Kraven the Hunter
During the lead-up to the discharge of Kraven the Hunter, the movie’s fairly good director JC Chandor (Triple Frontier, Margin Call) and fairly good lead Aaron Taylor Johnson (Tenet, Nosferatu) appeared to plead with audiences to return see the film, promising, implicitly, that it will not be like these different unhealthy Sony Spider-verse motion pictures.
You could guess what occurred subsequent.
Kraven is in actual fact horrible, not less than in response to the early opinions in that put it at a 14% Rotten Tomatoes rating. Sony has stated that Kraven is the top of this try at a villain-centric Spider-Verse, as they transfer on to an precise Spider-Man 4 and extra Into the Spiderverse. But this entire factor as ended as simply the worst run of movies in superhero film historical past. We now have:
- Venom (2018) – 30%
- Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) – 58%
- Morbius (2022) – 15%
- Madame Web (2024) – 11%
- Venom: The Last Dance (2024) – 41%
- Kraven the Hunter (2024) – 14%
Kraven
You can argue that critics have been mistaken about not less than a few the Venom motion pictures, as they have been goofy enjoyable that went unappreciated. But after Venom made a ton of cash, the concept that folks needed extra random Spider-villains with out Spider-Man exhibiting up led to catastrophe. Morbius and Madame Web grew to become world memes, and whereas I used to be dying in theaters with how terriblee Madame Web was, to the purpose the place it was a really enjoyable expertise. The movie, in fact, bombed. Kraven the Hunter, in the meantime, doesn’t even appear foolish sufficient to develop into a meme, and can doubtless simply get ignored with these opinions and little attraction even to Spider-Man followers.
The concept right here was to make Kraven some type of poacher-killing anti-hero, and to arrange Last Hunt, the perfect comedian Kraven story. But this wasn’t even the perfect portrayal of Kraven within the final yr, as PS5’s Spider-Man 2 had the character as a fundamental villain who was a lot nearer to the comics and far more partaking.
It is obvious what Sony’s unique plan right here was, to assemble some type of Sinister Six the place hopefully they might get their very own Spider-Man finally to take them on, be that Maguire, Garfield or Holland. But this could solely go so badly for thus lengthy, and right here we’re, dying by Kraven.
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