2020 · action · fantasy · adventure
Monster Hunter
Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson1h 43m2020
A portal transports Cpt. Artemis and an elite unit of soldiers to a strange world where powerful monsters rule with deadly ferocity. Faced with relentless danger, the team encounters a mysterious hunter who may be their only hope to find a way home.
Our read: Monster Hunter (2020) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · fantasy · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- epic-stakes
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How Monster Hunter feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want video-game monster fights with minimal story and maximum creature chaos.”
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