as a US Border Patrol agent on vacation in the Montana mountains in quite a bind as his daughter is held hostage by a group of menacing bank robbers out to find the security bonds stolen by the leader of their heist operation who ran off with the loot leaving them with a bomb set to go off when he calls a number to the phone attached by wires to the C-4. Gil Bellows (the man Ally McBeal had google eyes for) is hell bent on finding Lawson, the old timer who left them to die, heading by van into the Montana mountains. Bellows is a nasty individual with a mean streak and doesn't adhere to any moral code as he shoots an innocent sheriff just to make a point to Austin that he is willing to do whatever it takes to get his hands on what he believes belongs to the group. What happens as Austin, who knows the mountains better than anyone, takes the cold-blooded bunch into the wilderness to find Lawson is standard action genre fare—Austin will break from the pack, with the thought of keeping his daughter alive if at all possible while reducing the numbers in Bellows team.
What I thought was fun about HUNT TO KILL was the use of thick sticks to impale members of Bellows bunch while Austin tosses action hero quips shortly afterward. Austin, of course, is just like Rambo and can fall down the rocky sides of mountains, get stabbed or shot repeatedly, take massive blows from hard objects, and bleed like a stuck pig, yet keep coming—God, I love action movies for these sorts of implausibilities. Bellows finds his inner beast in this movie, no conscience, willing to break any sort of possible negotiation for that bag of bonds—the embodiment of the repellent action movie villain, with a pack of wolves ready to devour his leftovers if they are needed. Because of his rugged looks and blue-collar persona, Stone Cold is believable in a role where the character lives off the land and knows how to make weapons using what nature provides. When he puts on his "war paint" and begins to blend in with his surroundings, I was like, "Give me a hell yeah!" Using his crossbow and sharpened spears, and especially his fists, you get plenty of Stone Cold opening a can of whoopass—particularly when Stone Cold snaps the limbs of Carl when he attempts to rape his daughter (Big no-no). Oh, if you think Stone Cold can take a licking, check out the damage Bellows withstands, such as several slugs to face with a shovel and a fall through wooden pallets from off a scaffold. So HUNT TO KILL has the identifiable traits we are accustomed to when watching dumb, loud action movies. Breathtaking, gorgeous location where all the action transpires( the Vancouver, Canadian wilderness substituting for Montana) is most definitely an asset in the film's favor. Eric Roberts shows up in a (really) small cameo as Austin's former Border Patrol partner who gets it when the two raid a meth lab. Michael Hogan is Lawson, with Gary Daniels as Bellows' British henchman (Jensen), Emilie Ullerup as the stunning Dominika (betrayed by Lawson and left to blow up with the bomb trap)who wants to get even with her former lover, Marie Avgeropoulos as Stone Cold's tough, resilient daughter (Kim), Michael Eklund as computer techie Geary with big mouth and aggressive, antagonistic nature (not to mention, his need to bring out his stun gun to tease Dominika who is more man than he is, the pipsqueak), and Adrian Holmes (as Crab, always screwing up and finally goes one step too far when he tries to rape Kim) round out the cast.
Stone Cold Steve Austin stars as a US Border Patrol agent on vacation in the Montana mountains in quite a bind as his daughter is held hostage by a group of menacing bank robbers out to find the security bonds stolen by the leader of their heist operation who ran off with the loot leaving them with a bomb set to go off when he calls a number to the phone attached by wires to the C-4. Gil Bellows (the man Ally McBeal had google eyes for) is hell bent on finding Lawson, the old timer who left them to die, heading by van into the Montana mountains. Bellows is a nasty individual with a mean streak and doesn't adhere to any moral code as he shoots an innocent sheriff just to make a point to Austin that he is willing to do whatever it takes to get his hands on what he believes belongs to the group. What happens as Austin, who knows the mountains better than anyone, takes the cold-blooded bunch into the wilderness to find Lawson is standard action genre fare—Austin will break from the pack, with the thought of keeping his daughter alive if at all possible while reducing the numbers in Bellows team.
What I thought was fun about HUNT TO KILL was the use of thick sticks to impale members of Bellows bunch while Austin tosses action hero quips shortly afterward. Austin, of course, is just like Rambo and can fall down the rocky sides of mountains, get stabbed or shot repeatedly, take massive blows from hard objects, and bleed like a stuck pig, yet keep coming—God, I love action movies for these sorts of implausibilities. Bellows finds his inner beast in this movie, no conscience, willing to break any sort of possible negotiation for that bag of bonds—the embodiment of the repellent action movie villain, with a pack of wolves ready to devour his leftovers if they are needed. Because of his rugged looks and blue-collar persona, Stone Cold is believable in a role where the character lives off the land and knows how to make weapons using what nature provides. When he puts on his "war paint" and begins to blend in with his surroundings, I was like, "Give me a hell yeah!" Using his crossbow and sharpened spears, and especially his fists, you get plenty of Stone Cold opening a can of whoopass—particularly when Stone Cold snaps the limbs of Carl when he attempts to rape his daughter (Big no-no). Oh, if you think Stone Cold can take a licking, check out the damage Bellows withstands, such as several slugs to face with a shovel and a fall through wooden pallets from off a scaffold. So HUNT TO KILL has the identifiable traits we are accustomed to when watching dumb, loud action movies. Breathtaking, gorgeous location where all the action transpires( the Vancouver, Canadian wilderness substituting for Montana) is most definitely an asset in the film's favor. Eric Roberts shows up in a (really) small cameo as Austin's former Border Patrol partner who gets it when the two raid a meth lab. Michael Hogan is Lawson, with Gary Daniels as Bellows' British henchman (Jensen), Emilie Ullerup as the stunning Dominika (betrayed by Lawson and left to blow up with the bomb trap)who wants to get even with her former lover, Marie Avgeropoulos as Stone Cold's tough, resilient daughter (Kim), Michael Eklund as computer techie Geary with big mouth and aggressive, antagonistic nature (not to mention, his need to bring out his stun gun to tease Dominika who is more man than he is, the pipsqueak), and Adrian Holmes (as Crab, always screwing up and finally goes one step too far when he tries to rape Kim) round out the cast.