The Tracker (2019) User Reviews

Terrible, slow Film!

[canike07 · 3/10 · 6 July 2019]

I'm a Dolph Lundgren fan but this was terrible! One of the worst editing jobs I've seen. It's like a bunch of randomly filmed scenes all put together, no flow of any kind of story. Very slow and the action sucked. They used stand ins for Dolph on almost any scene that was shot from the back, acting was bad and nothing made sense. Just avoid at all costs and hopefully next time we get a decent action flick from Lundgren.

old version of Taken (2008), but far from good

[NijazBaBs · 4/10 · 9 July 2019]

Similar idea to Taken of Liam Neeson. Basically revenge, child, corruption, taking things into own hands, saving somebody. Meaning good idea or topic, and story. But bad colors, resolution, recording, acting, details, quality, and almost everything. There is too much dark colors, to little things to see because most is recorded from the close up, not showing us greater picture of the environment. Also not good intro, explanation, and outro. Also did not like that there was too much foreign language which makes it difficult or impossible to understand. Bit adventurous and emotional. But still too old. Overally I am not satisfied. I expected better explanation, intro, and more daylight and colors.

Lost

[kosmasp · 5/10 · 3 December 2021]

Yes that is a pun. But in case you are wondering why Dolph Lundgren is in a movie like this: it's because he has to pay his bills. Medical and otherwise - and this does that. Not to mention that he gets to travel to a country he may not have been in or just enjoy one he has gone before.

I really like Dolph and I have seen worse movies (some of them starring Steven Seagal, who some may compare to Dolph, rightly or not). But I really felt sorry for him in a couple of scenes. He has a certain age and some of the longer shots are not flattering at all. He is not at the point where it looks like slow motion when he runs, but he is not the fastest on his feet anymore either.

Anyway, the action is ok and if you are a fan of his, the paper thin story won't really matter either. Other than that, there is some italian if that is helping the case of the movie - so up to you to decide what you'll make of this.

Why, Dolph?

[Plazeebo · 2/10 · 10 August 2019]

Dolph Lundgreen has the looks. He has the skills. And he has had a lot of opportunities to go big, playing parts in big productions.

Then why does he do these amateur movies? He's obviously the only trained actor - the rest are extras with no acting skills. The filmography is just as ridiculous as the score, and it's evident that no real writer was attached.

This is not even at par with film school projects, and Dolph is not getting younger.

I would love to see him play the lead in an adaption of just about any Robert Ludlum film adaptation.

Why even make this movie

[zathan-32848 · 1/10 · 4 July 2019]

This is a very useless movie that they should never have wasted time and money on making. It has parts of a story, but not all, maybe there is 30% of the story here. And seriously no background on anyone. Suddenly there is some drugs and then there is a kidnapping... Looks like Dolph Lundgren took a vacation to italy and managed to include a little acting...

Should have read reviews first

[caveb-99096 · 2/10 · 29 June 2020]

Dolph Has aged well and is good eye candy, however, this plot needed more.

More you might ask? It needed more storyline, better character development, and some more of something.

Waste of time

[maseditb · 1/10 · 15 August 2019]

Students cast that is all I can say, wasted time. I really hated the way movie ended.

Worst most boring movie I've seen in years.

[Buck-921-223645 · 1/10 · 28 September 2019]

This movie is so slow, low budget, and boring, and the acting is so horrible, that is one of the worst movies I've seen in a decade.

It was an accident.

[nogodnomasters · 2/10 · 5 August 2019]

We see Aiden Hakansson as a chipmunk cheek kid growing up to be Dolph Lundgren. In 2008 his wife and child are kidnapped, ransomed, and then killed. Fifteen years later Aiden gets a call that they have a lead. He travels to Italy to discover the cop who had re-opened the case cut his own throat in an Italian suicide. Everyone is corrupt, including the cops who no longer want to investigate. Need I say more?

Dolph is too old to go "Liam Neeson" all over everyone. He does some hand to hand fighting, but mostly uses a sniper rifle he happened to have in Italy. It was painful to watch a trite script all the way through.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

So many questions

[njessup-72624 · 1/10 · 27 July 2020]

Can the fake babies belly be any less real? The plotline was very slow. And after watching I'm even more confused and lost than when I started. Where did the Albanians come from? Why did a drug lord need to kidnap to fund highly profitable drug trade? Why couldn't the bad guys hear any a 45 caliber pistol going off inside the evil lair. Why did the cop father have pictures of his twins at about 4 weeks old the very night they were born, and why didnt the wife call the husband when she went into labor?

Overall this movie attempts a variety of typical action movie slash revenge flick tropes that are already tired and rusty and still manages to flop on a lot of the areas. The action is like watching grandpa chew jello the reasons people do things is ambiguous. Overall the only thing I could think while watching is where can I go to get my time refund?

Worth a watch, dolph is great

[smayer-5 · 8/10 · 7 July 2019]

Dolphs great in this movie little slow at first but some great twists through out this movie acting very good .not the best but not the worst middle of the riad movie i enjoyed it

Did a 5th grader write this script?!

[gary_sites · 1/10 · 9 November 2020]

How can a movie be so awful and still get as far as a streaming service where unsuspecting folks like me can watch this garbage. I watched it because I like Lundgren. Why in the world would he do such a terrible film? He had to have read the script. Worst writing I've ever seen brought to the screen. Horrible dialogue, and the thing was so full of holes, it made my eyes bleed. Did someone have to make this stupid thing because a gun was being held to his head? Worst movie I've ever seen. I only watched it all to see how many plot holes I could find as we went along. I don't know whether to laugh or cry because I watched this thing.

Beyond HORRIBLE

[whazzupskippy · 1/10 · 24 October 2019]

The acting was horrible, the "fight" scenes were worse, and the background "music" was worse than that! Dolph walked like he was over 100 years old, could barely walk up the stairs, and was too decrepit to do the fight scenes that, at best, showed him throwing a belabored punch -- painful to watch. When he went into martial arts mode he could barely raise his leg so it was mostly edited out. As if it couldn't get any worse, it did -- the story was ridiculous.

Wasn't the worst but close to

[ks-60500 · 2/10 · 3 October 2019]

Mysterious is not, exciting is not, unpredictable is not, action is not, violence is not, romantic is not. This movie is typically nothing good at any aspects.

It's Dolph.

[ferdmalenfant · 5/10 · 20 September 2019]

Yes I've seen better movies but believe me I've seen a lot worse. There's not as much action in this one and I blame the movie's director for the lack of action sequences. A tight budget didn't help things.

All in all, it's Dolph and he's always fun to watch. The man is a MIT grad in Chemical Engineering amongst other similar achievements. Huge breakthroughs for Dolph came in the form of "the EXPENDABLES"1. 2 & 3 . Dolph is now an actor and a damn good one at that.

I truly believe that Dolph''s big role is yet to come. He'd be very good in the right comedy. He always cracks me up.

Fail

[henkveldezwolle · 1/10 · 6 October 2019]

Dear Mr Lundgren, I think it's best for us all if you would decide to become a priest.... This where 90 minutes I never get back....

Lundgren goes spaghetti western

[leon-geyer · 5/10 · 23 November 2020]

The film is strange. I liked some actings, I was surprised with Elizabeth Kinnear, who I didn't know, and liked the performance of many Italian actors. The performance of the writer and of the director not, the story is incongruous, a lot of details are absurd and/or absolutely cliche. Ok, the director gave the actors some space for silences, I liked that. So, I enjoyed some actings, but suffered the rest....

Hacks

[jwil67 · 2/10 · 8 July 2020]

Dolph Lundgren deserves a decent script and a decent director of photography and a decent first unit director....this movie has none of those. Just greedy producers not willing to hire more experienced people.

Appalling everything

[nick-796-750597 · 2/10 · 20 August 2021]

Terrible script, pace, continuity, acting, credibility.

Actually I felt embarrassed for the crew & cast.

Cringe worthy.

Only gave it two stars because I watched it until the end.

The Tracker

[btreakle · 8/10 · 3 June 2020]

So I agree this is a slow starter as far as thrillers go but Dolph is great in the action scenes. A story of revenge and justice,for a loving father. I liked the story and the theme comes to life as this story unfolds

something, something conspiracy

[PIST-OFF · 2/10 · 29 April 2021]

Usually a fan of Dolph Lundgren and feel as though he's never really got a chance to shine. This movie is indicative of the choices he makes unfortunately. I couldn't really follow the plot which seems to tie different people and events together only haphazardly. It's like the writer thought about action scenes but not any cohesive or compelling reason for them to be a movie. The few action scenes have that choppy editing and shaky cam to cover the fact that they are poorly done. Nothing ever seems adequately explained so it's hard to care. And loads of the movie are dark to make things even more muddled. Even at a merciful 79 minutes (minus credits) it's still too long.

not a great fun action film at least if your here for Dolph Lundgren

[nikola17 · 5/10 · 13 April 2020]

It's not worst or not really bad film i mean on stop believing the ratings oh it got 3.2 doesn't mean oh crap it's worst movie of all time, nah believe me i seen much worser Dolph Lundgren films like 4GOT10, Altitude, Legendary, In the Name of the King: Two Worlds, Retrograde,The Last Patrol AKA Last Warrior, Pentathlon, Cover Up the worst films i have seen then to this film. i thought this film was okay it's simple cliche film Dolph Lundgren has done a lot of films that has got to do with Revenge like with Punisher (1989), Showdown in Little Tokyo, Army of One, The Russian Specialist AKA Mechank, Skin Trade but with this movie it's slow not much action he had

something to do in film like fight scenes, him shooting bad guys but the film wasn't much but unless if your here to watch Dolph Lundgren that's about it theirs nothing too excited about this movie but at least it's watchable for Lundgren if your die hard fan of him, i even met Dolph Lundgren back of day in 2015 i have all his movies in my collection as well. story follows Aiden Hakansson (Dolph Lundgren) has a wife and daughter brought them to party 15 years earlier, his wife and daughter were kidnapped by a mysterious

stranger travels to a remote village in Italy. in present day i don't understand why Dolph doesn't look for his family back 15 years because he is just living a normal life by himself he tries to go up to cops ask for help, you have this cop Antonio Graziani (Marco Mazzoli) He travels to Italy to discover the cop who had re-opened the case wants to help Aiden to find killer who killed his wife and kid. but i thought the action was okay nothing too special but i thought this film just needed Dolph Lundgren going out getting revenge and get a full on action because the cop Antonio who helps him doesn't need to be in film he could of just went out their for himself like what other revenge movies did but

this needed to be much better not a slow burn pace film just to wait for final showdown. i wish this film could have been a better movie not slow paced film Not fast moving, but still enjoyable film like it's not the worstest Dolph film in his career i mean look at worser films like Cover Up, Last Patrol AKA Last Warrior the worstest films i have ever seen in my life then to this movie i mean look if you die hard fan of Dolph Lundgren you watch it and you can decide to whatever you like movie or not your choice but i thought it was one of those films to watch as time waster not a film i want to watch often just for a Dolph Lundgren Marathon i would watch it for i recommended a better movie with Dolph his recent movies like Acceleration, Hard Night Falling a lot more better then to this movie.

Meh

[kwanfam · 5/10 · 2 April 2021]

Needed serious edits. Idea was ok, but execution was poor. Blocking of scenes needed much more thought.

There is more than one movie called The Tracker! This isnt the good one.

[loriboast · 3/10 · 31 January 2022]

Before watching, I saw Dolph was in it, so I expected a B movie. I don't like B movies. I looked up reviews and saw 4 out of 5, 8 out of 10. Glowing reviews it appeared, and I didn't read any because I didnt want spoilers.

Turns out, there's two "The Tracker" movies! A couple of times I stopped the movie to look up reviews again.. and all of a sudden I see 2 stars out of 10..

Ahhh. So I watched it all, having invested myself. What a weird movie. The storyline was fine, but bits look like they where shot in the 80s, and I finally just left the subtitles on, because who knew when they'd morph into Italian, and not bother to give the English veiwers subtitles. Some of the actors were fine, but the writing... not so much.

It just borders on OK. But had I seen the poor reviews before I started it, I never would have watched.

Dolph is looking good for his age though, so good on him.

The movie does more things wrong than right

[jordondave-28085 · 3/10 · 13 November 2023]

(2019) The Tracker ACTION THRILLER

Co-produced, co-written and directed by Giorgio Serafini that has a professional sharpshooter, Aiden Hakansson (Dolph Lundgren) wife and daughter are kidnapped for a half a million dollar ransom. When it does not go accordingly, they are then killed. The movie then jumps 10 years later with Hakansson coming back to Italy where the initial crime took place, and was supposed to meet a detective for some new information regarding the killers of his family. And when that det. Does not show up, the server who knows the detective tells him that it was announced that he had committed suicide. Meanwhile, the criminal gang who killed Hakansson's family has their tail on him. Hakansson eventually teams up with a straight and narrow commissioner, Antonio Graziani (Marco Mazzoli) who was transferred from a different department from another city. We know more about him as he too has a wife named April (Elizabeth Kinnear) and is expecting his first set of twins. Viewers also find out that one of the detective's happens to be dirty, Giordano (Cosimo Fusco) who works alongside the leader of the criminal organization, his name is Lupo (Bruno Bilotta) and another criminal name Sortori (Vito Facciolla), motivating both Hakansson and cop Antonio to go in a save situation, saving someone else's little girl who's also abducted for the intention of money and favors.

Almost immediately from the get-go, it was baffling to watch to begin with. The first time I saw this, it immediately put me to sleep, for it assumes viewers to know that it jumped 10 years later, as opposed to it being mention later on. I t was determined that Hakansson's wife and child was to be targeted for such a huge ransom in the first place. In other words, viewers are kept in the dark how Hakansson his current occupation in comparison to what he used to do, which was sharpshooting. He just looked like any regular person and yet, he was able to put up a half a million dollar ransom that the culprits demanded from him- like huh!

Although, I love the idea of the detective used a different another apartment for his investigation. I thought how dumb it was for the cop to continue to use his puny handgun to take out the bad guys when they're much deadlier weapons around him he could have used. But he did not need those multiple round weapons after all- the bad guys were just terrible shooters after all.