Review of Monster Hunter (2020) by Umaumai — 24 Mar 2021

Holy S@#t! This movie is PG-13?! The MPAA needs to get its priorities straight. There are some horrific, violent images in the first 20 minutes of this movie very much not suited for young eyes. At one point I wasn’t sure if there was going to be a murder suicide on screen.

That aside, I really liked this movie. If you’re a fan of Ron Perlman and Milla Jovovich they don’t disappoint here. I just wish Ron had more screen time. While it is based on the video games of the same name, the story and visuals are a fantasy hodgepodge of “Pitch Black,” “Dune,” “Alien” with a touch of “Tremors” and several other films.

While that sounds disastrous there is so much that it can claim its own and kept the movie feeling fresh. Well, as fresh as a Paul W. S. Anderson film can be. So many times I couldn’t quite tell where it was going, and while that’s great I also felt like it was over before it had really started.

My one complaint is all of the electronic parts in the score. The the sequenced synthesizers just didn’t fit the overall aesthetic of the movie. They felt like they were invoking a more “Sci-Fi” feel.

More traditional orchestrations would have been better.