Monster Hunter
SCORE: 56
I have played a variety of the Monster
Hunter video games over the years. Monster Hunter has a certain mystic
to it. We start in a town and get some gear and then go on missions
hunting the monsters. Along the way we learn about a story, and some
massive big monsters we need to take out. That is what the video games
are all about. The movie just needed to follow that formula.
The Monster Hunter movie could not follow that formula. We have a sand
boat that gets attacked and one of their fighters gets knocked off. Then
we have soldiers from our world somehow get transported to this other
fantasy world. They face off against some monsters and things do not go
so well for them. SPOILER ALERT! Milla Jovovich is the only soldier to
survive.
Monster Hunter loses all sense of purpose and reality at this point. The
man who fell off the ship tries to help the soldiers. Later he kidnaps
one of them and imprisons them. Why? He tries to help only to harm? The
lack of logic here loses me entirely. Once he is given chocolate then he
is all on board with a friendship. I am a firm believer in motives for
characters and Monster Hunter is all over the board.
The duo team up to fight and kill this massive sand dragon. They get to
another area and wind up coming across an even worse monster. A fire
breathing dragon now comes after them. They go to a tower to fight off
this monster and wind up bringing it to our world. This is where they
kill it. It is then decided this portal must be closed. Which is where
this 103 minute long movie ends.
The issues families will have with Monster Hunter are violence, blood,
bad language, lack of attire, enticement to lust, and more. Monster
Hunter is only like the games near the end of the movie. There are some
humorous moments. There are plenty that just make no sense. There are
also numerous convenient plot moments. Why weren't spider eggs put on
the Captain like the Master Seargent?
- Paul
Graphics: 55%
Sound: 60%
Replay/Extras: 55%
Gameplay: 45%
Family Friendly Factor: 65%
System: DVD
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Developer: Screen Gems
Rating: ‘PG-13’ - Parents Strongly Cautioned {Sequences of Creature
Action and Violence Throughout}
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