Monster Hunter is directed by Paul WS Anderson and is based off of the game, this movie stars Milla Jovovich as a military captain who along with her unit is sent to a different world through a mysterious portal where giant Monsters roam the land and now the race is on to not only fight the Monsters but also get back home.
I didn’t have a large amount of hope for this movie, all I wanted really is for big monsters getting blown up real good on a big cinema screen like in Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim in 2013 but this movie is nowhere near that film.
Mainly because its just so boring to sit through, the editing for a start is really bad with so many fast cuts and constant zooming in and out it becomes a strain on your eyes after a while, the storytelling is also very messy, and it throws you into this movie without really explaining anything of substance until very late in the film.
And if you go back to Pacific Rim Del Toro took his time to explain the history of Kaiju on Earth and the War that for a moment had beaten them back through the Jaeger program in the beginning of that film and by the time the first big battle starts you know the history, the world of the film and what the characters are going to face, and it is what this movie should have done.
And lastly there’s no real characters to get behind, now I like Ms Jovovich I do but more and more it seems that she is squandering the goodwill she got with the Fifth Element in 1997 as here she doesn’t really play a character but an archetype that talks in platitudes for the most part, Ron Pearlman also shows up but even his reliable presence can’t help this movie.
And that was Monster Hunter and to quote Paul Anka in the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Just Don’t Look, Just Don’t Look as it commits the worst sin of a film of this kind: Its Boring, instead watch Pacific Rim, 1 out of 5.
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