Mel Gibson Hunting Season streaming, Digi Mart USA News: Academy Award winner and Lethal Weapon star Mel Gibson, now 70, is back in action in a recent thriller that is reported to be dominating streaming. Gibson aims to take the title of “best aged action hero parent” from Taken star Liam Neeson in the story of a dedicated father and reclusive survivalist who must protect his daughter from a ruthless criminal kingpin.
Packed into a swift 99 minutes, the film revives the action thriller style that made Gibson a bankable star in the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon franchises. It also continues his run of on-screen parent roles following the underrated Blood Father.
Directed by Raja Collins and written by Adam Hampton, Hunting Season stars Sophia Hublitz, Shelly Hennig and Jordi Molla alongside Gibson, and it took over Prime Video in just three days.
The story begins when a mysterious young woman washes up on the bank of a local river. She is discovered by a feisty twelve-year-old girl and her overprotective father, whose lives are changed by the stranger’s arrival in their home and by a merciless drug lord who will stop at nothing to kill her.
According to the report, the film is told with a slower burn than many viewers might expect, and Gibson defends his daughter from the threats at their door. The movie scored a “rotten” 53% from critics, while it earned a solid 62% from audiences on the Popcornmeter, and the report says it launched to the top spot on Prime Video.
The article notes that Gibson became near-unemployable in Hollywood during the mid-2000s following allegations of domestic abuse, an antisemitic tirade, alleged homophobic comments and racist remarks. It reports that he has since returned with recent releases including the Mark Wahlberg-led Flight Risk, the adventure horror movie Monster Summer and the crime thriller Boneyard, alongside Hunting Season.
Gibson is also set to continue his resurgence with a two-part sequel to 2004’s The Passion of the Christ. Titled The Resurrection of the Christ: Part One and The Resurrection of the Christ: Part Two, the films are due for release on May 6, 2027, and May 25, 2028, respectively.
Gibson is also planning a return as Martin Riggs in Lethal Weapon 5, which the report says will pick up with Riggs and Danny Glover’s Roger Murtaugh as older characters, one retired and one working a desk job. Gibson is quoted as saying the film “still has all the elements of what was in the other films, but not nearly so complicated.
But it deals more about the people in it.”
