A nice, neat, fairly short movie with some action, some trees, and some footprints. The climax isn't unrealistically... climactic. Which I found refreshing. No big building blows up, no helicopter crashes, no Terminator gets terminated, just a simple knife fight between two guys on top of a dam.
Really I think it would have made a great 'X-Files' episode (probably a two parter). They could have made the AWOL soldier a super soldier, the FBI woman's role could be filled by Mulder and Scully, and Tommy Lee Jones could be the protagonistic character who is only in this one episode but who we get to know during it's course. Since in the movie he trained the crazy army dude, in my 'X-Files' episode he could be ex-military with a guilty conscience. I think I'd have him die at the end, but in doing so take down the super soldier and reveal a little more of the truth to Mulder. But that's just me. Or is it? Yes.
By the way - yes that's right, Tommy Lee Jones is in this one, and he's Bear Gryllsing it up over here with his sweat stained shirt and his stone knife and his jumping off a roof. Isn't he great? I like him. He carries the plot nicely to it's straight-forward conclusion, and the dead eyed assassin plays his part well too. While there is little interesting camerawork and some special effects that are a teeny tiny bit dated (watch him closely as he falls down the waterfall) the movie keeps you're interest and the short time it spends on the screen flies by. The fight scenes, by the way, are excellently fast paced.
The whole wolf thing symbolising both men's animal nature (and on a wider scale all of our desire to live free) is a little clunky, but I accept it. Also, I like the Johnny Cash quotes at the beginning and end of the movie, though the song played during the credits will only ever belong in the world of 'Killing Them Softly' to me.
The Hunted: 37.1