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Monster Hunter – Movie Review
Trailer/Thumbnail Courtesy Sony Pictures
It’s not easy to adapt a video game into a movie, as several examples can attest to. How do you take the interactive experience of moving a character through a variety of obstacles and turn that into an entertaining movie? With
Monster Hunter, director/writer Paul W.S. Anderson (no stranger to video game adaptations) tries his best by plunking Milla Jovovich’s Army Captain Artemis into a world full of giant creatures. While the monster designs are quite impressive, the story is largely a bore and it’s hard to be invested with how thin the characters are. Not helping matters is the choppy editing that makes the action scenes disorientating.