On a gravel plain stretching to infinity, Milla Jovovich’s Captain Natalie Artemis stands with her back to camera and a map in hand. As the sunrise washes over her, a frenzied voice calls for backup on the radio. When she turns around, an extreme close-up chisels in the details: a layer of dirt on the face; a pale, green-blue eye in profile. She bangs the hood of a patrol buggy, snapping her team of roughnecks back to their mission into unknown territory. “Alright, ladies, saddle up.” Her voice a low, husky growl that recalls the mumbling tough guys of ’80s action staples. “She’s a woman,” quips one of her foot soldiers, “but she still manages to make that sound like an insult.”
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It’s not often video game movie adaptations live up to the expectations of the source material many have immersed themselves with over the years, let alone becomes one of the most faithful video game adaptation that builds on the extensive canon and lore of its world. However Paul W.S. Anderson’s
Monster Hunter is breaking the mold.
Behind our world, there is another: a world of dangerous and powerful monsters that rule their domain with deadly ferocity. When an unexpected sandstorm transports Lt. Artemis (Milla Jovovich) and her unit (Tip “T.I.” Harris, Meagan Good, Diego Boneta) to a new world, the soldiers are shocked to discover that this hostile and unknown environment is home to enormous and terrifying monsters immune to their firepower. In their desperate battle for survival, the unit encounters a mysterious Hunter (Tony Jaa), whose unique skills allow him to stay one step ahead of the powerful creatures. As Artemis and the Hunter slowly build trust,
One Big Monster Hunter Stunt Really Had Milla Jovovich Fearing for Her Life
One Big Monster Hunter Stunt Really Had Milla Jovovich Fearing for Her Life
The Humvee stunt in Monster Hunter put Milla Jovovich in the front seat for real.
Resident Evil series. The duo, now married, have teamed up again for the upcoming big creature feature
Monster Hunter. Despite her years of experience in the action genre, Jovovich revealed that there was one particular scene in the new film where she is strapped into a flipping humvee that made her fear for her life. It was awful. It was really awful, because I get real claustrophobic. They actually built a rig that was like a rotisserie, so that Humvee was like the chicken, and it would go round and round. And, you know, they would strap us in, with all of our armor and all of our gear, and blow all of this debris into the car, and it was just like, loud. I was literally having a panic attack, I couldn t. And you re going upside down. it was lik
The story goes that Paul W.S. Anderson has been trying to make a film version of the video game series “Monster Hunter” since 2012, but one would never guess this after seeing the end result. Say what you will about the often critically derided films in the “Resident Evil” series, there’s at least a sense of style behind them that’s entirely missing for the first hour of “Monster Hunter.” That hour is bafflingly incompetent, failing to give viewers even the basic action they presume comes with a purchase or rental of something called “Monster Hunter.” At around the 70-minute mark, the Anderson who knows how to use excess for entertainment wakes up, but it will be too late for most people, who will either be asleep or figuring out if there’s a way to get a refund on their VOD rental. And then Anderson sabotages any goodwill he could have left with his viewers by dropping a non-ending designed purely to tease a sequel that seems unlikely to ever be. When it was a
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Monster Hunter – Movie Review
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It’s not easy to adapt a video game into a movie, as several examples can attest to. How do you take the interactive experience of moving a character through a variety of obstacles and turn that into an entertaining movie? With
Monster Hunter, director/writer Paul W.S. Anderson (no stranger to video game adaptations) tries his best by plunking Milla Jovovich’s Army Captain Artemis into a world full of giant creatures. While the monster designs are quite impressive, the story is largely a bore and it’s hard to be invested with how thin the characters are. Not helping matters is the choppy editing that makes the action scenes disorientating.