Hunting

Atmospherically shot around Melbourne, this thriller keeps threatening to turn into something exceptional only to lapse back into mediocrity at all the wrong moments. John Savage seems to be in a different film from everyone else for the first third of the action as he arrives from the States to rescue his struggling business, but there's definitely a spark in the love scenes he shares with secretary Kerry Armstrong. However, the stand-out sequence involves ex-Neighbours star Guy Pearce. Writer/director Frank Howson clearly has an eye for a striking image, but his storytelling needs a little attention.