The Hunting Party Page #7

Synopsis: A young journalist, a seasoned cameraman and a discredited war correspondent embark on an unauthorized mission to find the no. 1 war criminal in Bosnia; they find themselves in serious jeopardy when they are mistaken as a CIA hit squad and their target decides to come after them.
Director(s): Richard Shepard
Production: The Weinstein Company/MGM
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
54
Rotten Tomatoes:
53%
R
Year:
2007
101 min
£796,001
Website
101 Views


Especially when CIA is here.

No, we're not CIA.

We're really not C... F***!

For weeks we've been hearing rumors

that CIA is here.

The CIA is coming for me.

We hear everything.

We know everything.

This is the thing. We're not CIA.

We're just journalists.

Just journalists. We just came...

We were trying to get an interview with you.

But you tell others that you are CIA.

No! No, no, we didn't.

We didn't say anything...

You said to Boris.

No. We didn't. We didn't say that.

He was just really confused.

We're really just journalists.

And we're not here to hurt you.

Srdjan.

No, no, no!

Oh, no, please don't do it!

You can't do it.

- Hello?

- You got to be f***ing kidding me.

Fox!

Fox went out the back!

He's out the back!

Move in!

Guys, move it!

Extraction team 107,

this is Firebase Lima. Stand by.

Look, this is a news event.

We are newsmen.

We want off the copter now.

- You ever heard of freedom of the press?

- Not in Bosnia, sir, no.

All right. Jazzy, let's start this bird up.

Wait. Where are we going, exactly?

Hey, excuse me. Did you catch him?

That's classified information.

Classified.

Correct. Classified.

So you're saying you didn't catch him?

He was right f***ing there!

Just what are you insinuating?

I was an inch... an inch from this guy!

He was there!

We saved your life.

That was our mission.

You cut it pretty close, don't you think?

We did our job. Now you guys

got to get the hell out of this country.

No. No, I think there's a pretty good story

to tell inside this country.

I was nose-to-nose with the most wanted

fugitive in the world.

Let me tell you something, Mr. C*nt.

- Hunt.

- Mr. Hunt.

You're lucky I haven't already

arrested your sorry ass

and thrown you in a dark f***ing hole

with no f***ing exits.

Arrested for what?

Lmpersonating a CIA officer

is a serious offense.

Jesus f***.

We never impersonated anyone.

Your friend Boris is on a plane for Uganda

where he will now be stationed.

But before he was suddenly

transferred to darkest Africa

to never be heard from again,

we confronted him

about your little representation.

If I ever hear from you again,

the CIA will be on you like a cheap suit

from the Men's Wearhouse.

You'll be arrested, jailed,

and sodomized by a big, dumb,

large-cocked Serbian bastard

for the rest of your shitty little lives.

And if you don't care about that,

if you like big Serbian cock,

and you still plan

on reporting any of this,

then your friend Boris

will find himself eaten

by a tiger or lion or a squirrel

or whatever f***ing animal

we can find in darkest Africa.

And you'll have to live with that.

I assume that I can quote you

on the squirrel remark.

Look, C*nt.

The CIA has a bright side,

the CIA has a dark side,

and then there's the gray side.

We do the things that people

don't need to know about.

It's a part we deny even exists.

It's a part of the CIA that's been working for

the last three weeks in Bosnia on the Fox.

And what have you been working on doing,

letting him disappear?

Let me ask you a question.

Why do you think the CIA

would want to let a war criminal go?

Let me ask you a question.

In five years, why has the CIA,

the Hague, the United Nations, and NATO

not been able to find a guy

that we found in just two days

if you actually wanted to find him?

We're giving you a one-way ticket home.

I suggest you use it.

We're not saving your asses again.

From this moment on,

the story's being written by others.

The Americans, yeah,

they brokered the peace agreement,

but some would suggest they

made a secret deal with the Fox,

that if he stepped down from power

they would not arrest him for war crimes.

You ever flown in

one of these puppies before?

You won't have feeling

in your ass for a week.

- Great.

- It's nice they packed for us.

So what are you going to do?

I don't know.

Go to Greece with Duck.

Share some moussaka

with him and his girlfriend.

Duck?

Duck?

What is it?

They sent Boris out of this country

because he was actually

trying to catch the Fox.

They're sending us away

because we found him.

No, he found us.

We're lucky we still have our heads.

No, it's like no one in a position

of power in this place

even wants to try and catch that bastard.

And that's just wrong.

Yeah.

What are you saying?

I'm saying we can't leave.

I think I just wet myself.

All right.

Yeah.

Yeah, let's go get this bastard.

Okay, gentlemen, load 'em up.

We're ready to go.

Prepare plane for taxi.

All right, um, what's the plan?

Run.

Run? That's your plan?

Yeah. Run.

As a kid I never dreamed

about being an action hero.

But, as Boris said, in dirty times,

dirty deeds need to be done.

The rest of the story,

I guess, is urban legend.

I'd tell you it was true,

but you'd never believe me anyway.

Mirjana did find out

where the Fox was hiding,

and that gave us the idea of how

the three of us could catch him.

You see, you can't go hunting

with ten bodyguards.

It's too noisy.

It scares off the animals.

Doctor?

Where is the rest of your team?

There ain't no team, you motherf***er.

It's just us.

I get you $5 million.

United States currency.

Take it. It's yours.

We get $5 million just for turning you in.

You turn me in, and then what?

They are more afraid of me

than I am of them.

You do not have the balls to kill me.

And you do not have the balls

to take my money.

And you do not have the balls

to see what the international community

will do or not do to me.

You have nothing.

That's why we've got to change the rules.

If the power comes back on,

it still doesn't mean you can leave.

I'm never leaving.

I'll have myself surgically attached to you.

This was Marda's town.

It's one of the few places

Muslims came back to.

They'll know best what to do with him.

Let me borrow 50 bucks.

What? We just left $5 million

tied to the side of the road.

You want to borrow 50 bucks?

Actually, make it a hundred.

You know, when all this hits,

it's going to be a sh*t-storm of

international denial and cover-ups.

Maybe you could talk to your father,

get me that gig to report it.

Then I can pay you back.

All right.

So what are you going to do?

You going to stay and cover it?

Are you?

I got the cushy gig in New York.

The girl in Greece.

The story...

The story's going to be right here.

Just play something decent on this, will you?

For once?

Simon, you're the only man I know

who would borrow money

to repay a debt that you took to repay a debt.

And that's why you love me.

That's why I love you.

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