Statistically, you probably haven’t seen the Monster Hunter movie, probably because it came out at exactly the wrong time. Paul W.S. Anderson’s adaptation of Capcom’s video game series was released in December 2020, during a period where many people were still staying home rather than going to the theaters. It’s one of the only box-office disappointments of Anderson’s career, but it’s one of his best collaborations with Milla Jovovich — an epic genre mashup that effectively delivers on the scale and danger of the games.
The setup is essentially an isekai: Captain Artemis (Jovovich) leads a U.N. Joint Security Operations team sent to investigate a mysterious disappearance in the desert, before being transported to a fantastical world where they encounter many monsters and eventually an ally called The Hunter (Tony Jaa). There’s also a positively feral Ron Perlman, closer to his Beauty and the Beast look than anything he has done
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