Admittedly, this is a brief teaser that doesn’t give us a whole lot to work with, but it’s probably enough to grab the attention of quite a few potential viewers. We see a grizzled Al Pacino plotting out the locations of former Nazis like a madman. We get brief glimpses of him getting to work on said Nazis, which looks brutal and cinematic Pacino provides a bit of badass voiceover saying, “This is not murder, this is mitzvah.” The definition of mitzvah is “a good deed done from religious duty.” So that provides a little window into where the character stands.
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Hunters centers on a diverse group of Nazi hunters who reside in New York City in 1977. Known as “The Hunters”, they have learned that hundreds of former high-ranking Nazi officials are now living among us with plans on creating a Fourth Reich in the United States. The eclectic team then sets out on a bloody mission to bring the Nazis to justice and dismantle their new genocidal plans.
One of the interesting elements here is the comeback of Al Pacino. This year alone, he starred in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and is also starring in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, which hits select theaters this weekend. After years of starring in underwhelming projects, one of our finest actors seems to be on the rise once again.
