“The Hunting Party” stalks some recognizable territory, chasing after the thrills and black comic absurdity that come in the wake of war. Set in Bosnia-Herzegovina five years after the end of the conflict there, the entertaining muddle tries to be both whimsical and Seriously Important.
It blends up cool-guy bravado, a rock ’n’ roll sensibility, personality eccentricity and violence as it toggles between moments of gallows humor and tense action. But this fictionalized rendering, inspired by the wild misadventures of some of the real-life war correspondents in the spring of 2000, works only intermittently. Theirs was quite a story on its face, apparently, even without the over-heightening of it by writer-director Richard Shepard (“The Matador”).
