The Hunter (1980)

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Ok so if truth be told I am a Steve McQueen fan, Its true i have his picture on my wall and a reproduction of The Great Escape t-shirt in my wardrobe. I have a huge collection of his films on DVD also even the ones with no story (Bullitt and Le Mans)

This film is a sad end note to an Icons career, playing the famous bounty hunter Ralph Papa Thomson McQueen is hardly believable and as much as the scenes are based on some actual events they seem forced and the comedy is out of place. The director starts buy establishing this as a bio pic then adds scenes that are just plain silly and they look as if they've been thought up by a child.

Go and watch a good McQueen film instead on this, watch him upstage Paul Newman in The Towering Inferno or Yul Brynner in The Magnificent Seven In these films he pushing himself and really acting. Junior Bonner or Tom Horn hell anything apart from this its Heart breaking to watch the King Of Cool in this.