Release Date:
Friday, July 12, 2002
Ever since Thats not a knife
this is a knife, theres been a severe drought in the classic Australians-are-different-than-Americans comedy. The first of its kind since Paul Hogan made that ill-fated trip to Los Angeles, Collision Course, sadly, doesnt succeed much more than its predecessors.
Hunter is made up of everyones favorite crazy-guy-who-fucks-with-scary-animals, Steve Irwin, as he goes about his usual businesstransplanting crocodiles into safer environments, capturing spiders for study, and grabbing venomous snakes by the tail and pissing them off. These segments play like his television show and arent entirely unamusing. The same cant be said for the rest of the film. A loosely constructed storyline sets the CIA on a mission to recover a missing black box from a fallen U.S. satellitea black box that has found its way into the unsuspecting hands of Irwin and his wife via a crocodile (dont bother to ask). Poor dubbing and even worse acting make the scenes without dangerous Australian wildlife unbearable. Instead of staying with the interesting materialIrwin and his high jinksthe movie becomes a bad action flick. Stick with Animal Planet and a good copy of Mr. Hogans original classic.
Hunter is made up of everyones favorite crazy-guy-who-fucks-with-scary-animals, Steve Irwin, as he goes about his usual businesstransplanting crocodiles into safer environments, capturing spiders for study, and grabbing venomous snakes by the tail and pissing them off. These segments play like his television show and arent entirely unamusing. The same cant be said for the rest of the film. A loosely constructed storyline sets the CIA on a mission to recover a missing black box from a fallen U.S. satellitea black box that has found its way into the unsuspecting hands of Irwin and his wife via a crocodile (dont bother to ask). Poor dubbing and even worse acting make the scenes without dangerous Australian wildlife unbearable. Instead of staying with the interesting materialIrwin and his high jinksthe movie becomes a bad action flick. Stick with Animal Planet and a good copy of Mr. Hogans original classic.