So confused here. HOLY SNAP, that was Tony Jaa? I thought he looked familiar I really need to watch more of his modern movies. This movie is so weird. First of all I was laughing when I said they were going to do that thing where someone from the real world lands in a fantasy realm. Why? It feels like the laziest thing of all time? Just make characters IN that world. Is this what modern fantasy films are all going to be? Portal movies? Everything doesn't have to be what if this fantasy world was Narnia.
If everyone is going to die at least it wasn't as bad as watching everyone die in Skyline or Rogue. This was a little better. But it's still the same lazy cast of people you can barely separate dying in the first half of the first act. I saw a comment mentioning the choreography and it is fair decent but the editing is atrocious. I at one point saw FOUR edits for someone falling to the ground. Like do you know who Milla Jovovich is? She can handle a fight scene why film it like you're filming a rapper fighting (Will Smith, Queen Latifa). It's not necessary. And her partner of Tony freaking Jaa. Forget handling a fight scene. Jaa could probably handle a real fight. This makes the editing in the fight scene even worse.
There's a thing in two language movies that I always find interesting. The English speaking one always talks. Milla talks a lot just casual conversation while Jaa's character is just silent most of the time occasionally dropping in a few words in his language or when he learns an English word. At least Milla does technically learn some of his language too. Mostly monster names but still I'll count it. I do kinda feel like a hardened Warrior vs an injured Ranger should have had a stronger dynamic in favor of the hardened Warrior who knows the area. But at least he put up a good fight.
I don't know anything about the Monster Hunter franchise but I can see it's clearly about hunting beasts and using their pieces to make weapons to hunt bigger beasts. Honestly it's a hard thing to translate and it did okay with that. It would have gone better without less of the characters fighting and trying to bond so hard. Heck just make everyone speak English and focus on the hunting imo. In act three we meet new characters like Ron Pealman who can speak English because he... studied a language no one speaks. Has the idioms down right and everything. It's weird.
I think MH works best when it's Monster Hunting. But there's so much Portal Fantasy World that they have to squeeze in that it pushes out the Monster Hunting. If this wasn't a portal movie the world could have been more likely, there would have been a better focus on how monsters hunt monsters. I wouldn't have to wonder how she took a carapace and turned it into a flak vest with no tools. And I wouldn't have been shocked by the anthropomorphic cat.
Review by wolfkinBlockedParent2021-02-21T15:37:47Z
"What", he said confusedly?
So confused here. HOLY SNAP, that was Tony Jaa? I thought he looked familiar I really need to watch more of his modern movies. This movie is so weird. First of all I was laughing when I said they were going to do that thing where someone from the real world lands in a fantasy realm. Why? It feels like the laziest thing of all time? Just make characters IN that world. Is this what modern fantasy films are all going to be? Portal movies? Everything doesn't have to be what if this fantasy world was Narnia.
If everyone is going to die at least it wasn't as bad as watching everyone die in Skyline or Rogue. This was a little better. But it's still the same lazy cast of people you can barely separate dying in the first half of the first act. I saw a comment mentioning the choreography and it is fair decent but the editing is atrocious. I at one point saw FOUR edits for someone falling to the ground. Like do you know who Milla Jovovich is? She can handle a fight scene why film it like you're filming a rapper fighting (Will Smith, Queen Latifa). It's not necessary. And her partner of Tony freaking Jaa. Forget handling a fight scene. Jaa could probably handle a real fight. This makes the editing in the fight scene even worse.
There's a thing in two language movies that I always find interesting. The English speaking one always talks. Milla talks a lot just casual conversation while Jaa's character is just silent most of the time occasionally dropping in a few words in his language or when he learns an English word. At least Milla does technically learn some of his language too. Mostly monster names but still I'll count it. I do kinda feel like a hardened Warrior vs an injured Ranger should have had a stronger dynamic in favor of the hardened Warrior who knows the area. But at least he put up a good fight.
I don't know anything about the Monster Hunter franchise but I can see it's clearly about hunting beasts and using their pieces to make weapons to hunt bigger beasts. Honestly it's a hard thing to translate and it did okay with that. It would have gone better without less of the characters fighting and trying to bond so hard. Heck just make everyone speak English and focus on the hunting imo. In act three we meet new characters like Ron Pealman who can speak English because he... studied a language no one speaks. Has the idioms down right and everything. It's weird.
I think MH works best when it's Monster Hunting. But there's so much Portal Fantasy World that they have to squeeze in that it pushes out the Monster Hunting. If this wasn't a portal movie the world could have been more likely, there would have been a better focus on how monsters hunt monsters. I wouldn't have to wonder how she took a carapace and turned it into a flak vest with no tools. And I wouldn't have been shocked by the anthropomorphic cat.