Line #10 Film/NightHunter2019


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2	[[caption-width-right:310:[[{{Tagline}} The hunt is part of the game.]]]]
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4	''Night Hunter'' (titled ''[[MarketBasedTitle Nomis]]'' in international markets) is a Canadian PsychologicalThriller film written and directed by David Raymond. It was first screened in selected film festivals in late 2018, then was released on August 8, 2019 by [=DirecTV=] on video-on-demand. Saban Films released it theatrically on September 6, 2019.
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6	A weathered lieutenant, his police force, and a local vigilante are all caught up in a dangerous scheme involving a recently arrested and troubled man who's linked to years of female abductions and murders.
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8	It stars Creator/HenryCavill as Lieutenant Walter Marshall, Creator/AlexandraDaddario as Rachel Chase, Creator/BenKingsley as Michael Cooper, Creator/StanleyTucci as Commissioner Harper, and Creator/BrendanFletcher as Simon Stulls, with Creator/MinkaKelly, Creator/NathanFillion, and Creator/EmmaTremblay in supporting roles.
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10	Not to be confused with ''Film/NightHunter1996'' or ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter''.
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13	!!''Night Hunter'' contains examples of:
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15	* ActionDad: Marshall is a police lieutenant with a teenage daughter, Faye.
16	* AlasPoorVillain: Simon Stulls is a pathetic, crying wreck of a human who got there due to a profound psychological trauma. The first trailer specifies that he has a SplitPersonality disorder. [[spoiler:His brother on the other hand...]]
17	* AmbiguouslyJewish: A {{flashback}} at the end of the film shows [[spoiler:Cooper]] standing in a synagogue.
18	* AttemptedSuicide: Amy, Simon's mother, tried to kill herself after being raped, but survived and gave birth to her son.
19	* AtomicFBomb: Marshall does this after [[spoiler:finding Cooper dead]].
20	* TheBait: Cooper uses his ward Lara to track down and trap pedophiles.
21	* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[DarkAndTroubledPast Lara]] says that part of the reason she's helping Cooper is because, unlike so many other people in her life, he never tried to have sex with her.
22	* BlackAndNerdy: Glasow, one of Rachel's colleagues, is good at hacking into computers.
23	* ChildByRape: Simon's mother, Amy, was raped and attempted suicide, only to survive and later give birth to him. [[spoiler:And his twin brother]].
24	* ClusterFBomb: Rachel does this while going off on a minor rant against Commissioner Harper over the phone.
25	* ColdOpen: The film opens with a woman being pursued by a masked figure before falling to her death.
26	* DaChief: Commissioner Harper is Marshall's superior.
27	* DrivenToSuicide: The man who sold Simon explosives after finding out he unknowingly aided a criminal.
28	* ExternalCombustion: How [[spoiler:Quinn]] is killed.
29	* FairCop: Marshall, as played by Creator/HenryCavill.
30	* FormerTeenRebel: Marshall implies to Faye that he was one when he was her age.
31	* FreezeFrameBonus: While the police are searching Simon's lair, one can see a label with Simon's name spelled backwards: "Nomis" (the original title of the film).
32	* TheGhost: Rachel's husband, whom Simon states cheats on her.
33	* GoodCopBadCop: Marshall is a little more blunt than Rachel when [[PerpSweating trying to make Simon talk]].
34	* GoodIsNotNice: Marshall works to protect people, but generally has a rather crusty demeanor.
35	* GoodIsNotSoft: Cooper is a VigilanteMan who absolutely doesn't bat an eye at castrating pedophiles, but he genuinely cares for his ward/crimefighting partner Lara.
36	* GroinAttack: Rachel executes one on [[spoiler:Simon's twin]].
37	* HearingVoices: Cooper talks to Marshall about a typical sexual predator's drive as if it was a voice in his head.
38	-->'''Cooper:''' I'm talking about the endless voice in a predator's head that says "Do it! Do it! Do it!"
39	* IHaveYourWife: Glasow's infant daughter is kidnaped, [[spoiler:to force him to release Simon]].
40	* ImprobableInfantSurvival: [[spoiler:The baby survives]].
41	* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Rachel employs this against Simon at one point, taunting him about his late mother and even hitting him.
42	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Marshall is rather [[TheStoic stoic]] and [[GoodIsNotNice gruff]] and isn't afraid to use brute force against criminals, but shows a softer side every now and then.
43	* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Granted, sexual predation is ''not'' a minor crime, but [[FromBadToWorse there is more behind it]] here.
44	* PaedoHunt: Cooper uses his ward Lara to lure a pedophile in an apartment, knocks him out [[InTheBack on the back of his head]] [[BatterUp with a bat]], handcuffs him to a bed, and castrates him. Then Cooper divides the man's savings between the victims that he abused.
45	* PapaWolf: Cooper towards Lara, his ward/crime-fighting partner.
46	-->'''Cooper:''' ''[after Lara is kidnapped [[spoiler:a second time]]]'' You know I have nothing to lose. You find her. You find my girl unharmed. Or I'm not responsible for what happens next.
47	* PoliceAreUseless:
48	** {{Invoked\|Trope}} by Lara, much to Marshall's apparent frustration.
49	** Also invoked by Simon while addressing a mob outside the police station.
50	* TheProfiler: Rachel works as one.
51	* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Simon has a twin brother.]]
52	* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:Quinn]] dies fairly early in.
53	* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Cooper is shot and killed by Simon's twin brother in the film's climax.]]
54	* SerialRapist: Cooper is on a PaedoHunt, catching a man who apparently abused several young girls.
55	* SeriouslyScruffy: Marshall's unkempt beard and messy hair cement his status as a rough-around-the-edges lieutenant.
56	* SplitPersonality: Simon has a multi-personality disorder. [[spoiler:Except he doesn't, he has a twin]].
57	* SpottingTheThread: Of the FiveSecondForeshadowing variety, Marshall notices that [[spoiler: "Simon's" dominant hand is different, in videos before and after his escape.]] Shortly after that, [[spoiler:we learn he has a twin]].
58	* VigilanteMan: The PaedoHunt that Cooper threw himself into would clearly not be approved by authorities.

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