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Hunter's Blood (1986) N
Bunch of big city dudes go deer hunting. After actively trying to get under the skin of local rednecks they finally meet degenerate poachers who are willing to test their mettle. What follows is not-so-epic battle between two groups of idiots.
Like majority of these films Hunter's Blood also spends the first half building its characters. In this case the result is awkward and clumsy. Every character and every line of dialogue is so desperately trying to enforce its message that I can't help but think that either the writer assumed his audience to be stupid or he's stupid himself. First 40-50 minutes are just awful cinema and being a B-movie is no excuse because writing isn't expensive.
After horrible foundations are laid the more action oriented second half isn't as bad. Writing is still bad, the music during the forest chases is terrible and acting doesn't improve but at least it tries to be a proper action thriller. I also like the 80s attitude where (generally) the heroes respond with reasonable force to life threating situation (i.e. kill the threat).
With that script Hunter's Blood never really had a chance. Otherwise it's technically passable, even has couple of decent actors and OK effects. As a whole it's bad but with better characters and dialogue it could have been mediocre.
Bunch of big city dudes go deer hunting. After actively trying to get under the skin of local rednecks they finally meet degenerate poachers who are willing to test their mettle. What follows is not-so-epic battle between two groups of idiots.
Like majority of these films Hunter's Blood also spends the first half building its characters. In this case the result is awkward and clumsy. Every character and every line of dialogue is so desperately trying to enforce its message that I can't help but think that either the writer assumed his audience to be stupid or he's stupid himself. First 40-50 minutes are just awful cinema and being a B-movie is no excuse because writing isn't expensive.
After horrible foundations are laid the more action oriented second half isn't as bad. Writing is still bad, the music during the forest chases is terrible and acting doesn't improve but at least it tries to be a proper action thriller. I also like the 80s attitude where (generally) the heroes respond with reasonable force to life threating situation (i.e. kill the threat).
With that script Hunter's Blood never really had a chance. Otherwise it's technically passable, even has couple of decent actors and OK effects. As a whole it's bad but with better characters and dialogue it could have been mediocre.