WarHunt

Firstly the filming is good, acting ok but it falls badly between being a war film and ghost story.

Its an ok watch but the lack of suspense, scares or anything resembling a plot beyond going to look for a thing, finding it in half an hour or so then a fairly dull half hour not getting back lets it all down.

I was enjoying this movie for a while. It's a cool premise that could have been awesome if executed better. It's visually pleasing (when you can see). But...

This is a low quality movie. The story is a mess. The action scenes are a mess. Especially when the scenes are unbelievably dark. At times 95% of the screen is black. I couldn't see anything. I had no idea what was happening in the climax. I was fully focused on the movie and could not decipher who was who or what they were doing. Did they not preview the movie? (1 viewing, 3/5/2022)

Starts out good. Devolved quickly into a shambled mess. It gets pretty hard to follow this film as the plot pace rushes into overdrive. Could have been a good one. Wasted opportunity.

Right, well as I sat down to watch the 2022 action horror movie "Warhunt", I have to admit that I wasn't really having much hopes or expectations to writers Mauro Borrelli, Reggie Keyohara III and Scott Svatos. Why? Well, the movie had Mickey Rourke brandished on the front of the cover. And he isn't exactly top notch in my book.

However, I found the movie's cover, aside from the incredible melting man - aka Rourke - to actually be an interesting enough cover. And an action horror movie with a World War II theme sounded interesting enough. So of course I opted to watch what director Mauro Borrelli had to offer with "Warhunt".

I will say that "Warhunt" was actually watchable enough. It wasn't a particularly grand or memorable action horror movie, so you're not missing out on a great cinematic experience if you opt not to sit down and watch this movie.

Visually then "Warhunt" was sort of a mixed bag of nuts. The special effects were actually quite nice in the movie, I will say that much, but the night scenes were just so dark that you could hardly see what was going on. I don't really enjoy that in movies, I want to see what is happening, and not just have a dark screen with silhouettes and occasional flickers of light.

The movie's cast was adequate. Robert Knepper definitely added a good amount of punch to the movie with his performance. It is simply beyond my comprehension why someone like Mickey Rourke gets pulled in for movie projects. But hey, at least his name is a familiar one, while his face no longer is, and I suppose a recognizable name lures in the audience.

All in all then "Warhunt" is watchable, but that is basically also all that director Mauro Borrelli managed to do with this movie; make it watchable. It is the type of movie that you will watch once, if you actually get around to that, and then you'll never return to watch it again. The movie's script just doesn't have the contents to support more than a single viewing.

My rating of "Warhunt" lands on a less than mediocre four out of ten stars.

Overall, not a bad little Weird War 2 film, in the same genre as The Bunker, Frankenstein's Army, Ghost of War, Blood Vessel, The Devil's Rock, etc. This one held much promise, but fell down in certain key areas: Most notably, the runtime was too short for the ideas it presented. A slow buildup of the twists and turns and who knew what, would have set the pacing and tone of the film better. The actors (Mickey Rourke aside, he was a bad casting choice here) did their best with what they had, but the film needed to flesh them out more, to give a better sense of their actions and so forth.

The special effects/location work was very well done for a modest film such as this, but there were a few scenes that needed better lighting so we could see what the characters were doing.

Unlike the aforementioned Blood Vessel the characters here were likable and it would have been nice to know just a bit more about them as the movie progressed.

6/10, a nice little surprise for those into Weird War films.