Review of Monster Hunter (2020) by Healingtoolbox — 11 Jun 2021

A love letter honoring a video game experience. Critics who say knowing the source game is crucial may be right. This is the closest I can recall a movie has come to the look and feel of playing a AAA video game.

This in itself if a big accomplishment. This not Watchmen; this is not even the two thoughtful imaginative Guillermo del Toro Hellboy movies. This is "can we write a script enabling a movie to replicate a gameplay experience?" That the CGI is AAA is way more than I expected.

As critics note, the action scenes are all thoughtfully presented for clarity and drama. I have been bored with some other WS Anderson movies. This one seems to benefit from the Capcom and Toho Japanese creators contributions and fine tuning.

Mila, Tony and Ron Perlman look and act their their parts. The surprise singing early on does much to humanize the cannon fodder players.