Hunting Season

While there is nothing wrong with this movie there is nothing overly right about it either. Its VERY slow to get anywhere and by the time it does its over. The story line is a done to death clinche, acting is ok and most of it looks like its shot in someones backyard. As I said theres nothing really wrong with it if you go in with NO expectations, but if you are looking for a Mel Gibson blockbuster forget it.

Mel Gibson returns with a fatherly role, with healthy principles such as family care and faith, in a lost, corrupt and violent world.

Sofia Hublitz is like a ray of sunshine and is very believable in the role.

Miss Stallone does okay.

Mel has his original "hands" that made him famous.

A film worth seeing.

Ignore the anti Gibson invasion here. It's a decent movie, perhaps low on script and depth but the acting is good, and the tension builds well. It's a no nonsense traditional action movie, and none the worse for that.

For me it's a solid 7/10 plus a one point bonus for the way the simplicity took me back to a better time. Well done Mel, out there in the real world you have far more fans than haters!

I strolled into Hunting Season braced for a bog-standard B-movie to chew through 90 minutes, but blimey, it snuck up and proper hooked me... tight as a snare drum once the gears grind into gear.

Mel Gibson's grizzled survivalist dad isn't reinventing the wheel, mind, but he lends that rumpled charisma to uplift a script that's lean and mean, no faffing about with needless bloat.

The young cast holds their own splendidly, dishing out heartfelt sparks amid the woodland grit, though the chief baddie veers a tad OTT, like a Bond villain gone feral.

That first half simmers deliberately, lulling you before unleashing a blistering 50-minute frenzy of revenge and raw survival - pure escapism that flies by.

A surprising 7/10 for this unpretentious thriller; underrates the charm if you ask me. Fancy a spot of family-fueled firepower? Grab the remote - it's a corker for a cosy night in.

Mel Gibson always seems to deliver movies which are exactly what you expect them to be.

It is a solid action movie with a bit of family in there.

Everything is solid, the acting the characters the script.

While you could argue it is a bit simplistic end of the day it is exactly what is expected and wanted in these sort of movies.