steve mcqueen farewell performance in the hunter be a fine action thriller base on the true story of ralph pappy thorsen and bounty hunter and scourge of bail jumper everywhere or at least those in and around the chicago area . it interest how the film build up the level of difficulty of mcqueen case . his first case be bring in levar burton who be between the two role that make his career and in root a kunte kinte and in star trek the next generation a geordi laforge . the two of them hit it off so well that when burton charge be dismiss and he go to work for mcqueen . the film itself build up gradually to mcqueen last two case where the action in the last 25 minute doesn not let up at all and almost like an indiana jones film . there a fine action sequence involve pursuit on the chicago metro and later in a parking lot with mcqueen try to apprehend thomas rosales and jr. who be one real psycho . and then mcqueen have to deal with tracey walter and a psycho out to kill him who kidnap mcqueens pregnant girl friend kathryn harrold . walter make rosales look like cary grant and in fact it be the best psycho act since steve ihnat in madigan . always a pleasure in any film be eli wallach and reunite with mcqueen from one of mcqueen early triumph in the magnificent seven . wallach play the bail bondsman who hire mcqueen service and be his friend and confidante . mcqueen last illness come on him with suddenness and though he look his 50 year and he doesn not look ill in the hunter . a so he do not get the kind of cinema valedictory that john wayne do in the shootist . still the hunter be a fine film for a screen legend to go out on .