At this stage, the only expectation that the creators of Kraven the Hunter had in mind was to outdo Madame Web, which is to say its most abject movie to date. In this case one can state without any great excitement or morale and say mission accomplished. This however is not to say that Kraven the Hunter does not consist of its share of cringe-worthy one liners, gaping plot holes, sub-par CGI, and under-developed characters. Such low points seem to be a feature, not a bug, of Sony’s half-assed attempt to gorge at the trough of superhero cinema through a bunch of Spider-man villains who forever fail us by not meeting Spider-Man.
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Kraven is portrayed as a sort of anti-hero. People will always remember him as a villain, but the killing of poachers doing horn hunting to save animals or kidnapping of his younger sibling shows that he is heroic. We went in this circle because we are convinced of his transformation from a villain into a hero. In the provided narrative, we are given almost zero insight into how Kraven transitioned from a teenage animal enthusiast to a notorious villain and Spider-Man’s number one hunter. In fact, he was played by Levi Miller once.
At the very least, those who raise young Sergei have failed him as parents. In yet another cheesy plot, Russell Crowe stars as Nikolai, who is Sergei’s (then portrayed by Billy Barratt and later by Fred Hechinger from Gladiator II) father. Nikolai’s thick Russian accent and an annoying scarf are perfect compliments to his son’s coarse affirmation, “You will fear it, so shoot to kill” and “Men kill the legend and become the legend.” He grandiosely offers undesirable parenting advice to his two sons, the likes of which “Let them kill you or don’t be afraid of them.
He considers his wife ‘weak’ and believes it is not worth grieving her suicide. Dmitri is physically weak but Sergei goes out of his way to shield him from their abusively protective father. This strained emotional dynamic seems to be the crux that the film aims to focus on. However, it’s portrayed in the worst ways possible lacking even a basic level of emotional thoughts.
This causes one to like talented director J.C. Chandor (All is Lost A Most Violent Year) to come to what we hope is the good stuff. And it starts very early on during a big game hunt in Ghana, where Nikolai ends up shooting a lion after young and sensitive Sergei was not able to. The furious beast goes full Revenant on Sergei until a preteen Calypso conveniently appears with a healing elixir. The combination of the potion and Sergei’s gash embellished with cg-lion blood means that Sergei now has superpowers. This is just plain dumb.
Sergei is then asked by Nikolai to take over the family business, as the family reoccupies London and never explains what that business is (presumably drugs). Sergei involves himself with changing the future instead of settling for his father’s questionably elaborate criminal legacy, and so he runs to a forest. That said Dmitri was subjected to being left at home in the midst of Nikolai’s attacks. The forest is where he runs off to, that is where he starts on his quest to kill poachers.
There’s no denying that the film went through several release changes. In January 2023, it was supposed to be launched, but the postponement of the two due to the SAG-AFTRA strike seems like an excuse rather than a legitimate reason. The stakes here never seem particularly high and its lack of momentum and its gaps in logic suggest much tinkering to gloss over bigger inadequacies. But there’s only so much that can be done in a film that is not only a mediocre family saga but a clichéd gangster story.
Nikolai’s criminal territory is sought after by Aleksei Sytsevich (“the Rhino” as he refers to himself), as played by the bizarre Alessandro Nivola. His greatest strength is appearing to be a toddler with a huge weighted bag to keep him looking human. When the bag’s contents are taken out, he turns into an enormous reptilian creature. The Rhino is on Kraven’s list of bad guys who’ve earned themselves a violent death and goes out of his way to suggest Calypso (now an adult woman who thanks to Ariana DeBose, is a pompous lawyer in London) as a partner with the sole intention of hunting the baddies.
Some progress is made when Dmitri, now a nightclub pianist, gets abducted. It also gives rise to some interesting tension since Nikolai will not agree to pay the ransom because it would risk making him weak. That means Kraven is the one who has to rescue Dmitri by running around the streets of London in a chase sequence that nearly manages to stand the film on its feet. The action eventually settles down in the forest where Kraven has to single handedly take on the bad guys’ army which, amongst others, features the low rent Marvel comic book enemy known as The Foreigner (played by Christopher Abbott). The Foreiner has the look of a Jazz Age upright bass player and is “not from around anywhere” and his main superpower is to count to three as he is running around at a great speed.
The Foreigner exhibits some unintentional laughter which is amusing enough, however, it should not be regarded as a proper SSU movie without them. The culprits here include some bad dialogue such as Calypso’s, “I don’t like the feel of this….at all!” and Kraven who was so tippy that he traversed the length of a corridor and maneuvered a staircase right behind two armed men without their knowledge. Such cheap vintage superheroics evoke the bad old days of Marvel filmmaking when the only offerings were those of Daredevil, Elektra and Ghost Rider. Chandor is a tough looking muscular director who is ready to boost the action however, when the CGI animal stampede comes pouring in and Aleksei turned to a full Rhino, his strong skills set could not withstand the genre rules.
In case Kraven the Hunter is the last movie of the SSU , it holds true that they prioritized putting out in the game the best one last, though that is a rather conservative way of saying it. It is this scar and the memory of an injury that is T[J]s champagne life but YJ does not quite belong here. Still, his stocks will, quite correctly, continue to rise while Sony can close off a very poor film offering season and focus on their award winning projects about Spider verse and just letting everyone do whatever while Spidey quality led by TM continues It’s exactly the same.
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