Better Never than Late on "Kraven the Hunter"
/I tend to enjoy movies that focus on antiheroes. I like these for some reason. Maybe it is the origin of how they came to be antiheroes or villains. Maybe it is the fact that these movies are a little more adult. Maybe I just enjoy a downer of a story. Anyway, with the influx of so many superhero movies, I tend to veer towards the antihero stuff.
With this being said, I recently watched "Kraven the Hunter". I read all the bad reviews. I saw what people were saying. I saw how it came and went from the theaters in a matter of days. None of that stopped me. I decided I still wanted to see the movie. I also enjoy Aaron Taylor Johnson. He seems to be a solid actor and usually picks good roles. I thought of all of this and made the incorrect decision to watch this horrible movie.
That's the honest truth. The critics, my friends and the movie theaters were all right. This movie was very, very, very bad. I wish I had listened to everyone else on this one. From the start I should have known. This movie was so boring. The whole idea of going back to when they were kids did not work for me. It was cliche after cliche. I get it, your dad is a bad guy. He's a drug dealer. He did shady stuff to your mom. He is a villain. But they just kept hammering it home. That was the first hour of the movie. I actually found myself dozing off. That shouldn't be the case for an antihero/action movie. I should never "rest my eyes" during a movie like this. They also take their best actor, Taylor Johnson, off screen the whole time. This movie is slightly over two hours long, and the main character is not even in the first hour. We don't see "Kraven", we get Sergei, who is boring as hell. And when we do get Kraven, it isn't much more fun. Sure, there's a few okay enough fight scenes, but they didn't last that long. They had this great setup with Kraven's brother being kidnapped, but it looked like the same scene being used over and over again. Taylor Johnson couldn't keep an accent that he wanted to use throughout the movie. At times he was a New Yorker. At others, he was English. And I think I even heard a bit of an Australian voice in there. His brother's voice was American when he was an adult, but Russian when he was a kid. Russell Crowe kept the Russian accent throughout, but Russell Crowe is a reliable actor. The lady that played Calypso had an American accent the whole time, but she acted like she didn't want to be in this movie at all. You could tell she knew this was a pile of trash.
I think the thing that made me dislike this movie so much was the poor execution of what could have been a very cool story. This felt thrown together. It had a major pandemic feel to it. I should have suspected it was going to be bad due to the constant pushback of the release day. There were so many signs to this movie being bad but I ignored them all. I decided I had to watch and that was a bad choice on my end.
Don't watch this movie. It is bad. It's not fun bad either, it is just bad bad. Don't make the same mistake I did. Skip "Kraven the Hunter". You'll thank me later.
Ty
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