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''The Hunted'' is a 2003 action thriller film directed by Creator/WilliamFriedkin, starring Creator/TommyLeeJones and Creator/BenicioDelToro.
In the green woods of Silver Falls, Oregon, Aaron Hallam (del Toro), a trained assassin AWOL from the Special Forces, keeps his own brand of wildlife vigil. After Hallam brutally slays four deer hunters in the area, FBI Special Agent Abby Durrell (Creator/ConnieNielsen) turns to L.T. Bonham (Jones) as the one man who may be able to stop him.
At first Bonham resists the mission. Snug in retirement, he's closed off to his past, the years he spent in the Special Forces training soldiers to become skilled murderers. But when he realizes that these recent slaying is the work of a man he trained, he feels obligated to stop him. Accepting the assignment under the condition that he works alone, Bonham enters the woods, unarmed--plagued by memories of his best student and riddled with guilt for not responding to Hallam's tortured letters to him as he began to slip over the edge of sanity. Furious as he is with his former mentor for ignoring his pleas for help, Hallam knows that he and Bonham share a tragic bond that is unbreakable. And, even as they go into their final combat against each other, neither can say with certainty who is the hunted and who is the hunter.
Not to be confused with [[Film/TheHunted1995 the 1995 movie of the same name]].
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!!''The Hunted'' contains examples of:
* AFatherToHisMen: Played with. Those trained by L.T. do see him as a father figure. He ''does'' return the feeling (having kept all of Hallam's letters to him speaking of his difficulties) but finds himself failing the "Father's Dilemma": how to tell your child "I don't know the answer".
* AffablyEvil: Hallam.
%%* AlasPoorVillain
* AttackItsWeakPoint: A rock knife has a distinctive weak point, it's brittle and prone to break at the handle. [[spoiler: Something Hallam takes advantage of in his fight with Bonham.]]
* BadassGrandpa: L.T. Bonham
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The details are fictional, but the central premise -- a soldier who cracked and needed to be tracked down by the expert who trained him -- was confirmed by Tom Brown, Jr., the film's consultant.
-->The story line is fabricated, but parts happened in my life. A guy I trained went bad and I had to track him down and that is the toughest because when you are tracking someone who knows your skills you start playing a deadly chess game.
* BeardOfSorrow: L.T.
* BookEnds: A stanza of "Music/Highway61Revisited" is narrated by Music/JohnnyCash at the beginning and at the end of the movie.
--> [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0x2iwK0BKM God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son".]]
* ChekhovsGun: There are extended sequences where Bonham teaches Hallam how to forge and knap knives. Just before the climactic fight, Hallam forges a steel knife and Bonham cooperates by chipping out a flint one at the same time in preparation for the duel.
* ChekhovsSkill: Their tracking and killing skills.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Hallam served with Delta Force, but during a training flash back to L. T.'s class, ALL US elites (Rangers, SEALS, Green Berets, and Marines) show up.
* GrimUpNorth: L.T. had retired to live in the wilderness up in British Columbia.
* AHandfulForAnEye: Hallam uses his own blood to temporarily blind L.T.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: It is implied that the government is after Hallam because he's cracking and has become a threat to national security.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Hallam.
* IneffectualLoner: Bonham.
* KnifeNut: "Ode to Knife Nuts" -- The Movie.
* KnifeFight: All over the place, including the climax.
* LargeHam: Hallam. Benicio del Toro is clearly enjoying it.
* MeaningfulEcho: The same "Highway 61 Revisited" stanza referenced in BookEnds.
* NoodleIncident: Played straight as Hallam can name all the covert black ops he'd been sent on by codename.
* PrivateMilitaryContractor: L.T. wasn't actually in the military, because his father didn't want his son going through the same horrors he had and pulled every string possible to prevent L.T. from serving. L.T. ended up training soldiers how to kill as a contractor, though.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: ZigZaggingTrope.
** To quote Roger Ebert's [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-hunted-2003 review]]:
--->We've seen so many fancy high-tech computer-assisted fight scenes in recent movies that we assume the fighters can fly. They live in a world of gravity-free speed-up. Not so Friedkin's characters. Their fight is gravity-based. Their arms and legs are heavy. Their blows land solidly, with pain on both sides. They gasp and grunt with effort. They can be awkward and desperate. They both know the techniques of hand-to-hand combat, but in real life, it isn't scripted, and you know what? It isn't so easy. We are involved in the immediate, exhausting, draining physical work of fighting.
** On the other hand Tom Brown, Jr., the [[http://www.trackertrail.com/publications/thehunted/tbj.html primary consultant]] on the film is a bit ashamed of it despite this.
--->...the bloody knife fight at the end -- no way it would last 4 minutes, any of those wounds are lethal.
* RetiredBadass: L.T.
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Both Hallam and Bonham.
* ShellShockedVeteran: ''Both'' leads. Hallam is scarred from his years of in-your-face kills, Bonham is scarred from his years of ''teaching'' soldiers to make in-your-face kills.
* TakesOneToKillOne: Lampshaded.
-->'''Bonham''': I made him what he is, I can stop him.
* ThatDidntHappen: Hallam's work. Lampshaded by Dale Hewitt, an [=SFOD-D=] agent when he tells Van Zandt that for all intents and purposes, Hallam doesn't exist.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The take-down method L.T. teaches in the below-mentioned training montage involves: a slash to the brachial artery, a slash to the throat, a stab to the heart, a slash to each femoral artery, followed by a stab to the lung, just to make absolutely sure the guy is dead. They ''drill'' this so it becomes as natural as zipping up after using the bathroom.
-->Arm, throat, heart, leg, leg, arm, lung.
* TrainingMontage: The flashback that details the origins and relationship between L.T. and Hallam.
* WhatTheHellHero: L.T. Maybe if he wasn't so emotionally detached and helped Hallam when he asked him for his help and advice, Hallam wouldn't have cracked. This is referenced in the final shot of the film, where Bonham throws out dozens of letters from Hallam because he didn't have the answers to the questions he was being asked.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: L.T. suffers motion sickness and is afraid of heights. It does not hamper him in his pursuit of Hallam.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: L.T. and the FBI capture Hallam in the first 20 minutes of the movie; this can't be it, right?
''The Hunted'' is a 2003 action thriller film directed by Creator/WilliamFriedkin, starring Creator/TommyLeeJones and Creator/BenicioDelToro.
In the green woods of Silver Falls, Oregon, Aaron Hallam (del Toro), a trained assassin AWOL from the Special Forces, keeps his own brand of wildlife vigil. After Hallam brutally slays four deer hunters in the area, FBI Special Agent Abby Durrell (Creator/ConnieNielsen) turns to L.T. Bonham (Jones) as the one man who may be able to stop him.
At first Bonham resists the mission. Snug in retirement, he's closed off to his past, the years he spent in the Special Forces training soldiers to become skilled murderers. But when he realizes that these recent slaying is the work of a man he trained, he feels obligated to stop him. Accepting the assignment under the condition that he works alone, Bonham enters the woods, unarmed--plagued by memories of his best student and riddled with guilt for not responding to Hallam's tortured letters to him as he began to slip over the edge of sanity. Furious as he is with his former mentor for ignoring his pleas for help, Hallam knows that he and Bonham share a tragic bond that is unbreakable. And, even as they go into their final combat against each other, neither can say with certainty who is the hunted and who is the hunter.
Not to be confused with [[Film/TheHunted1995 the 1995 movie of the same name]].
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!!''The Hunted'' contains examples of:
* AFatherToHisMen: Played with. Those trained by L.T. do see him as a father figure. He ''does'' return the feeling (having kept all of Hallam's letters to him speaking of his difficulties) but finds himself failing the "Father's Dilemma": how to tell your child "I don't know the answer".
* AffablyEvil: Hallam.
%%* AlasPoorVillain
* AttackItsWeakPoint: A rock knife has a distinctive weak point, it's brittle and prone to break at the handle. [[spoiler: Something Hallam takes advantage of in his fight with Bonham.]]
* BadassGrandpa: L.T. Bonham
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The details are fictional, but the central premise -- a soldier who cracked and needed to be tracked down by the expert who trained him -- was confirmed by Tom Brown, Jr., the film's consultant.
-->The story line is fabricated, but parts happened in my life. A guy I trained went bad and I had to track him down and that is the toughest because when you are tracking someone who knows your skills you start playing a deadly chess game.
* BeardOfSorrow: L.T.
* BookEnds: A stanza of "Music/Highway61Revisited" is narrated by Music/JohnnyCash at the beginning and at the end of the movie.
--> [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0x2iwK0BKM God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son".]]
* ChekhovsGun: There are extended sequences where Bonham teaches Hallam how to forge and knap knives. Just before the climactic fight, Hallam forges a steel knife and Bonham cooperates by chipping out a flint one at the same time in preparation for the duel.
* ChekhovsSkill: Their tracking and killing skills.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Hallam served with Delta Force, but during a training flash back to L. T.'s class, ALL US elites (Rangers, SEALS, Green Berets, and Marines) show up.
* GrimUpNorth: L.T. had retired to live in the wilderness up in British Columbia.
* AHandfulForAnEye: Hallam uses his own blood to temporarily blind L.T.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: It is implied that the government is after Hallam because he's cracking and has become a threat to national security.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Hallam.
* IneffectualLoner: Bonham.
* KnifeNut: "Ode to Knife Nuts" -- The Movie.
* KnifeFight: All over the place, including the climax.
* LargeHam: Hallam. Benicio del Toro is clearly enjoying it.
* MeaningfulEcho: The same "Highway 61 Revisited" stanza referenced in BookEnds.
* NoodleIncident: Played straight as Hallam can name all the covert black ops he'd been sent on by codename.
* PrivateMilitaryContractor: L.T. wasn't actually in the military, because his father didn't want his son going through the same horrors he had and pulled every string possible to prevent L.T. from serving. L.T. ended up training soldiers how to kill as a contractor, though.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: ZigZaggingTrope.
** To quote Roger Ebert's [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-hunted-2003 review]]:
--->We've seen so many fancy high-tech computer-assisted fight scenes in recent movies that we assume the fighters can fly. They live in a world of gravity-free speed-up. Not so Friedkin's characters. Their fight is gravity-based. Their arms and legs are heavy. Their blows land solidly, with pain on both sides. They gasp and grunt with effort. They can be awkward and desperate. They both know the techniques of hand-to-hand combat, but in real life, it isn't scripted, and you know what? It isn't so easy. We are involved in the immediate, exhausting, draining physical work of fighting.
** On the other hand Tom Brown, Jr., the [[http://www.trackertrail.com/publications/thehunted/tbj.html primary consultant]] on the film is a bit ashamed of it despite this.
--->...the bloody knife fight at the end -- no way it would last 4 minutes, any of those wounds are lethal.
* RetiredBadass: L.T.
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Both Hallam and Bonham.
* ShellShockedVeteran: ''Both'' leads. Hallam is scarred from his years of in-your-face kills, Bonham is scarred from his years of ''teaching'' soldiers to make in-your-face kills.
* TakesOneToKillOne: Lampshaded.
-->'''Bonham''': I made him what he is, I can stop him.
* ThatDidntHappen: Hallam's work. Lampshaded by Dale Hewitt, an [=SFOD-D=] agent when he tells Van Zandt that for all intents and purposes, Hallam doesn't exist.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The take-down method L.T. teaches in the below-mentioned training montage involves: a slash to the brachial artery, a slash to the throat, a stab to the heart, a slash to each femoral artery, followed by a stab to the lung, just to make absolutely sure the guy is dead. They ''drill'' this so it becomes as natural as zipping up after using the bathroom.
-->Arm, throat, heart, leg, leg, arm, lung.
* TrainingMontage: The flashback that details the origins and relationship between L.T. and Hallam.
* WhatTheHellHero: L.T. Maybe if he wasn't so emotionally detached and helped Hallam when he asked him for his help and advice, Hallam wouldn't have cracked. This is referenced in the final shot of the film, where Bonham throws out dozens of letters from Hallam because he didn't have the answers to the questions he was being asked.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: L.T. suffers motion sickness and is afraid of heights. It does not hamper him in his pursuit of Hallam.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: L.T. and the FBI capture Hallam in the first 20 minutes of the movie; this can't be it, right?
to:
''The Hunted'' is a 2003 action thriller film directed by Creator/WilliamFriedkin, starring Creator/TommyLeeJones and Creator/BenicioDelToro.
In the green woods of Silver Falls, Oregon, Aaron Hallam (del Toro), a trained assassin AWOL from the Special Forces, keeps his own brand of wildlife vigil. After Hallam brutally slays four deer hunters in the area, FBI Special Agent Abby Durrell (Creator/ConnieNielsen) turns to L.T. Bonham (Jones) as the one man who
At first Bonham resists the mission. Snug in retirement, he's closed off to his past, the years he spent in the Special Forces training soldiers to become skilled murderers. But when he realizes that these recent slaying is the work of a man he trained, he feels obligated to stop him. Accepting the assignment under the condition that he works alone, Bonham enters the woods, unarmed--plagued by memories of his best student and riddled with guilt for not responding to Hallam's tortured letters to him as he began to slip over the edge of sanity. Furious as he is with his former mentor for ignoring his pleas for help, Hallam knows that he and Bonham share a tragic bond that is unbreakable. And, even as they go into their final combat against each other, neither can say with certainty who is the hunted and who is the hunter.
Not to be confused with [[Film/TheHunted1995 the 1995 movie of the same name]].
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!!''The Hunted'' contains examples of:
*
*
%%* AlasPoorVillain
* AttackItsWeakPoint: A rock knife has a distinctive weak point, it's brittle and prone to break at the handle. [[spoiler: Something Hallam takes advantage of in his fight with Bonham.]]
* BadassGrandpa: L.T. Bonham
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The details are fictional, but the central premise -- a soldier who cracked and needed to be tracked down by the expert who trained him -- was confirmed by Tom Brown, Jr., the film's consultant.
-->The story line is fabricated, but parts happened in my life. A guy I trained went bad and I had to track him down and that is the toughest because when
If an internal link led you
* BeardOfSorrow: L.T.
* BookEnds: A stanza of "Music/Highway61Revisited" is narrated by Music/JohnnyCash at the beginning and at the end of the movie.
--> [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0x2iwK0BKM God said
* ChekhovsGun: There are extended sequences where Bonham teaches Hallam how
* ChekhovsSkill: Their tracking and killing skills.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Hallam served with Delta Force, but during a training flash back to L. T.'s class, ALL US elites (Rangers, SEALS, Green Berets, and Marines) show up.
* GrimUpNorth: L.T. had retired to live in the wilderness up in British Columbia.
* AHandfulForAnEye: Hallam uses his own blood to temporarily blind L.T.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: It is implied that the government is after Hallam because he's cracking and has become a threat to national security.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Hallam.
* IneffectualLoner: Bonham.
* KnifeNut: "Ode to Knife Nuts" -- The Movie.
* KnifeFight: All over the place, including the climax.
* LargeHam: Hallam. Benicio del Toro is clearly enjoying it.
* MeaningfulEcho: The same "Highway 61 Revisited" stanza referenced in BookEnds.
* NoodleIncident: Played straight as Hallam can name all the covert black ops he'd been sent on by codename.
* PrivateMilitaryContractor: L.T. wasn't actually in the military, because his father didn't want his son going through the same horrors he had and pulled every string possible to prevent L.T. from serving. L.T. ended up training soldiers how to kill as a contractor, though.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: ZigZaggingTrope.
** To quote Roger Ebert's [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-hunted-2003 review]]:
--->We've seen so many fancy high-tech computer-assisted fight scenes in recent movies that we assume the fighters can fly. They live in a world of gravity-free speed-up. Not so Friedkin's characters. Their fight is gravity-based. Their arms and legs are heavy. Their blows land solidly, with pain on both sides. They gasp and grunt with effort. They can be awkward and desperate. They both know the techniques of hand-to-hand combat, but in real life, it isn't scripted, and you know what? It isn't so easy. We are involved in the immediate, exhausting, draining physical work of fighting.
** On the other hand Tom Brown, Jr., the [[http://www.trackertrail.com/publications/thehunted/tbj.html primary consultant]] on the film is a bit ashamed of it despite this.
--->...the bloody knife fight at the end -- no way it would last 4 minutes, any of those wounds are lethal.
* RetiredBadass: L.T.
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Both Hallam and Bonham.
* ShellShockedVeteran: ''Both'' leads. Hallam is scarred from his years of in-your-face kills, Bonham is scarred from his years of ''teaching'' soldiers to make in-your-face kills.
* TakesOneToKillOne: Lampshaded.
-->'''Bonham''': I made him what he is, I can stop him.
* ThatDidntHappen: Hallam's work. Lampshaded by Dale Hewitt, an [=SFOD-D=] agent when he tells Van Zandt that for all intents and purposes, Hallam doesn't exist.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The take-down method L.T. teaches in the below-mentioned training montage involves: a slash
-->Arm, throat, heart, leg, leg, arm, lung.
* TrainingMontage: The flashback that details the origins and relationship between L.T. and Hallam.
* WhatTheHellHero: L.T. Maybe if he wasn't so emotionally detached and helped Hallam when he asked him for his help and advice, Hallam wouldn't have cracked. This is referenced in the final shot of the film, where Bonham throws out dozens of letters from Hallam because he didn't have the answers to the questions he was being asked.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: L.T. suffers motion sickness and is afraid of heights. It does not hamper him in his pursuit of Hallam.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: L.T. and the FBI capture Hallam in the first 20 minutes of the movie; this can't be it, right?
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The details are fictional, but the central premise -- a soldier who cracked and needed to be tracked down by the expert who trained him -- was confirmed by Tom Brown, Jr., the film's consultant.
-->The story line is fabricated, but parts happened in my life. A guy I trained went bad and I had to track him down and that is the toughest because when you are tracking someone who knows your skills you start playing a deadly chess game.
-->The story line is fabricated, but parts happened in my life. A guy I trained went bad and I had to track him down and that is the toughest because when you are tracking someone who knows your skills you start playing a deadly chess game.
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The take-down method L. T. teaches in the below-mentioned training montage involves: a slash to the brachial artery, a slash to the throat, a stab to the heart, a slash to each femoral artery, followed by a stab to the lung, just to make absolutely sure the guy is dead. They ''drill'' this so it becomes as natural as zipping up after using the bathroom.
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The take-down method L. T. teaches in the below-mentioned training montage involves: a slash to the brachial artery, a slash to the throat, a stab to the heart, a slash to each femoral artery, followed by a stab to the lung, just to make absolutely sure the guy is dead. They ''drill'' this so it becomes as natural as zipping up after using the bathroom.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: A rock knife has a distinctive weak point, it's brittle and prone to break at the handle. [[spoiler: Something Hallam takes advantage of in his fight with Bonham]].
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: A rock knife has a distinctive weak point, it's brittle and prone to break at the handle. [[spoiler: Something Hallam takes advantage of in his fight with Bonham]].Bonham.]]
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* BookEnds: A stanza of Music/Highway61Revisited is narrated by Music/JohnnyCash at the beginning and at the end of the movie.
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* BookEnds: A stanza of Music/Highway61Revisited "Music/Highway61Revisited" is narrated by Music/JohnnyCash at the beginning and at the end of the movie.
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* KnifeFight: All over the place, including the Climax.
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* KnifeFight: All over the place, including the Climax.climax.
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* MeaningfulEcho: The same Highway 61 Revisited stanza referenced in BookEnds.
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* MeaningfulEcho: The same Highway "Highway 61 Revisited Revisited" stanza referenced in BookEnds.
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* RealityIsUnrealistic: ZigZaggingTrope. To quote Roger Ebert's [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-hunted-2003 review]] of Film/TheHunted;
-->"We've seen so many fancy high-tech computer-assisted fight scenes in recent movies that we assume the fighters can fly. They live in a world of gravity-free speed-up. Not so Friedkin's characters. Their fight is gravity-based. Their arms and legs are heavy. Their blows land solidly, with pain on both sides. They gasp and grunt with effort. They can be awkward and desperate. They both know the techniques of hand-to-hand combat, but in real life, it isn't scripted, and you know what? It isn't so easy. We are involved in the immediate, exhausting, draining physical work of fighting."
** On the other hand Tom Brown, Jr., the [[http://www.trackertrail.com/publications/thehunted/tbj.html primary consultant]] on the film is a bit ashamed of it despite this;
-->"...the bloody knife fight at the end -- no way it would last 4 minutes, any of those wounds are lethal."
-->"We've seen so many fancy high-tech computer-assisted fight scenes in recent movies that we assume the fighters can fly. They live in a world of gravity-free speed-up. Not so Friedkin's characters. Their fight is gravity-based. Their arms and legs are heavy. Their blows land solidly, with pain on both sides. They gasp and grunt with effort. They can be awkward and desperate. They both know the techniques of hand-to-hand combat, but in real life, it isn't scripted, and you know what? It isn't so easy. We are involved in the immediate, exhausting, draining physical work of fighting."
** On the other hand Tom Brown, Jr., the [[http://www.trackertrail.com/publications/thehunted/tbj.html primary consultant]] on the film is a bit ashamed of it despite this;
-->"...the bloody knife fight at the end -- no way it would last 4 minutes, any of those wounds are lethal."
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* RealityIsUnrealistic: ZigZaggingTrope. ZigZaggingTrope.
** To quote Roger Ebert's [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-hunted-2003review]] of Film/TheHunted;
-->"We'vereview]]:
--->We've seen so many fancy high-tech computer-assisted fight scenes in recent movies that we assume the fighters can fly. They live in a world of gravity-free speed-up. Not so Friedkin's characters. Their fight is gravity-based. Their arms and legs are heavy. Their blows land solidly, with pain on both sides. They gasp and grunt with effort. They can be awkward and desperate. They both know the techniques of hand-to-hand combat, but in real life, it isn't scripted, and you know what? It isn't so easy. We are involved in the immediate, exhausting, draining physical work offighting."
fighting.
** On the other hand Tom Brown, Jr., the [[http://www.trackertrail.com/publications/thehunted/tbj.html primary consultant]] on the film is a bit ashamed of it despitethis;
-->"...this.
--->...the bloody knife fight at the end -- no way it would last 4 minutes, any of those wounds are lethal."
** To quote Roger Ebert's [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-hunted-2003
-->"We've
--->We've seen so many fancy high-tech computer-assisted fight scenes in recent movies that we assume the fighters can fly. They live in a world of gravity-free speed-up. Not so Friedkin's characters. Their fight is gravity-based. Their arms and legs are heavy. Their blows land solidly, with pain on both sides. They gasp and grunt with effort. They can be awkward and desperate. They both know the techniques of hand-to-hand combat, but in real life, it isn't scripted, and you know what? It isn't so easy. We are involved in the immediate, exhausting, draining physical work of
** On the other hand Tom Brown, Jr., the [[http://www.trackertrail.com/publications/thehunted/tbj.html primary consultant]] on the film is a bit ashamed of it despite
-->"...
--->...the bloody knife fight at the end -- no way it would last 4 minutes, any of those wounds are lethal.
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--> Bonham: I made him what he is, I can stop him.
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The take-down method the L. T. teaches in the below-mentioned training montage involves; a slash to the brachial artery, a slash to the throat, a stab to the heart, a slash to each femoral artery, followed by a stab to the lung, just to make absolutely sure the guy is dead. They ''drill'' this so it becomes as natural as zipping up after using the bathroom.
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The take-down method the L. T. teaches in the below-mentioned training montage involves; involves: a slash to the brachial artery, a slash to the throat, a stab to the heart, a slash to each femoral artery, followed by a stab to the lung, just to make absolutely sure the guy is dead. They ''drill'' this so it becomes as natural as zipping up after using the bathroom.
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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: L.T. and the FBI capture Hallam in the first 20 minutes of the movie, this can't be it, right?
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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: L.T. and the FBI capture Hallam in the first 20 minutes of the movie, movie; this can't be it, right?
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Not to be confused with the 1995 movie of the same name.
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Not to be confused with [[Film/TheHunted1995 the 1995 movie of the same name.
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* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Hallam served with Delta Force, but during a training flash back to LT's class, ALL US elites (Rangers, SEALS, Green Berets, and Marines) show up.
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* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Hallam served with Delta Force, but during a training flash back to LT's L. T.'s class, ALL US elites (Rangers, SEALS, Green Berets, and Marines) show up.
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* NoodleIncident: played straight as Hallam can name all the covert black ops he'd been sent on by codename.
* PrivateMilitaryContractor: LT wasn't actually in the military, because his father didn't want his son going through the same horrors he had and pulled every string possible to prevent LT from serving. LT ended up training soldiers how to kill as a contractor, though.
* PrivateMilitaryContractor: LT wasn't actually in the military, because his father didn't want his son going through the same horrors he had and pulled every string possible to prevent LT from serving. LT ended up training soldiers how to kill as a contractor, though.
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* NoodleIncident: played Played straight as Hallam can name all the covert black ops he'd been sent on by codename.
* PrivateMilitaryContractor:LT L.T. wasn't actually in the military, because his father didn't want his son going through the same horrors he had and pulled every string possible to prevent LT L.T. from serving. LT L.T. ended up training soldiers how to kill as a contractor, though.
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The take-down method the LT L. T. teaches in the below-mentioned training montage involves; a slash to the brachial artery, a slash to the throat, a stab to the heart, a slash to each femoral artery, followed by a stab to the lung, just to make absolutely sure the guy is dead. They ''drill'' this so it becomes as natural as zipping up after using the bathroom.
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: L.T. suffers of motion sickness and is afraid of heights. It does not hamper him in his pursuit of Hallam.
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Not to be confused with the 1995 movie of the same name.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: The rock knife has a distinctive weak point, it's brittle and prone to break at the handle.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: The A rock knife has a distinctive weak point, it's brittle and prone to break at the handle. [[spoiler: Something Hallam takes advantage of in his fight with Bonham]].
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The take-down method the LT teaches in the below-mentioned training montage involves involves; a slash to the brachial artery, a slash to the throat, a stab to the heart, a slash to each femoral artery, followed by a stab to the lung, just to make absolutely sure the guy is dead. They ''drill'' this so it becomes as natural as zipping up after using the bathroom.
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''The Hunted'' is a 2003 film directed by Creator/WilliamFriedkin and starring Creator/TommyLeeJones and Creator/BenicioDelToro.
In the green woods of Silver Falls, Oregon, Aaron Hallam (del Toro), a trained assassin AWOL from the Special Forces, keeps his own brand of wildlife vigil. After Hallam brutally slays four deer hunters in the area, FBI Special Agent Abby Durrell (Connie Nielsen) turns to L.T. Bonham (Jones) as the one man who may be able to stop him.
In the green woods of Silver Falls, Oregon, Aaron Hallam (del Toro), a trained assassin AWOL from the Special Forces, keeps his own brand of wildlife vigil. After Hallam brutally slays four deer hunters in the area, FBI Special Agent Abby Durrell (Connie Nielsen) turns to L.T. Bonham (Jones) as the one man who may be able to stop him.
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''The Hunted'' is a 2003 action thriller film directed by Creator/WilliamFriedkin and Creator/WilliamFriedkin, starring Creator/TommyLeeJones and Creator/BenicioDelToro.
In the green woods of Silver Falls, Oregon, Aaron Hallam (del Toro), a trained assassin AWOL from the Special Forces, keeps his own brand of wildlife vigil. After Hallam brutally slays four deer hunters in the area, FBI Special Agent Abby Durrell(Connie Nielsen) (Creator/ConnieNielsen) turns to L.T. Bonham (Jones) as the one man who may be able to stop him.
In the green woods of Silver Falls, Oregon, Aaron Hallam (del Toro), a trained assassin AWOL from the Special Forces, keeps his own brand of wildlife vigil. After Hallam brutally slays four deer hunters in the area, FBI Special Agent Abby Durrell
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In the green woods of Silver Falls, Oregon, Aaron Hallam, a trained assassin AWOL from the Special Forces, keeps his own brand of wildlife vigil. After Hallam brutally slew four deer hunters in the area, FBI Special Agent Abby Durrell turns to L.T. Bonham-- the one man who may be able to stop him. At first L.T. resists the mission. Snug in retirement, he's closed off to his past, the years he spent in the Special Forces training soldiers to become skilled murderers. But when he realizes that these recent slaying is the work of a man he trained, he feels obligated to stop him. Accepting the assignment under the condition that he works alone, L.T. enters the woods, unarmed--plagued by memories of his best student and riddled with guilt for not responding to Aaron's tortured letters to him as he began to slip over the edge of sanity. Furious as he is with his former mentor for ignoring his pleas for help, Aaron knows that he and L.T. share a tragic bond that is unbreakable. And, even as they go into their final combat against each other, neither can say with certainty who is the hunted and who is the hunter.
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In the green woods of Silver Falls, Oregon, Aaron Hallam, Hallam (del Toro), a trained assassin AWOL from the Special Forces, keeps his own brand of wildlife vigil. After Hallam brutally slew slays four deer hunters in the area, FBI Special Agent Abby Durrell (Connie Nielsen) turns to L.T. Bonham-- Bonham (Jones) as the one man who may be able to stop him. him.
At firstL.T. Bonham resists the mission. Snug in retirement, he's closed off to his past, the years he spent in the Special Forces training soldiers to become skilled murderers. But when he realizes that these recent slaying is the work of a man he trained, he feels obligated to stop him. Accepting the assignment under the condition that he works alone, L.T. Bonham enters the woods, unarmed--plagued by memories of his best student and riddled with guilt for not responding to Aaron's Hallam's tortured letters to him as he began to slip over the edge of sanity. Furious as he is with his former mentor for ignoring his pleas for help, Aaron Hallam knows that he and L.T. Bonham share a tragic bond that is unbreakable. And, even as they go into their final combat against each other, neither can say with certainty who is the hunted and who is the hunter.hunter.
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* BookEnds: A stanza of Music/Highway61Revisited is narrated by JohnnyCash at the beginning and at the end of the movie.
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* RealityIsUnrealistic: ZigZaggingTrope. To quote Roger Ebert's [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-hunted-2003 review]] of Film/TheHunted; "We've seen so many fancy high-tech computer-assisted fight scenes in recent movies that we assume the fighters can fly. They live in a world of gravity-free speed-up. Not so Friedkin's characters. Their fight is gravity-based. Their arms and legs are heavy. Their blows land solidly, with pain on both sides. They gasp and grunt with effort. They can be awkward and desperate. They both know the techniques of hand-to-hand combat, but in real life, it isn't scripted, and you know what? It isn't so easy. We are involved in the immediate, exhausting, draining physical work of fighting."\\
On the other hand Tom Brown, Jr., the [[http://www.trackertrail.com/publications/thehunted/tbj.html primary consultant]] on the film is a bit ashamed of it despite this; "...the bloody knife fight at the end -- no way it would last 4 minutes, any of those wounds are lethal."
On the other hand Tom Brown, Jr., the [[http://www.trackertrail.com/publications/thehunted/tbj.html primary consultant]] on the film is a bit ashamed of it despite this; "...the bloody knife fight at the end -- no way it would last 4 minutes, any of those wounds are lethal."
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* RealityIsUnrealistic: ZigZaggingTrope. To quote Roger Ebert's [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-hunted-2003 review]] of Film/TheHunted; "We've Film/TheHunted;
-->"We've seen so many fancy high-tech computer-assisted fight scenes in recent movies that we assume the fighters can fly. They live in a world of gravity-free speed-up. Not so Friedkin's characters. Their fight is gravity-based. Their arms and legs are heavy. Their blows land solidly, with pain on both sides. They gasp and grunt with effort. They can be awkward and desperate. They both know the techniques of hand-to-hand combat, but in real life, it isn't scripted, and you know what? It isn't so easy. We are involved in the immediate, exhausting, draining physical work of fighting."\\
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**On the other hand Tom Brown, Jr., the [[http://www.trackertrail.com/publications/thehunted/tbj.html primary consultant]] on the film is a bit ashamed of it despitethis; "...this;
-->"...the bloody knife fight at the end -- no way it would last 4 minutes, any of those wounds are lethal."
-->"We've seen so many fancy high-tech computer-assisted fight scenes in recent movies that we assume the fighters can fly. They live in a world of gravity-free speed-up. Not so Friedkin's characters. Their fight is gravity-based. Their arms and legs are heavy. Their blows land solidly, with pain on both sides. They gasp and grunt with effort. They can be awkward and desperate. They both know the techniques of hand-to-hand combat, but in real life, it isn't scripted, and you know what? It isn't so easy. We are involved in the immediate, exhausting, draining physical work of fighting.
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**On the other hand Tom Brown, Jr., the [[http://www.trackertrail.com/publications/thehunted/tbj.html primary consultant]] on the film is a bit ashamed of it despite
-->"...the bloody knife fight at the end -- no way it would last 4 minutes, any of those wounds are lethal."
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* PrivateMilitaryContractor: LT wasn't actually in the military, because his father didn't want his son going through the same horrors he had and pulled every string possible to prevent LT from serving. LT ended up training soldiers how to kill as a contractor, thoughthough.
* RealityIsUnrealistic: ZigZaggingTrope. To quote Roger Ebert's [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-hunted-2003 review]] of Film/TheHunted; "We've seen so many fancy high-tech computer-assisted fight scenes in recent movies that we assume the fighters can fly. They live in a world of gravity-free speed-up. Not so Friedkin's characters. Their fight is gravity-based. Their arms and legs are heavy. Their blows land solidly, with pain on both sides. They gasp and grunt with effort. They can be awkward and desperate. They both know the techniques of hand-to-hand combat, but in real life, it isn't scripted, and you know what? It isn't so easy. We are involved in the immediate, exhausting, draining physical work of fighting."\\
On the other hand Tom Brown, Jr., the [[http://www.trackertrail.com/publications/thehunted/tbj.html primary consultant]] on the film is a bit ashamed of it despite this; "...the bloody knife fight at the end -- no way it would last 4 minutes, any of those wounds are lethal."
* RealityIsUnrealistic: ZigZaggingTrope. To quote Roger Ebert's [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-hunted-2003 review]] of Film/TheHunted; "We've seen so many fancy high-tech computer-assisted fight scenes in recent movies that we assume the fighters can fly. They live in a world of gravity-free speed-up. Not so Friedkin's characters. Their fight is gravity-based. Their arms and legs are heavy. Their blows land solidly, with pain on both sides. They gasp and grunt with effort. They can be awkward and desperate. They both know the techniques of hand-to-hand combat, but in real life, it isn't scripted, and you know what? It isn't so easy. We are involved in the immediate, exhausting, draining physical work of fighting."\\
On the other hand Tom Brown, Jr., the [[http://www.trackertrail.com/publications/thehunted/tbj.html primary consultant]] on the film is a bit ashamed of it despite this; "...the bloody knife fight at the end -- no way it would last 4 minutes, any of those wounds are lethal."
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* AwesomeYetPractical: Hallam improvises a knife using some random metal and a forge he makes from stuff found in the woods. Not to be outdone, his mentor character makes a knife out of a rock.
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* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Knife]]: There are extended sequences where Bonham teaches Hallam how to forge and knap knives. Just before the climactic fight, Hallam forges a steel knife and Bonham cooperates by chipping out a flint one at the same time in preparation for the duel.
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* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Knife]]: ChekhovsGun: There are extended sequences where Bonham teaches Hallam how to forge and knap knives. Just before the climactic fight, Hallam forges a steel knife and Bonham cooperates by chipping out a flint one at the same time in preparation for the duel.
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The take-down method the LT teaches in the below-mentioned training montage involves a stab to the heart, a slash to each femoral artery, followed by a stab to the lung, just to make absolutely sure the guy is dead.
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* BookEnds: A stanza of Highway61Revisited is narrated by JohnnyCash at the beginning and at the end of the movie.
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* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Hallam served with Delta Force whilst, but during a training flash back to LT's class, ALL US elites (Rangers, SEALS, Green Berets, and Marines) show up.
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''The Hunted'' is a 2003 film directed by William Friedkin and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio del Toro.
In the green woods of Silver Falls, Oregon, Aaron Hallam, a trained assassin AWOL from the Special Forces, keeps his own brand of wildlife vigil. After Hallam brutally slew four deer hunters in the area, FBI Special Agent Abby Durrell turns to L.T. Bonham-- the one man who may be able to stop him. At first L.T. resists the mission. Snug in retirement, he's closed off to his past, the years he spent in the Special Forces training soldiers to become skilled murderers. But when he realizes that these recent slaying is the work of a man he trained, he feels obligated to stop him. Accepting the assignment under the condition that he works alone, L.T. enters the woods, unarmed--plagued by memories of his best student and riddled with guilt for not responding to Aaron's tortured letters to him as he began to slip over the edge of sanity. Furious as he is with his former mentor for ignoring his pleas for help, Aaron knows that he and L.T. share a tragic bond that is unbreakable. And, even as they go into their final combat against each other, neither can say with certainty who is the hunted and who is the hunter.
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!!''The Hunted'' contains examples of:
* AFatherToHisMen: Played with. Those trained by L.T. do see him as a father figure. He ''does'' return the feeling (having kept all of Hallam's letters to him speaking of his difficulties) but finds himself failing the "Father's Dilemma": how to tell your child "I don't know the answer".
* AffablyEvil: Hallam.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: The rock knife has a distinctive weak point, it's brittle and prone to break at the handle.
* AwesomeYetPractical: Hallam improvises a knife using some random metal and a forge he makes from stuff found in the woods. Not to be outdone, his mentor character makes a knife out of a rock.
* BadassGrandpa: L.T. Bonham
* BeardOfSorrow: L.T.
* BookEnds: A stanza of Highway 61 Revisited is narrated by JohnnyCash at the beginning and at the end of the movie.
--> [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0x2iwK0BKM God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son".]]
* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Knife]]: There are extended sequences where Bonham teaches Hallam how to forge and knap knives. Just before the climactic fight, Hallam forges a steel knife and Bonham cooperates by chipping out a flint one at the same time in preparation for the duel.
* ChekhovsSkill: Their tracking and killing skills.
* GrimUpNorth: L.T. had retired to live in the wilderness up in British Columbia.
* AHandfulForAnEye: Hallam uses his own blood to temporarily blind L.T.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: It is implied that the government is after Hallam because he's cracking and has become a threat to national security.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Hallam.
* IneffectualLoner: Bonham.
* KnifeNut: "Ode to Knife Nuts" -- The Movie.
* KnifeFight: All over the place, including the Climax.
* LargeHam: Hallam. Benicio del Toro is clearly enjoying it.
* MeaningfulEcho: The same Highway 61 Revisited stanza referenced in BookEnds.
* NoodleIncident: played straight as Hallam can name all the covert black ops he'd been sent on by codename.
* RetiredBadass: L.T.
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Both Hallam and Bonham.
* ShellShockedVeteran: ''Both'' leads. Hallam is scarred from his years of in-your-face kills, Bonham is scarred from his years of ''teaching'' soldiers to make in-your-face kills.
* TakesOneToKillOne: Lampshaded.
--> Bonham: I made him what he is, I can stop him.
* ThatDidntHappen: Hallam's work. Lampshaded by Dale Hewitt, an [=SFOD-D=] agent when he tells Van Zandt that for all intents and purposes, Hallam doesn't exist.
* TrainingMontage: The flashback that details the origins and relationship between L.T. and Hallam.
* WhatTheHellHero: L.T. Maybe if he wasn't so emotionally detached and helped Hallam when he asked him for his help and advice, Hallam wouldn't have cracked. This is referenced in the final shot of the film, where Bonham throws out dozens of letters from Hallam because he didn't have the answers to the questions he was being asked.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: L.T. suffers of motion sickness and is afraid of heights. It does not hamper him in his pursuit of Hallam.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: L.T. and the FBI capture Hallam in the first 20 minutes of the movie, this can't be it, right?
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In the green woods of Silver Falls, Oregon, Aaron Hallam, a trained assassin AWOL from the Special Forces, keeps his own brand of wildlife vigil. After Hallam brutally slew four deer hunters in the area, FBI Special Agent Abby Durrell turns to L.T. Bonham-- the one man who may be able to stop him. At first L.T. resists the mission. Snug in retirement, he's closed off to his past, the years he spent in the Special Forces training soldiers to become skilled murderers. But when he realizes that these recent slaying is the work of a man he trained, he feels obligated to stop him. Accepting the assignment under the condition that he works alone, L.T. enters the woods, unarmed--plagued by memories of his best student and riddled with guilt for not responding to Aaron's tortured letters to him as he began to slip over the edge of sanity. Furious as he is with his former mentor for ignoring his pleas for help, Aaron knows that he and L.T. share a tragic bond that is unbreakable. And, even as they go into their final combat against each other, neither can say with certainty who is the hunted and who is the hunter.
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!!''The Hunted'' contains examples of:
* AFatherToHisMen: Played with. Those trained by L.T. do see him as a father figure. He ''does'' return the feeling (having kept all of Hallam's letters to him speaking of his difficulties) but finds himself failing the "Father's Dilemma": how to tell your child "I don't know the answer".
* AffablyEvil: Hallam.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: The rock knife has a distinctive weak point, it's brittle and prone to break at the handle.
* AwesomeYetPractical: Hallam improvises a knife using some random metal and a forge he makes from stuff found in the woods. Not to be outdone, his mentor character makes a knife out of a rock.
* BadassGrandpa: L.T. Bonham
* BeardOfSorrow: L.T.
* BookEnds: A stanza of Highway 61 Revisited is narrated by JohnnyCash at the beginning and at the end of the movie.
--> [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0x2iwK0BKM God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son".]]
* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Knife]]: There are extended sequences where Bonham teaches Hallam how to forge and knap knives. Just before the climactic fight, Hallam forges a steel knife and Bonham cooperates by chipping out a flint one at the same time in preparation for the duel.
* ChekhovsSkill: Their tracking and killing skills.
* GrimUpNorth: L.T. had retired to live in the wilderness up in British Columbia.
* AHandfulForAnEye: Hallam uses his own blood to temporarily blind L.T.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: It is implied that the government is after Hallam because he's cracking and has become a threat to national security.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Hallam.
* IneffectualLoner: Bonham.
* KnifeNut: "Ode to Knife Nuts" -- The Movie.
* KnifeFight: All over the place, including the Climax.
* LargeHam: Hallam. Benicio del Toro is clearly enjoying it.
* MeaningfulEcho: The same Highway 61 Revisited stanza referenced in BookEnds.
* NoodleIncident: played straight as Hallam can name all the covert black ops he'd been sent on by codename.
* RetiredBadass: L.T.
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Both Hallam and Bonham.
* ShellShockedVeteran: ''Both'' leads. Hallam is scarred from his years of in-your-face kills, Bonham is scarred from his years of ''teaching'' soldiers to make in-your-face kills.
* TakesOneToKillOne: Lampshaded.
--> Bonham: I made him what he is, I can stop him.
* ThatDidntHappen: Hallam's work. Lampshaded by Dale Hewitt, an [=SFOD-D=] agent when he tells Van Zandt that for all intents and purposes, Hallam doesn't exist.
* TrainingMontage: The flashback that details the origins and relationship between L.T. and Hallam.
* WhatTheHellHero: L.T. Maybe if he wasn't so emotionally detached and helped Hallam when he asked him for his help and advice, Hallam wouldn't have cracked. This is referenced in the final shot of the film, where Bonham throws out dozens of letters from Hallam because he didn't have the answers to the questions he was being asked.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: L.T. suffers of motion sickness and is afraid of heights. It does not hamper him in his pursuit of Hallam.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: L.T. and the FBI capture Hallam in the first 20 minutes of the movie, this can't be it, right?
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