Monster Hunter (2020)

Monster Hunter (2020)

 3/10

Starring

Milla Jovovich

Tony Jaa

Tip "T. I." Harris

Meagan Good

 

Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson

 

The movie has nice fight scenes whenever the humans take on the monsters. The CGI is cool, considering the $60 million budget they had to work with. That’s all the movie has to offer—other than the fights and CGI, the whole thing was a bore. The story is very glitchy, and the movie itself feels like you're supposed to have known something about what’s going on.

To make it worse, the dialogues are dreadful. Where the dialogues are supposed to fill in the blanks, they instead create more questions. This movie is written, produced, and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, and I believe he got carried away by his fascination with the game he is adapting. Because, me and, I’m sure, other people who have never played or heard of the game are unaware of the origin story of what’s happening.

If you are unaware of the origin story in detail, this movie becomes incoherent. That thing you are supposed to know is the "why" and "how." There’s a new world—how come? Monsters are present there, especially at the gate from that world to ours—where do these monsters come from? Were these monsters created by the first civilization, or were they there from the get-go? Who are these first civilizations?

The plot starts with a group of men in the New World where humans co-exist with large and savage monsters. A hunter gets separated from his team when their ship is attacked by a horned monster.

Later on, in the real world, a group of army soldiers led by Artemis (Milla Jovovich) go in search of some soldiers in the desert when they get sucked into the new world. There, they have to face a monster, which leads to a string of events and the death of all of Artemis’s men.

Artemis meets the hunter while she and her crew are trying to survive. Artemis and the hunter become a pair, as both do not understand each other’s language, and they continue their survival together until they run into another group of people. They join this group to try and stop the portal from opening and allowing people/monsters to move from one world to another.

I know this plot sounds like something’s missing, but I tell you, this is the plot of the movie as it is, so I beg your pardon.

The release of this movie back in 2020 faced a lot of back and forth because of the pandemic. There have been both digital and home video releases, which I would recommend you miss.