The Hunt Review: 8 Ups & 5 Downs

3. The Marketing Is Entirely Wrong

Partly through construction, the marketing for The Hunt set up a film that simply wasn't delivered at the end stage. Thanks to the whole anti-Trump message embedded into it by force even before it came out and the decision to pivot on that controversy to market it (in the wake of its entirely needless ban), you're sort of primed for something way more overtly political and way more grim.

The reality is that this is a black comedy and it's not really seeking to give off a real message (we'll get to that specifically later.) Sure, it doesn't do anything as overt as telling jokes, but it's more like Slither than The Purge.

Had the marketing team leaned into the comedy of it a little more, there'd be way less confusion over it, you have to think.