Monster Hunter has hit Indian screens.Paul WS Anderson’s Monster Hunter has finally hit screens. The film, starring the director’s wife and actor Milla Jovovich in the lead, is based on Capcom’s video-game franchise of the same name.
In the movie, a group of US marines are pulled into another world by way of a portal. The new world, in which the video-games are set, is populated by giant monsters, and they spot a ‘hunter’ (Tony Jaa) who kills the said monsters. The ‘hunter’ eventually helps them survive.
Tip “T. I.” Harris, Meagan Good, Diego Boneta, Josh Helman, Jin Au-Yeung and Ron Perlman also star in Monster Hunter.
The trailers have promised a spectacular, escapist big screen, 100-odd minute experience that likely would not tax your brain.
Milla Jovovich earlier spoke to indianexpress.com about her character Natalie Artemis. She said, “Artemis is a team member. She’s potentially a mom and wife. She is kind of every woman in a sense, albeit a strong, powerful woman.”
Monster Hunter has received mixed reviews, with a 49 per cent score at Rotten Tomatoes. The critical consensus reads, “Monster Hunter is mostly a mindless blur of action, held together by the slenderest threads of dialogue and plot — and exactly what many viewers will be looking for.”
Tony Jaa took to Instagram to share photos from Monster Hunter sets. He captioned the photos, "Great memories from monster hunter family 😂."
Milla Jovovich shared some behind the scenes photos and videos from the sets of Monster Hunter.
Milla Jovovich shared a short clip from her training days.
Paul WS Anderson earlier discussed the familiarity of movie monsters like King Kong, Godzilla and T-Rex. In an interview with indianexpress.com, he said while they are iconic monsters, we have already seen them several times before. "To see something like the Diablos or Nerscylla [In Monster Hunter] — these are radically new designs of incredible creatures. And immediately to me, the game felt obviously very, very cinematic. And with the movie, I wanted to recapture my feeling of playing the game for the very first time. This sense of wonder where you go, ‘Oh my God, what an amazing world.’"
Paul WS Anderson, in an interview with indianexpress.com, promised a breathtaking big-screen experience for anybody who chooses to go watch the film in theatres. He said, "I think we’ve created a whole new world to immerse an audience. And our world is undergoing such challenges now, I think to be immersed in a different world for a couple of hours as a kind of fun thing to offer people."
The #MonsterHunt has begun.
Sony Pictures India shared a birthday wish for the actor on their Twitter page.
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