Yes, the hunted are Deplorables, but nowhere near as deplorable as the self-declared elites, who are so exquisitely and punctiliously condescending that they refer to their less-privileged brethren as “ignorami.” Everyone has the courage of their prejudices, nothing is what it seems, and everyone gets things wrong in this scattershot satire that’s distantly related to “Mission: Impossible” and “The Truman Show,” and is to “Parasite” what “The Beverly Hillbillies” was to “Upstairs, Downstairs.” The pleasures wear thin after a while, but they include a pig wearing a shirt; a battle to the death, accompanied by Beethoven, in which the most lethal weapon is a Cuisinart blade; a blue-state dominatrix named Athena (Hilary Swank) and, most impressively, a red-state Terminator named Crystal who is played, formidably well, by Betty Gilpin. When Crystal spins a Tarantino-esque tale about a jackrabbit and a box turtle, you may think “The Hunt” has suddenly turned hypnotic, and you won’t be wrong at all.
The problem will be convincing Americans to go to movie theaters to see it! At least in a week or two wearing masks will be seen as normal rather than an oddity.
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The problem will be convincing Americans to go to movie theaters to see it! At least in a week or two wearing masks will be seen as normal rather than an oddity.