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Hunters
The wide ads that Amazon made on every platform, made it easy to guess
that "Hunters" was for the American company, a top product, also for
the presence of Al Pacino. The idea come from Davide Weil, grandson of
a Holocaust survivor, and a young and interesting author who we will
often hear in the future and who not only convinced Amazon, but also Al
Pacino and a respectable cast of the goodness of his history.
As the title easily makes us think, here we are talking about hunters.
Nazi hunters to be precise, led by a grandiose Al Pacino whose
participation is not a simple cameo as a star idolized to catch
audience, but a central role for the events of history. Nazi hunters
who refer to true stories and not surprisingly there is a scene with
the character of Simon Wiesenthal the most famous Nazi hunter in
history, they talk about Operation Paperclip, that was the hiring by
NASA of former engineers Nazis with the approval of the American
government and reference is made to places, names and historical facts.
Very good at this point. Kill Nazis is always a good idea, (Wiesenthal
was of a completely different opinion), but, "Hunters", combines these
historical references with a comic book aspect of superheroes, also
giving lashes of comedy. And not only that, the first episodes have
clear references to Tarantino's cinema.
Thus, on the one hand we have history and on the other paradoxical
situations, whose encounter often leads us to a sense of confusion,
bewilderment. Should we laugh? We have to cry or get angry? Are the
historical facts mentioned real or not? Did the Nazis really play chess
using prisoners as pawns? These are the doubts that the ten episodes
often bring to the viewer.
The "Inglorius Basterds" approach in hunting the Nazis was marked by
paradox, liberating violence and a clear underlying fiction, which
embraced the whole film and which did not raise historical doubts.
The other Amazon series on the Nazis "The man in the High Castle", was clearly a fantasy, which had a single dramatic line.
Here, however, this double aspect put often in the shadow honourable
idea of Weil who wanted to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive.
But apart from this flaw, it must be recognized that "Hunters" is a
really good series, with a splendid setting from the seventies,
excellently directed and played (and not only for Al Pacino). Ten
episodes that manage to keep the tension high until the inevitable and
unpredictable final twist.
1970s, New York. Jonah Heidelbaum (Logan Lerman) witnesses the
mysterious murder of his grandmother (Jeannie Berlin). He was later
approached by a certain Meyer Offerman (Al Pacino) who introduced him,
after several hesitations, into a colourful group of Nazi hunters.
There is the poor actor Lonny Flash (Josh Radnor), an ambiguous girl
dressed as a nun, Harriet (the Australian Kate Mulvany), the spouses
Markowitz, (Saul Rubinek, Carol Kane) who survived a concentration
camp, the Afro-American Roxy with lots of super-hair (Tiffany Boone)
and martial arts expert the Japanese-American Joe (Louis Ozawa). Their
goal is to find and kill the Nazis who live incognito, but the risk of
becoming monsters too is high. The American Nazis instead led by the
Colonel (Lena Olin) who uses powerful killers like Travis (Greg
Austin), a Fargo-style character, aim to upset the order and conquer
power with a clever plan. In the middle there is no shortage of police
with the investigation conducted by Millie Morris (Jerrika Hinton).
Between imaginative murders, such as the one in the shower or the
interrogation in the recording studio, "Hunters" offers elegant and
well-studied moments. We'll see if "Hunters" when he grows up he
understands what he wants to do in life.
