Recently I rented it so I could finally see the first half hour and my feelings about it changed. I had seen most of this film on cable and thought I understood it. The themes and plot devices are familiar, to be sure - the sense of honor, the anti-hero, the wet behind the ears rookie lawman, even a little bit of a love story. The premise is established well, with Bronson as the noble loner and Marvin as the gruff, weary Canadian Mountie. The problem, of course, with most films of this ilk is that they offer a minimum set-up and characters and then set the guns a-blazin'. To do so, however, would be to overlook a well-made gem of an adventure film. With a lurid title like "Death Hunt" and lead actors like Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin, it would be easy to dismiss this film as just another shoot-'em-up run through the mill to capitalize on the marquee names (particularly Bronson).
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