Movie Review: Kraven the Hunter

 

Michael's Movie Grade: D

More than outright terrible, this Marvel film is instantly forgettable. 

Sadly, the live action Sony Marvel films have come off as okay at best and near unwatchable at worst. This may not be the worst of these movies but there is not much about it to recommend either. The main problem here is that everything about this movie is extremely familiar. Everything that happens is something we have seen before and often times done much better. Because of it is very likely that a few days after you watch it, it will be hard to remember much of anything that happened. This is not helped by very bland main characters. These characters have so little to their personalities that it is hard to ever connect with them and really care about what happens to them. Though this movie does slow down at times and is not just constant action, all of those slower scenes are simply boring because they never really help establish the characters. Kraven is simply your typical action movie anti-hero with nothing to help him stand out. Rhino (who bares incredibly little resemblance to his comic book counterpart) is simply a boring typical action movie villain. Every other character is also extremely underdeveloped. There is a twist involving one of these characters towards the end that seems to come out of nowhere because there was no lead up to the sudden change in the character's actions. Outside of some truly horrible CGI (which is so bad that it makes the worst CGI in the MCU or DC movies look fantastic in comparison), there is little about this movie that is outright bad. Because of this unlike some of the truly awful superhero movies out there, superhero fans can't even get mad at how bad it is. This can make for a rather bland and emotionless experience. 

The one thing about this movie that is actually quite good is the action scenes. These are quite well done and fun to watch (again with the exception of the bad CGI (I cannot overstate how bad it is)). The action scenes also make good use of the R rating. 

Another lackluster Sony Marvel movie.