Stephan Woodward

I would rate The Head Hunter lower because of how much of a missed opportunity this movie was to be something great, but I enjoyed the fundamentals and concept of this movie enough to where I think it deserves more recognition. I think the Man vs Wild genre can get a bad wrap because people immediately shy away from movies that have little to no dialogue and only three credited cast members. In turn, that was what The Head Hunter executed fenominally. People become too dependent on films holding their hand with constant exposition and not just letting the movie tell the story in its own way. This movie was in no way vegue with it's concepts and was really straight to the point. With the beautiful cinematography and haunting score, it told much more than what words could say. Honestly what kept it from being one of my favorite modern movies (and I hate to sound like this) is the lack of "action". In a movie with one man going around killing monsters, that's what you should see. And it's not like the "action" wasn't existent, it was just never shown... so in this case it wouldn't be forced at all. I feel like alot of that might have been do to the budget, but with the already incredible practical effects, it could have had a lot of very much missed, non-cgi monster imagery that you just don't see anymore. With all that said I'd hate for bad reviews to deter modern movie makers form taking chances at original concepts, especially in the fantasy genre. I mean it really just felt like watching another day in Skyrim. So 4 stars, would love to see more!