Milla Jovovich Would Always Love to Return to the Resident Evil Franchise
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, hit theaters in 2016, seemingly bringing the journey of Milla Jovovich s Alice to an end, but the concept is far from dead, as a new reboot film is being developed, in addition to both a live-action and animated series in the works. With Jovovich tackling a new video game adaptation with
Monster Hunter, one can t help but wonder if this means
Resident Evil is entirely in her past, but she recently confirmed that, were any upcoming project to reach out to her about an opportunity, she d love to be involved in some capacity.
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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,
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There are fantasy films with intricate worlds sagas of faraway lands with fleshed-out rules. There may not be any elves or demons in real life, but some films work hard enough at world-building to help us suspend disbelief and get engrossed in the various dynamics of made-up places.
Monster Hunter (out on VOD this Friday) is not one of those movies.
That s not necessarily a failing, since
Monster Hunter isn t pretending to be Tolkien. It sells itself as a movie about Milla Jovovich fighting CGI monsters, and it is indeed a movie about Milla Jovovich fighting CGI monsters no more and no less. Like Jovovich s previous collaborations with her husband, director Paul W.S. Anderson, on the
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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.