Review of Monster Hunter (2020) by Prequarantine — 26 Feb 2021

Disclaimer: I am biased as a huge fan of the Monster Hunter series. I personally enjoyed the movie, but strictly because I got to see some of my favorite monsters on the big screen.

This movie was... definitely a movie. That's about all I can say about it. Every review that mocks its writing? Accurate. The writing is abysmal and I have seen certain Halo fanfics that are comparable in quality. The character design being horrendous? Yes. The monsters themselves being AMAZING? Absolutely the only selling point of the movie. There were multiple times when my friend and I were watching this together that we started asking why an event was happening for the third time in the film. Certain plot points felt like they were put in just to run screen time without having to put more of their presumably expensive CG in. I personally enjoyed watching this movie, but I cannot in good faith recommend it to anybody who is not a die hard fan with hundreds of hours put into the games. It's simply not a good movie.