In Night of the Hunted, Camille Rowe plays Alice, who is driving home to her husband after a work conference where she has been carrying on an affair with colleague John (Jeremy Scippio). When John and Alice stop at a gas station in the desert, they find themselves the targets of a sniper (whose accuracy is wildly inconsistent).
Night of the Hunted might have made for a great short movie, but as a full-length feature, it simply doesn't work, the action being repetitive and the script resorting to weak social commentary on every hot topic of the past few years to pad out the runtime. This, coupled with an adulterous protagonist who is hard to root for and who makes very dubious decisions, results in a less than satisfying watch.
At one point in the film, Alice manages to get outside unseen, and instead of escaping into the darkness of the surrounding desert and then heading for the road, she attempts to get to her car that is sat on the very well-lit forecourt. It's stupidity like this that makes us root for the sniper. In the end, Alice supposedly finds redemption by saving a child's life at the cost of her own; I was just relieved that the film was finally over.
Night of the Hunted might have made for a great short movie, but as a full-length feature, it simply doesn't work, the action being repetitive and the script resorting to weak social commentary on every hot topic of the past few years to pad out the runtime. This, coupled with an adulterous protagonist who is hard to root for and who makes very dubious decisions, results in a less than satisfying watch.
At one point in the film, Alice manages to get outside unseen, and instead of escaping into the darkness of the surrounding desert and then heading for the road, she attempts to get to her car that is sat on the very well-lit forecourt. It's stupidity like this that makes us root for the sniper. In the end, Alice supposedly finds redemption by saving a child's life at the cost of her own; I was just relieved that the film was finally over.