Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

BasicLogic This is just a so-so lukewarm film decorated with some jet fighters, air battles and immoral romance. We also saw the American fighter pilot did the binge drinking almost everyday and still could get up at 5:00AM without hungover, took off and did air battles with their enemy's jet fighters. What made me sick to the guts is the disgusting scenarios about the superior high ranking officer openly chased his subordinate's wife. I wish that I could do that and have the guts to tell some of my friends' wives that they are beautiful and I am in love with her one by one. Is there any moral standard, the least decency among the American pilots? The guy just took the advantage of the other guy's wife since she was not happy with her marriage even she had tried hard to maintain that relationship. But of course, the best way to solve the triangle romance and relationship of such situation was to let the drunk husband hit by the enemy's gun, either exploded in the air or crash to the ground, then the guy in love with his wife could officially take over the newly widowed wife. Yeah, right, but there's still one basic requirement to make this almost adulterous outcome possible: The unhappy wife must be beautiful enough to attract the third person's interest. What a shameless romance that only Hollywood would have made it possible. Do you want me to tell your wife that I'm in love with her?But this scenario is just the first part of this film. I don't know if the 180 degrees twist of the second part of it was what the original novel crafted, or it had been changed by Hollywood movie maker. But one thing I could tell you is this 2nd part is not just a fantasy but also so ridiculous. I don't want to spoil your viewing experience, but I must warn you to activate your basic reasoning ability and the full capacity of your I.Q. I have no intention to damage my logic for this big piece of crap.The other ridiculous stereotype that Hollywood usually do whenever there are Chinese to be used in all of their films: No matter Chinese were used in any background location, the Mandarin they spoke was always Cantonese Mandarin. So it was no exception when the Chinese Communist Party expatriated its Red Army to fight against America in the Korean War, the Red Army soldiers were all speaking Cantonese Mandarin. What a joke!

sol ***SPOILERS*** The tough as nails and cool as a cucumber Robert Mitchum plays the over the hill, at age 40, USAF jet fighter pilot Cleve Saville who gets himself involved with one his squadron pilot's wives. It's when Maj. Saville brought the out on his feet, from having one too many, 1st Let Carl Abbott, Lee Philips, home to his pretty Norwegian wife Kris, May Bitt, that sparks started to fly between the two. Kris has been suffering through her husbands bout with the bottle, with the bottle winning hands down, and the sight of the tall and sure of himself as well as sober Maj Saville was too much of a prize from her to turn down.Still having to be shipped to the Korean War zone Maj. Saville as well as the barley awake 1st Let. Abbott were flown from Koyto Japan to South Korea to fight the good fight against the commies in order to keep the entire Korean peninsular as well as Japan from falling into communists hands. If things weren't hot enough for the two, Maj. Saville & 1st. Let Abbott, in the skies over Korea they got a lot hotter on the ground. With Maj. Saville never missing a chance to get up close and personal with Kris while her husband was struggling to stay awake the the previous days hangover. It's brought out that 1st. Let. Abbott's bizarre behavior steams from him being on 30 combat missions and never having shot down a commie MIG to his credit. This had 1st Let Abbott feel as if he couldn't cut it as a USAF combat pilot as well as a husband to his by now, in him not paying attention to her, very frustrated wife Kris.The movie "The Hunters" is saved by it's breathtaking air to air combat scenes, mostly with model aircraft, that in-spite of their importance there were just too few of them in the film. Were instead overwhelmed with the love triangle between Saville Carl Abbott and his wife Kris that at times becomes almost unbearable to watch. There's a big build up for a showdown in the air between Maj. Saville and the Red Chinese top ace someone called Casey Jones, Leon Lontoc, that takes up over half of the movie. By the time it finally arrives it's so short that if you blinked or went to washroom you'd have missed the entire forgettable event! Were also introduced always half way through the movie to hot shot and hip talking USAF pilot Let. Ed Pell, Robert Wagner, who's cowboy like antics, in trying to be the top USAF ace in the war, ends up causing fellow pilot 1st. Lt. Corona, John Gabriel, to lose his life when Let. Pell broke formation in order to gun down an enemy MIG. Having no use for him at all Maj. Saville punches out Let. Pell at the very first opportunity after he was forced by his superior Col. Dutch Imil, Richard Egan, to have him as his wing man. ***SPOILERS*** It's later in the movie when Let. Pell came to Maj. Saville's rescue in helping him bring the always getting himself into trouble Let. Abbott, who was shot down, back home across enemy lines that the reluctant air force veteran changed his opinion about him. Maj. Saville also seemed to have change his opinion about Kris in leaving her with her on and off drunk husband Let. Abbott and getting back to his true love of flying into combat and gunning down Commie MIG 15's & later 17's jet fighters every chance he can.

vitaleralphlouis Now in DVD, THE HUNTERS is about the US Air Force during the Korean War; more exactly about a love triangle involving two pilots, and one man's wife. This 1957 movie --- like many films made back when Hollywood was patriotic --- featured real life World War II heroes both on screen and behind the cameras.With most of the focus on the in-air combat and personal relationships on the ground, very little is devoted to what the Korean War was all about. That's too bad, but it made sense in 1957 as there were simply no anti-war advocates. I was in school at that time and I can recall absolutely no anti-war talk at school, at home, on the air, or in the press. Any person doing so would have been considered a traitor and rejected on a social level, if not punched around a few times. We all knew the USA and other countries were fighting not just North Korea but Red China and Stalin's Russia; testing our mettle on Korea's soil. I knew many slightly older guys who went into combat. Not one ever said anything against their task, not during the war or after. It was a tough war, certainly compared to Iraq, and America was losing it for month-after-month until the Inchon Invasion turned it around. With nuclear attack a real possibility, and both Russia and China led by sociopaths who murdered millions of their own people, concerns were severe and everyday.I originally saw this at the World Premiere held at Washington's finest ever movie palace, Loew's Capitol, with Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, and the US Air Force Band on stage.

Nazi_Fighter_David North American's F-86 Sabre was the West's premier fighter aircraft during the early 1950s, and superior to any fighter aircraft in the eastern part of the world… The F-86 scored consistent victories over Russian-built MiG fighters during the Korean War…Hollywood didn't make nearly enough movies about it, but in "The Hunters," we have the opportunity to admire this graceful and agile subsonic equipped with more powerful engines and armament systems that ranged from bombs and rockets to machine guns and cannons… Robert Mitchum portrays the big hunter, the 'Iceman.' Maj. Cleve Saville was like death: no feelings, no nerves, no fear… In Japan, on his way to his first posting in Korea, he meets Lt. Carl Abbott (Lee Philips), a young pilot who thinks he is a bad flier… Too much booze was the sign… With 30 missions Abbott failed to get any enemy planes… His wife Chris (May Britt) doesn't know what to do with him… She asks Maj. Saville to look out for him and help him… Saville finds himself falling in love with her, with some response from her… Filling out the story when they finally reach Korea are the first of the jet pilots, Col. Dutch Emil (Richard Egan), and Lt. Ed Pell (Robert Wagner), a rude young guy with big cigars in his face, considered as a 'little stinker who can get MiGs.' Their common enemy is the Chinese ace Casey Jones (Leon Lontoc). His plane has the numbers 7-11 on his fuselage… The MiGs are based in Red China, across the Yalu River