Such great materials and many very good attempts to use them, but not quite as well thematically polished as I wish it would be. Highly original, sometimes wonderfully dynamic but too much flatlining to be great. Questionable morals, inconsistent tone, too much cliche. It also felt like he didn't have a proper rival. The assassin for the Nazis named Travis was an interesting character. I wish there was a stronger antagonist for him to play against.
He brought a believability to his character and stabilized most of the others. Throughout all this though, Al Pacino was stellar. Lots of plots folded like houses of cards. People stay alive who probably shouldn't. Twists happen just when they need to in the season. Jonah solves puzzles without any effort st exactly the right moment.
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Actually much of the series was resolved too easily. Because of this many character dynamics lost dramatic tension and resolved themselves too easily. Unfortunately "Hunters" did feel like a transplant of 2020 values and liberal attitudes onto 1970s dressed characters. There wasn't much attempt at nuance for the German side and it shouldn't have been ok for the deaths to happen as they did, either for the characters or for us as viewers. Biff Simpson was likely inspired by real Nazi Klaus Barbie, who was known as the Butcher of Lyon similar to Biffs moniker the Butcher of Arlav for. By some time it felt like I couldn't get behind the main characters or their mission anymore. I questioned their humor as well as their content and their delivery. While me enjoyment of these elements together persisted throughout several episodes, the grating personalities of several of the actors (why does Jonah curse so much? What's the deal with Joe? What does Roxy even do?) really started to wear me out, and much of the commercial-like inserts didn't do much for me at all. I got "Inglorious Bastards" vibes several times. I thought the mix was something never seen before, although the flavor of it was much like Tarantino films.
I appreciated the mix of chilling, somber sobriety about the terrible deeds of the Holocaust (though the director went to some effort to create fictional Holocaust events in lieu of real historical ones) and the kind of funky elements of the over the top 70s America. Where the series falters is, perhaps, it trying to almost cash-in on the human suffering and the horror.The first couple episodes of Amazon Prime Original series "Hunters" really wowed me. But the ones who survive the ‘gasing of ghettos’ are the heroes here, who hunt down the Nazis settled in New York. Now about the poster boy, Al Pacino!At 79, he lives up to the weighty legendary name, while taking on the character of Meyer Offerman, a concentration camp survivor himself and the one who takes Jonah under his wings. He is reasoning with his grandmother for dealing weed, all so that he can, “Put food on our tables and roof over our head.” Values are relative and in this case a luxury because, “sometimes when you are trying to survive, you don’t have a choice.” “You are worried about the world, the world is sure as heck, not worried about us,” so we are introduced to the nineteen-year-old Jewish boy Jonah Heidelbaum (Logan Lerman)from the late seventies, settled in New York with his safta (Hebrew for grandmother). The reality of concentration camps is further depicted in a real way so much so that we’re surprised the Hunters Challenge hasn’t become a hashtag yet. Well, within a few seconds we are given a peep into the psychology of the crime, “Thirty years of work that was, an entire life built, marrying that American pig, siring three tainted swine, how long I’d wanted to snap their little necks, leave it to the Jews to think only of their pathetic existence.” It’s a series you are likely to leave midway, not because it’s gory or boring but because it’s emotionally disturbing and psychologically scarring.
Starting from Maryland 1977, when a Sunday afternoon barbecuesuddenly turns into a bloodshed, when Biff Simpson (Dylan Baker), the Under Secretary of State, is accused by his associate’s wife of being The Butcher, the Nazi, who slaughtered her whole family. Even if somebody were to reveal the ending, or connect the dots in the same sequence as they unfold. Remember how the Money Heist spoiler alerts have been doing the rounds ever since the series got viral? Well, Amazon Prime’s 10-episode outing, inspired by real life Nazi Hunters of the 1970s, can hardly fall prey to spoilers of the usual kind.
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