Kraven The Hunter (Kraven the Hunter), the latest film adaptation of a character from Marvel Comics from Sony, is receiving a lot of criticism before its release.
The film stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the title character, a big game hunter who embarks on a path of revenge as a result of a complex relationship with his father, played by Russell Crowe.
Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) co-stars as Calypso Ezili, a voodoo priestess and Kraven’s love interest and the film is directed by JC Chandor (Margin Call, A Most Violent Year).
Kraven The Hunter is the sixth installment in Sony’s Spider-Man universe, following the three films. Venom, Morbius and Madame Web. However, like many of its predecessors in the franchise, it is widely criticized.
What the reviews say about Kraven The Hunter
In a scathing one-star review, The Independent wrote: “AGod, Spider-Man universe without Sony’s Spider-Man. You died as you lived: strange and careless… the script is deeply scattered and there is such a merciless amount of re-recorded dialogue inserted that there is little cohesion between scenes or even within them. Rest in peace, Sony Marvel universe: you really made people feel bad.”
Review of Little White Lies agreed: “It’s all desperately stupid.”they wrote. “Maybe that would be less of a problem if the film’s writers, stars, and director leaned a little more toward it, like in the Venom movies, but there’s an air of seriousness to Kraven the Hunter that makes it a “an arduous task that cannot be saved by a surprising number of violent executions, including one involving a bear trap.”
Another scathing article comes from Indiewire, which says: “Immune to fan response, immune to quality control, and so largely untethered from its place in a shared universe that most of its scenes don’t even seem to take place in the same movie.” , Kraven the Hunter may be very, very bad (and by “could be” I mean “almost objectively is”), but the more relevant point is that It seems like it was made by people who have no idea what today’s audience might consider “good”.
According to the Associated Press, “two good actors –Fred Hechinger as Kraven’s younger brother and Ariana DeBose as his lawyer ally – are left stranded in a film that lurches and slides to an unsatisfying ending. Is Kraven a hero or a villain? Who cares? Without Spider-Man, what’s the point really, right?”.
The two-star review of Empire finds glimmers of light in the action sequences, but shares many of the same complaints: “The narrative is clumsy, unintelligent and doesn’t really know how to take advantage of the fun”they say. “Though the action has a pleasingly brutal quality that most comic book movies don’t have, while there are occasional moments of clever action (a car chase through London, a raid on a monastery) and moments of intentional comedy that they accompany the unintentional ones.”
Rolling Stone magazine sums up the consensus with its verdict that “This crazy project still doesn’t have many reasons to existespecially considering it’s a standalone entry that, aside from a quick glance at a Daily Bugle headline and a mention of the name out loud (the real ones know this), doesn’t make a single reference to Spider-Man.”
“What’s left is something that wants the brand recognition of being a Spider-Man project by proxy, but also wants to give you an extremely violent and bloody vigilante movie that, despite showing Kraven fighting a weak CGI version of another well-known Marvel villain, has nothing to do with those movies. Congratulations on failing twice, we guess?”
In total, Kraven The Hunter currently has a 15 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoesstarting today with its arrival in theaters the public will have the opportunity to make their own decision.
Source: Ambito
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