Me, I ve barely touched a joystick in anger since they took the last
Galaga stand-up out of the Aro Street Fish and Chip shop. But, I watch and read enough to know that gaming is still home to some of the most talented, creative and driven writers and directors working in any entertainment industry. Which, maybe, is the crux of the problem. Every video game is designed to tell the same story in a hundred different ways. The more unpredictable and difficult to master a game is, the more it will attract a following. But movies are pretty much the opposite. By the time you ve sat through the 90-second trailer of any action movie, you basically know the entire plot and nothing will surprise you too much.
Monster Hunter Finds the Fun and the Action But Misses a Third Act
Epic video game action meets 1974 s The Land That Time Forgot in the latest from the director of Resident Evil.
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Paul W.S. Anderson‘s
Resident Evil (2003) and its subsequent franchise, but most fail to find the balance in bringing a game to a new medium. Cater too much to the gamers, and you risk alienating newcomers to your world. Carry over too little, though, and you’re likely to upset the fans who made the game a hit in the first place.
Monster Hunter is Anderson’s third go at a video game adaptation he also directed 1995’s
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Video game adaptation king Paul W.S. Anderson is at it again with a monster-themed action flick starring Milla Jovovich and Tony Jaa.
More an expensive VFX demo reel than a story, the latest Paul W.S. Anderson film hopes to take yet another video game, Capcom s
Monster Hunter, and turn it into a money-minting movie franchise. Teaming again with wife Milla Jovovich, star of his hugely successful
Resident Evil series (also based on a Capcom franchise), the writer-director tacitly acknowledges his lack of interest in dialogue by introducing a co-star, Tony Jaa, whose character speaks no English. A few flashes of amused chemistry between the two actors represent all the human interest in this unimaginative sci-fi actioner, but that doesn t mean the pic s relentless focus on giant-monster battles won t please the director s fans.
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