Monster Hunter

 Recently, me and Noshi sat down behind Netflix to watch this adaption of the famous japanese fantasy video game of the same name.

And I remember the movie being hyped back then, starring Milla Jovovich and Ron Perlman, but bombed at the box office due to the Covid pandemic breaking out.

Well, I guess that wasn't the only reason...

The movie starts with a team of US Rangers looking for companions who are under attack.  When they arrive at the spot, they have disappeared as a strange electrical storm washes over them.  This storm transports them to a strange desert, and soon they are attacked by a huge horned monster, a Diablos.

Loosing some of her team, captain Artemis and her people find refuge in a cave, but are quickly assaulted by giant spider like creatures.  These kill the remainder of her team, but thanks to a local Hunter she gets out.  The Hunter, after an initial misunderstanding, starts training her how to survive in this world.  Using cunning, they kill one of the spider creatures, and using it's poison manage to overcome the Diablos.  They arrive at an oasis, where peacefull dinosaur like beasts roam.

But when these are attacked by a dragon like beast, the Hunter's team arrives and bails them out.  The team's leader has mastered english from previous visitor's from her world, and tells her that a catastrophal [prtal created by an ancient civilisation is at the heart of it.  One of their portal devices, the Sky Tower, is creating these, and the results are that a new catastrophic event is eminent.  To try and shut it down, they have to defeat the dragon and she agrees to help.

 

During the fight, she falls in a portal back to her world, and is recovered by her forces.  But the dragon has followed, and makes quick work of the armoured column.  Her newfound friends have followed her through however, and together they kill the beast.  But as a new one emerges, she decides she have to get back to the other world...

 

 

Okay, so it was action packed and a rumble against okay CGI'd monsters, but to be honest this movie didn`t do me anything, probably one of the worst things I saw this year.  Okay, not as bad as 365 Days, but getting close though.

 

Oh well, it was to be expected as soon as I saw machine guns in a fantasy game adaption I guess...