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Set in 1903, Tracker is a tense action thriller in which Arjan (Ray Winstone), a guerrilla survivor of the South African Boer War, lands in colonial New Zealand and is promised a bounty to capture Kereama (Temuera Morrison), a Maori seafarer accused of killing a British soldier. What should be a simple job for Arjan, a master tracker, turns into a gripping and dangerous game of cat and mouse as Kereama repeatedly escapes and is recaptured., all the while insisting on his innocence. As each gains and loses the upper hand, they find they have more in common that simply a mutual hatred of the British…
***** 5 Stars ***** A very fine movie made in the mold of great earlier films, "Tracker" explores the complex relationship that can evolve between the captor and the captured ... even as the roles reverse at times. "The Bridge on the River Kwai"(1957) certainly comes to mind, as does the underrated (and quite rare) 1968 film, "Hell In The Pacific" with Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune - Kurosawa's favorite actor, and one of the greats of cinema history. The acting in "Tracker" is outstanding - most of the movie consists of the interplay between Ray Winstone ("The Sweeney" and many others), and Temuera Morrison (various 'Star Wars' flicks, but most importantly, "Once Were Warriors" - a truly great film worth seeking out). And then there is the stunning beauty of New Zealand itself - coastland, forest and mountains, all are here, and all to die for - this is a memorably gorgeous film in almost every shot. So just push 'play,' and get swept away in an exotic but-not-too-distant time in history (1908), and some all-too-human themes. Thanks for reading! (OK, for gun nuts and the simply curious: the strange, boxy pistol carried by van Diemen (Ray Winstone's character) is a Mauser C96 from (duh) 1896; firing a 7.63×25mm Mauser cartridge, it was the most powerful semi-automatic pistol around until the .357 Magnum was introduced in 1935. No, you don't want to get even winged by this monster, as weird as it looks. The C96 was famously carried by Lawrence of Arabia in WW1, and more horrifically, used to murder the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas, and his entire family in 1918 (and sadly, Anastasia was one of them, we now know).
