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[Review] Monster Hunter Delivers on Big Monster Mayhem Fun
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Monster Hunter Is a Collection of Frames Resembling a Movie Directed by Paul W S Anderson
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CinemaBlend
Dec. 16. 2020 2:00 PM
Devotee and non-fan alike should be able to enjoy this surprisingly exciting adventure thatâs dedicated to help end 2020 on a high, monster slaying note.
Starring:
Milla Jovovich, T.I., Ron Perlman, Diego Boneta, Tony Jaa
Written By:
Paul W. S. Anderson
Directed By:
Paul W. S. Anderson
Distributor:
Screen Gems
Devotee and non-fan alike should be able to enjoy this surprisingly exciting adventure thatâs dedicated to help end 2020 on a high, monster slaying note.
Video game movies tend to get a bad rap, as this particular genre of film perpetually frustrates fans of properties like
For roughly two-thirds of its running time, the big-screen video game adaptation “Monster Hunter” feels like an attempt to answer a question no one has asked: What would the “Jurassic Park” movies be like if they were drained of all sense of wonder? The film rallies toward the end with a few genuinely spectacular images, but even its best scenes fail to justify a tedious first hour.
Written and directed by the veteran genre movie impresario Paul W.S. Anderson, “Monster Hunter” stars the battle-tested action-adventure actor Milla Jovovich, who also anchored Anderson’s “Resident Evil” films. She brings her usual spark to the role of Natalie Artemis, a no-nonsense U.S. Army officer who is leading her troops on a desert mission when a sandstorm transports them to another dimension dominated by enormous, predatory, dinosaur-like animals.
There are killer film openings and then there are the first five minutes of
Monster Hunter. Kicking off with a scene of a pirate ship careening through an ocean of sand toward a mysterious dark tower, a grizzled and fur-draped Ron Perlman at the helm, all backed with a wild synth-heavy score, the beginning of Paul W.S. Anderson’s video-game adaptation is peak fantasy-thriller cuckoo-bananas madness. I had to stop myself three times from yelling out, “Hell yeah!” lest I woke up my 11-month-old son napping upstairs.
The only problem is that after those first few outlandish minutes,
Monster Hunter settles into … well, not exactly a more mundane narrative speed, but certainly one less enjoyably bonkers. Swapping interdimensional sand pirates for the familiarity of a United Nations joint security task force roaming somewhere in the desert, the film now focuses on a standard search-and-rescue mission, with Captain Artemis (Milla Jovovich) and her crew of standard-issue roughne
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