Hunt to Kill

Plot synopsis:
Four years ago, border patrol agent Jim Rhodes (Steve Austin) was stationed in Texas. Jim and his partner, his longtime friend Lee Davis (Eric Roberts), are staking out what looks like an empty trailer. As a gift, Lee gives Jim a watch that has a band made from climbing rope. The band can be unraveled and used in case of emergency.
After Jim calls for backup, Jim and Lee decide to go in. What they find is a meth lab that looks abandoned. But two men come up from a door that was built into the trailer's floor, and they open fire, shooting Lee.
Jim kills the two men, and another man opens fire from under the trailer. Jim makes the man come up through the same door the other two came through, and the man sets the trailer on fire. Lee kills the man, and Lee tells Jim to run, just before Lee dies. Reluctantly, Jim leaves Lee behind, running out of the trailer as it explodes because of the highly volatile chemicals used for producing meth.
Now, Jim and his rebellious teenage daughter Kim (Marie Avgeropoulos) are living in the mountains in Lowery, Montana. In Reno, Nevada, a man named Lawson (Michael Hogan) and his crew of thieves have just robbed the Hotel Palacio casino.
Lawson takes the millions of dollars in bearer bonds they stole, and leaves a bomb behind in a warehouse to kill the rest of the thieves, who include his psychopathic right-hand man Banks (Gil Bellows).
Banks defuses the bomb, and with the help of a tracking device, Banks thinks he knows exactly where Lawson is going. Banks and the other thieves—Jensen (Gary Daniels), Geary (Michael Eklund), Crab (Adrian Holmes), and Dominika (Emilie Ullerup)—vow to find Lawson and get the bonds back.
In Montana the next day, Kim says she's going to her friend Megan's house to help Megan pack for a trip. Later, Jim gets a call from Sheriff Westlake (Donnelly Rhodes), who says he has Kim in his office for shoplifting. Jim goes to Westlake's office, and finds Banks and his crew there, beating Westlake up.
Banks believes that Lawson is in Montana, and is planning to cross into Canada by foot. Banks wants to find Lawson and get the bonds, and Banks says that Westlake is not being very accommodating. Banks kills Westlake.
Banks wants Jim to guide them through the mountains, to find Lawson. In order to make Jim do it, Banks takes Kim hostage. Banks tells Jim that if Jim screws up in any way, Kim dies.
In the mountains, it's a grueling trek. At one point, Crab tries to rape Kim, and Jim beats Crab up, breaking several of his bones. After that, Jensen fatally shoots Crab. After they find Lawson and the money, and Dominika fatally shoots Lawson, Banks sends Jim plunging off a cliff, and leaves him to die.
Jim survives, and while Banks is forcing Kim to guide him and his crew, Jim carves some sharp points into some branches to make spears out of them, and finds a bag with a crossbow in it. Jim starts hunting Banks and his crew, who have left a wounded Geary behind after Banks beat Geary up for arguing with him.
Jim shoots Geary three times with the compound bow. Geary tells Jim that Banks has taken over Lawson's plan to go into Canada. As Geary begs Jim not to shoot again, Jim shoots an arrow into Geary's chest, killing Geary.
Next, Jim tracks the others down and confronts Jensen, who is a martial arts expert. Jim ends the grueling fight by fatally stabbing Jensen with a broken tree branch.
Banks wonders where Jensen is at, and Banks is feeling uneasy. Dominika, who is using a rope to hold on to Kim so she does not get away, tells Banks that they have to keep moving. Jim tracks them down, and throws one of the wooden spears he carved. Banks jumps out of the way, and the spear hits Dominika, killing her. That infuriates Banks.
Kim tries to escape, but Banks doesn't let her. Taking Kim with him, Banks finds an outpost where there are three Canadian cops, and three ATVs. Banks kills the three cops, punches Kim and knocks her down, and then takes off on one of the ATVs. Jim finds Kim, and he tells her to take one of the remaining two ATVs and go for help while Jim goes after Banks with the other one.
Jim chases Banks down, and they fight. Jim chases Banks down a hill and into what looks like an abandoned factory. Banks even fires a flare gun at Jim. They try to hit each other with shovels. Banks hits Jim a couple of times, and then Jim beats Banks up and hits Banks in the face with a shovel, knocking Banks down.
Jim thinks it's over, but Banks gets back up and tries to shove Jim through the nearby catwalk's guard rail. Jim turns the tables, and shoves Banks down onto the pile of wooden skids below.
Jim, taking the bonds with him so he can return them, goes outside and sees Kim, who says she couldn't leave him. Banks stumbles outside, and he says "Did you think you could take my money?" Jim tells Kim to get back, and Jim gets on one of the ATVs. Banks says "You can't kill me!"
Jim says "When I hunt, I hunt to kill." And then Jim floors it, and rams the ATV right into Banks, pinning Banks up against a wall just inside the building, and gas is leaking from the ATV. Jim starts walking away. Again, Banks says "You can't kill me!" Kim urges Jim to kill Banks for what he's done. Jim fires the flare gun at the ATV, causing an explosion that kills Banks.
Jim and Kim are glad they've survived, but they know they have a long walk home.

Tags: suspenseful, murder, violence, cult, good versus evil, revenge

Review:
Starring the only two known 'actors' Steve Austin and Eric Roberts (who has stumbled along on his acting career, never approaching his more famous sister Julia's prominence), Hunt to Kill starts out with a familiar formula: Two cop (southern border guard?) buddies, the two already mentioned, staking out a trailer in the desert.
The trailer is full of hidden bad guys and everything blows up in magnificent fashion, leaving only Steve Austin knocked flat but alive.Next thing we know it's four years later and Austin has transformed into some sort of Rambo-like master of the forest and now he's in the Pacific Northwest.
They kidnap Austin, actually kidnapping his newly appeared incredibly stupid daughter to force his cooperation in order that he should lead them through the forest to their fellow bad guy who has stolen their stolen bonds (don't ask) and taken off with a guide to sneak into Canada through the forest...
I had a great laugh over the fact that the watch-band rope once unravelled, became a half inch line of a good couple hundred feet in length.Of course the bad guys betray him, grab the McGuffin, cut the rope so that Austin falls off the cliff, and leave him for dead.
When you come into a film called 'hunt to kill' with Steve Austin as the main character, I highly doubt you're going in expecting a film with some Al Pacino style acting, the action equivalent script of The Shawshank Redemption and the cinematography of Lord of the Rings.
It's not perfectly shot but I've seen so much worse.I'm not going to go into the story, it's a basic run of the mill good guy/good guy's family gets caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, stuff happens.On one note, I hated the character played by "Marie Avgeropoulos".
We open up with a scene, where Jim Rhodes (Steve Austin) from the Mexican border patrol police, just days before moving up North to the Canadian side, loses his partner Lee Davis (Eric Roberts) in a bust gone awry.
From incredulous scene to abysmally moronic scene we wander with the plot into the US-Canadian forest areas, where Steve Austin ultimately goes postal.Jim Rhodes himself, however likable he may be, fails to ignite a strong lead, instead falls flat due to lack of proper exposure to his actions and reactions.
Yes, they stole money, but you got the feeling that the punishment far outdid the actual crime and you honestly start thinking that Rhodes should be imprisoned for his wanton vigilantism.On the plus side the movie gives a good dosage of laughs thanks to some sixty-feet watch-rope (watch it to believe it), goodies like composite bows hanging randomly on a tree, appallingly hilarious one-liners and an end scene to die laughing for (when finally Rhodes declares that he hunts to kill!).
Verily I say unto thee....HUNT TO KILL is one helluva movie and is a welcome addition to what we must hope will be a glut of new DTV action movies thanks to the worldwide success of that glorious hymn to masculine values THE EXPENDABLES.In fact HUNT TO KILL boasts three alumni from the cast of THE EXPENDABLES and they are star Stve Austin,British kick-boxing legend Gary Daniels and Eric Roberts in an early cameo.
Austin plays a forest dwelling Border patrol officer who is cajoled into guiding a quartet of jewel thieves through the woods in order to catch up with the guy who stole their jewels in the aftermath of a heist.Austin has little choice as his attractive teenage daughter is also brought along as a hostage.Watching tough as hell Austin turn the tables on his captors makes for a fantastic 90 + minutes of well handled in your face action with none of the many fights and stunts spoilt by the dreaded "shakycam" which has ruined so many recent action films including the last disgracefully poor Bond movie.This is action cinema as it should be filmed and the brutal fight between Austin and Daniels will rate highly with fans of kick-butt mano-a-mano slugfests like me.Every punch and kick is clearly delineated and edited to maximum effect.HUNT TO KILL is glorious stuff for any male out there who is not ashamed of having cojones and gets a 10 rating from the Bapster who is leaping with joy at the way the career Gary Daniels is gaining in exposure now that he is older and getting some great bad guy roles that he performs with aplomb and Austin commands the screen as ever.Great stuff..
Some genius producer corralled the villains (Steve Austin, Eric Roberts and Gary Daniels) from Stallone's THE EXPENDABLES and put them in a cheap-o film.
Jim Rhodes (Austin) is a border patrol agent who is forced (via the hostage daughter routine) to lead a gang on an excursion near the Canadian border.
This is the first "Stone Cold" Steve Austin film I've seen and he is surprisingly personality deprived (surprising because of his popular wrestling persona).
Starring Steve Austin, Gary Daniels and Eric Roberts, the main villains in "The Expendables", here's another action flick for you.
Unless you are a deeply dedicated fan of one of the "stars" in this film, you will, like me, be sorely disappointed, I'm sure.The flick fails on every score, from the dull cinematography, to the wooden stilted acting and posing, to the amateur dialogues, to the hapless direction and silly music choices.After reading a few reviews on this site, I thought I'd be in for an action treat, at least a clever thriller movie, but I was let down dreadfully.Well, I paid only a couple dollars for this at a charity shop, so I don't have any regrets, apart from my time wasted trying to watch it!.
This is a bonkers Steve Austin action film which starts off promisingly and turns to dumb and dumber as characters start doing illogical things.Steve Austin and Eric Roberts are border guards but Roberts is only in for a few minutes before he is killed off and we move on four years later as Austin lives a Rambo like existence in the mountains near the Canadian border.A group of bad guys who have been double crossed are out to get their prey and the loot and to do this they break into the Sheriff's office, kill him and then kidnap Austin's daughter.
Good job Austin dropped by as he leads the gang into the mountain.The trouble is the gang are a bickering sort, one of them even hits another one in order to rape Austin's daughter.Gil Bellows the gang leader enjoys himself doing a Jack Nicholson impression playing the bad guy.
Stone cold definitely was the star in the movie and this is the only reason that anybody should watch it moreover location was good too, cinematography was no bad at all.
Former pro-wrestler "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and martial arts star Gary Daniels are appearing together in HUNT TO KILL.Steve Austin stars as U.S. Border Patrol agent Jim Rhodes, a tough divorcée mourning the loss of his murdered partner while struggling to raise his rebellious daughter in the mountains of Montana.
HUNT TO KILL is a routine action vehicle for wrestler-turned-actor Steve Austin, who plays the usual unstoppable hulking hero type in this story about a gang of bank robbers who abscond to the forests to make their escape by crossing the border into Canada.
Along the way they pick up Austin's daughter, forcing him in turn to become their guide under the threat of violence.What follows is almost a scene by scene rip-off of Stallone's CLIFFHANGER, made on a much lower budget of course and without much of the finesse.
It's certainly more entertaining than some of the rubbishy vehicles that director Keoni Waxman has made for Steven Seagal.The film has plenty of faults, with poor character motivations and a dearth of originality in the screenplay (I was surprised when Austin fell down the cliff-face for a second time), not to mention tons of unbelievable stuff with the star shrugging off bullet hits and the like.
But there's at least one decent fight scene (featuring the great, under-utilised Gary Daniels), a fun hammy performance from chief bad guy Gil Bellowes, a cameo from Eric Roberts, and a pacing that's fast enough for you to generally ignore the various problems..
The production values are pretty good, the British Columbia locations the movie shot at are attractive to the eye, and Steve Austin shows he can play a tough and charismatic protagonist.
Stone Cold Steve Austin is absolutely awesome in this movie.
This film about a U.S Border Patrol agent called Jim Rhodes (played by Stone Cold Steve Austin) who is struggling to raise his rebellious daughter in the mountains of Montana, has to face very severe problems when a crew of malicious fugitives takes him and his daughter hostage.
These malicious fugitives are trying to take his daughter Kim (played by Marie Avergopoulous) and Jim Rhodes has to struggle to survive by killing these malicious fugitives lead by the very malicious fugitive Banks (played by Gil Belows) and for him to also kill Banks and rescue his daughter Kim. The close bond and love between father Jim Rhodes and daughter Kim Rhodes is absolutely brilliant and the acting by Stone Cold Steve Austin and Marie Avgeropoulous is absolutely brilliant.
I absolutely loved watching this film and was amazed by Stone Cold Steve Austin because he was absolutely awesome in this film.
Crap parts of this movie as well the above- no bank robbery.I can understand why Lawson doesn't drive across the border- what one border notices him as possibly wanted for other crimes and he's stuffed.Criminals don't usually intentionally go to police stations for any reason- instant draw attention to yourself- one minute after they left country police dispatcher and then a major manhunt- What the criminals couldn't find a real guide from a pub.
i have seen stone cold Steve Austin in the wrestling but first time I've seen him in the leading role of a big budget holly wood movie blockbuster film title.
Stone Cold Steve Austin is the star in this, he cannot act whatsoever however he gets points just for being cool as he is!
Steve Austin is an ex border patrol officer who after his partner is killed (Eric Roberts) he spends his life raising his attitude prone daughter in the mountains.
I rented this after reading the reviews here - and all I can say is those that gave this more than 2 stars have WAY lower standards for entertainment than I do.The lead role - played by Steve Austin had all the charisma of the rocks he found himself (repeatedly) climbing.
Trouble is the bad guys have Steve Austins daughter too.
So he climbs down this cliff - gets the money bag and climbs back up - and expects the bad guys (who all have guns and have already killed a number of people) to let his daughter go....which they don't...and he is surprised.
He is a major action movie star and he should be getting better roles.
I think the story is too repetitive and kind of long but if you like Steve Austin, you definitely have to watch it..
Sure, the story reads like a Silvester Stallone movie and even though I think he is not a good actor, he is definitely a million miles better.The acting is SUPER wooden, VERY unnatural.
I don't expect much from an "action" flick starring Steve Austen, but this managed to tick all the bad film boxes.Poor script, poor acting and terrible direction, but worst of all was the plot, if it's not an insult to plots to call it that.
This is a film with action!!!...it has a story?....it has actors that do the gym and show you how fit they are!!!...they look mean....they look right into the camera lens...there is also some comedy...some nice shots of the countryside...even some "sex" to a small degree thanks to Dominika (Emilie Ullerup)...but i have to be honest, the guy that made this film must think the punters that are going to the flicks to see this, or at worse pay good money to buy the DVD version is a joker in the first degree...a very slow and predictable start...watch carefully as you see the main man Jim Rhodes (Steve Austin) is given a wrist watch, "it will help you out one day"...so to insult us viewers we see him use this strap to abseil down a 150' rock face...and by the time he is at the bottom its a climbing rope...come on we are not stupid....then muscle man Austin falls down another rock face....only to climb back up with no significant injuries...i never did understand why the double-crossing bad boy Lawson (Michael Hogan) went on foot into the wood...he has a vehicle....then he throws the stash away down the cliff....for all to see....so to sum up...it is a "B" movie which has some action but a weak story line that ends up very predictable...Banks (Gill Bellows)gets run over...don't waste you cash...go buy a burger...it wont leave a bad taste in your mouth afterwards....
Steve Austin stars as U.S. Border Patrol agent Jim Rhodes, a tough divorce mourning the loss of his murdered partner while struggling to raise his rebellious daughter in the mountains of Montana.
Is there any wounded animal more dangerous than a lawman left for dead great film to watch and the film its got a great story line and a lot of action to and really acted great to bye all the cast of the film bye steve Austin and the rest you all should watch it and it its 10 out of 10 for me and I would love to see a number 2 with me in it hahaha.
I can watch an action movie with some stupidity and still enjoy it but this one is ridiculous.Come one, the hero finds a cross-bow, but you know, just discards it to fight the toughest bad guy bare-handed (please, find a better reason to have this scene).
Hunt To Kill was 100 times better than Stone Cold's previous movie (The Stranger).
Director Keoni Waxman did a decent job.Steve Austin plays Jim Rhodes, who is a border patrol agent.
The film begins with partners Steve Austin and Eric Roberts about to take down a crystal meth lab.
Daniels because they were on the same side in THE EXPENDABLES and now in HUNT TO KILL, they are enemies.FFWD >> Austin catches up to Banks and Dominika (last 2 villains left).
But once Steve Austin starts hunting, the movie picks up the pace!!
Sadly, that doesn't mean that said movie is going to be any good, such as "Hunt to Kill", starring former professional wrestler Steve Austin.Jim Rhodes (Austin) is a former border agent mourning the loss of his partner Lee Davis (Eric Roberts, whose something of a guardian angel for those of us that frequent Direct to DVD movies) and having to raise his rebellious daughter Kim (Marie Avgeropoulos) in the Montana mountains.
Well, Banks screws Jim over, and you can guess where that leads...If "Hunt to Kill" has anything going for it, it's the over the top performance from Bellows and the third act.
Hell, the best one, and the main reason this isn't getting less than four stars, is because of Jim saying near the end "When I hunt, I hunt to kill!" It's one of the few moments in which the movie doesn't take itself too seriously, and decides to play it up.
It also doesn't help that the whole thing feels like it was written by a High School drop out, with characters making dumber than usual decisions (people yelling just so Rhodes can kill them with a crossbow, villains that spend most of their time fighting amongst each other, the daughter not escaping when she has so many clear opportunities to do so) and most of what happens before the third act being boring as sin.
Some bad guys kidnap some people and force them to guide them through some woods.The oddest thing about this movie is that it has two relatively well known names in it - Gil Bellows as the main baddie and wrestler Steve Austin as the goodie.
Stone Cold Steve Austin is in fine form here as he plays a former Border Patrol officer in Texas who loses his partner (Eric Roberts, wasted in a pre-credits cameo) in a bust gone bad.
His somewhat antagonistic relationship with his kid is at least somewhat believable.There are not many familiar faces here, other than Stone Cold, Roberts, Gil Bellows as the main bad guy, action genre icon Gary Daniels, and veteran Donnelly Rhodes as the expendable local Sheriff.
"When I huntI hunt to kill."Stone Cold Steve Austin stars as a US Border Patrol agent on vacation in the Montana mountains in quite a bind as his daughter is held hostage by a group of menacing bank robbers out to find the security bonds stolen by the leader of their heist operation who ran off with the loot leaving them with a bomb set to go off when he calls a number to the phone attached by wires to the C-4.
So HUNT TO KILL has the identifiable traits we are accustomed to when watching dumb, loud action movies.
Now, I'm usually against dumbed down action movies, but this movie is pretty much straight up about what it is.It starts with some expositionary dialog in the beginning about Steve Austin's Character with Eric Roberts as his side kick.
Austin plays a border patrol guard in Texas and his partner gets killed in a Meth lab raid.
Other than the watch with a 50 foot rope wrist band, this really isn't part of the movie as the next thing we know Austin is in Montana living in the woods, chomping on grizzly burgers while his daughter hates him, but we get that information more from the DVD box than we do the script or acting.Meanwhile in Reno, a group of thieves, who are not Mexican drug dealers, steal some unmarked bonds.