Movies Reviews

Night Hunter

As someone who has spent YEARS investigating everything from ransomware, sextortion, and kids stealing teacher credentials to make a hot or not page for their peers. These investigations also includes more illicit actions by criminals who take advantage of those that don't know or are easily duped

Garrett

Nov 14, 2026 — 3 min read

Synopsis

A detective investigates a young woman's death and escape from captivity. This leads him to find a network of hidden girls and the people abducting them, but the man doesn't seem capable.

Review

This was a decent movie. I think that some of the plot wouldn't work without a ton more compromise of police force, but overall it does tell a story of a plague that is happening now. Not trying to get political, but the abduction of woman is something that happens way to much. In Texas, the number of people that go missing is astronomical and I am sure those are only the ones that I am alerted about.

I found this movie from a clip I saw online. The way Henry Cavil's character talks to his daughter about how the people she is talking to online and how they might not be who they claim to be. As someone who has spent YEARS investigating everything from ransomware, sextortion, and kids stealing teacher credentials to make a hot or not page for their peers. These investigations also includes more illicit actions by criminals who take advantage of those that don't know or are easily duped because of phishing techniques. Go watch The Beekeeper to see more about that. However, it is this plot point that I honestly wish they spent more time talking about. We don't have good internet security training for kids and that is where I think the show was trying to go, but got lost in the criminals who knew too much.

The action in this is really good. I think they do a good job of making it feel real without having to create these big moments that don't fit the grounded nature of this movie. There are some tense parts that just work that I am not sure would in other movies like this.

My Rating

I enjoyed the movie. More because of the high stakes of it, but it just falls short in the execution. For the enemy to achieve what he did, he would have needed to be much more connected, by someone inside, and smart and he wasn't. It just stretched more than it should have. I am thinking this is a decent airplane movie, so I am giving it a 7.

Parental Rating

This is not the movie for them. There is a lot of language and for sure descriptions of the torture of women. For both those reasons, this is rejected by both my parents.