Granted, that may be enough for some viewers, especially since Cavill is often filmed with carefully mussed-up hair, a lumberjack beard, and rolled-up sleeves … even when he’s outdoors … in the winter. But Raymond and the gang don’t give us many reasons to sympathize or even care about either faction, not beyond Cavill and Kingsley’s well-deployed charms. We’re obviously supposed to root for either Marshall or Michael, especially given the over-simplified crime statistics that Michael presents to Marshall: he claims that 80 percent of sex offenders re-offend, though a quick Google suggests otherwise. The former likes to boast that he’s better equipped to stop criminals than Marshall, while the latter antihero is proudly cruel-she sarcastically compliments the “hefty tits” of a nosy diner waitress-and inevitably kidnapped. This leaves viewers stuck between Simon, who withholds information, has committed horrific crimes, and is profoundly desperate throughout and Marshall, who’s always right, but seemingly only to prove that his all-action method is superior to Rachel’s slow, talky approach and Michael and Lara. Just look at his heavily booby-trapped and perilously underlit sex dungeon basement! About a half dozen cops died trying to investigate that death trap! And there may be other women out there! No, while Simon spends much of “Night Hunter” drooling, slurring his speech, and sing-song-ing about “Jingle Bells” and winter games, Marshall and Michael both know the real truth: that Simon is just “f-king with us,” as Marshall says. This proves somewhat difficult since Simon shows signs of “paranoid schizophrenia,” though not enough to get either Marshall or Michael to give Rachel the time she needs to profile him better. So: the cops bag Simon early on in “Night Hunter,” and try to get as much information from him as they can. Listen, you can’t say I didn’t warn you about the unpleasantness. Much of “Night Hunter” is a tug-of-war between three equally unpleasant groups: there’s Simon the local cops out to stop him, represented by level-headed Marshall ( Henry Cavill), patient-to-a-fault profiler Rachel ( Alexandra Daddario), and hothead Commissioner Harper ( Stanley Tucci) and vigilante duo Michael ( Ben Kingsley), a soft-spoken ex-judge, and Lara ( Eliana Jones), a sassy teenager that he uses to catch and then castrate sexual predators. Unfortunately, while being surrounded by unlikable characters might have complicated an otherwise rote ticking clock thriller somewhat, Raymond and his collaborators are a little too eager to displease viewers. The only novel aspect of “Night Hunter” is that, in Raymond’s movie, everybody is antiheroic sometimes, even the guys who are out to avenge Simon’s victims. Raymond’s somewhat uncommon scenario is, at minimum, unique in its obnoxiousness: he boldly goes where everybody, including the makers of " Dirty Harry," “Silence of the Lambs,” and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” have before him in questioning whether or not the American criminal justice system can handle Simon ( Brendan Fletcher), the sort of cartoonishly unsavory character who only seems to exist in movies. #Busty hunter girls serial#“Unnecessary Roughness” is a more apt title for the scuzzy serial killer procedural “Night Hunter.” Writer/director/producer David Raymond over-stresses the moral grey areas one might encounter if one were a police officer and were trying to save the victims of a schizophrenic serial killer who is also a rapist and pedophile, among other things.
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