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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
MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM: 4 STARS It’s hard not to watch “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” the vibrant adaptation of August Wilson’s play of the same name, now streaming on Netflix, without feeling a sense of loss. It’s Chadwick Boseman’s last performance and the life he brings to the role of ambitious trumpet player Levee acts as a poignant reminder of a career cut tragically short. Set in the roaring 1920’s Chicago, Viola Davis plays the titular character, a real-life musical trailblazer known as Mother of the Blues. On a sweltering day in a dank basement recording studio, the band, pianist Toledo (Glynn Turman), trombonist Cutler (Colman Domingo), and string bassist Slow Drag (Michael Potts) and Levee, rehearse as they wait for the fashionably late Ma to arrive.
Milla Jovovich on Monster Hunter and Netflix s New Resident Evil Series lmtonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lmtonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Monster Hunter Is Loud, Unapologetic Fun Vulture.com 12/18/2020 Bilge Ebiri
Mortal Kombat, the
Resident Evil series, and now
Monster Hunter on his résumé. Each of these adaptations is quite different (and some are better than others), but if there’s one thing that seems to unite the pictures, and Anderson’s work in general, it has to be his attention to the environments in which the action takes place; he’s the most architectural of genre filmmakers. His first feature, the controversial indie British drama
Shopping, introduced the world to Jude Law as a nihilistic young hood who got his kicks crashing cars into shopping malls. In the two films that followed,