The Hunting Party

2007 Mystery & Suspense

An emerging journalist (Jesse Eisenberg), an experienced cameraman (Terrence Howard), and a discredited reporter (Richard Gere) find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling out of control when a UN representative mistakes them for a CIA hit squad in a light-hearted thriller inspired by Scott Anderson's popular Esquire article. The Weinstein Company provides stateside distribution for a film written and directed by Richard Shepard (The Matador).

Director: Richard Shepard

Starring: Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Jesse Eisenberg,James Brolin

 30 Reviews

Reviews

  • What makes The Hunting Party an original, gonzo treat is the way that Shepard plants the movie's tone somewhere between hair-trigger investigative danger and the from-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire glee of a Hope/Crosby picture.

    Owen Gleiberman - Entertainment Weekly

    27 April 2013

  • When a movie is a hybrid of this sort, it can be tough to strike just the right tone. Mostly, The Hunting Party manages.

    Claudia Puig - USA Today

    27 April 2013

  • Writer-director Richard Shepard assembles all the elements for a dark suspense comedy only to lose his way in a surfeit of plot mechanics and unlikely behavior.

    Kirk Honeycutt - The Hollywood Reporter

    27 April 2013

  • The title of The Hunting Party doesn't evoke much in particular. “War Correspondents Gone WILD!” would be more like it if the film itself--messy, but fairly stimulating--had more of the scamp in its soul.

    Michael Phillips - The Chicago Tribune

    27 April 2013

  • Genocide is hard to decorate with the trimmings of dark farce. The Hunting Party wants to get at political truths through audaciousness, but it keeps bumping into that problem of taste, only to back down.

    Ty Burr - The Boston Globe

    27 April 2013

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