There are the occasional VISIBLE threats to the hunter and his quest, but they're also half-hearted. Then I find out exactly why the big company want the tiger, but it doesn't increase what little stakes there are. The hunter's search for the tiger is interesting, and mildly dramatic. I like them and care about them and their relationship with the hunter, but their drugged-out mother is a bore and the hunter's possible burgeoning relationship with her is, like the rest of the story so far, half-hearted. That man's kids are needy and believable. He meets some cliché opposition from the local rednecks, and a grizzled old ham (Sam Neill), who looks predictably shifty and may have something to do with the disappearance of the last man who sought the tiger. I meet a selfish, very independent hunter (Dafoe - very good) whose mission is to find the apparently extinct Tasmanian tiger, because a big company wants it. ![]() I never really understood what was supposed to be at stake here.
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