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Kraven: The Hunter

 

Kraven: The Hunter is a Marvel-Sony project set in their universe about the somewhat known anti-hero. 

Directed by J.C. Chandor, the film has been chopped to pieces and reshot many times over. It becomes very apparent after Kraven's origin story as a teen. This is probably best put to the fault of Uncharted and Men in Black: International writer: Art Marcum. Most of his movies are poor and he was carried through Iron Man with Favreau.

I feel bad for Aaron Taylor-Johnson as I've enjoyed him in Kick-Ass and Godzilla, but much like his character in Avengers: Age of Ultron, I doubt we'll see them again. Ariana DeBose does her best with what was given to her. Her character is believable and her acting shows a lot of beauty and strength despite the poor writing. 

Fred Hechinger plays Chameleon and is probably the worst part of the film. Just like how his father in the movie picks on him, he looks like the type of person who was picked on as a child. He played Emperor Caracalla in Gladiator II and his acting hasn't improved at all. 

The film has a lot of writing flaws and looks like it was just pushed out so they can recoup some of their losses on this flop. Result: C-


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