It’s followed by a high-octane fantasy scene that sees a pirate ship sailing across a desert while fighting off large sand-dwelling monsters. Monster Hunter is precisely the type of big blockbuster spectacle you’d expect, but with a slick, shiny new polish.īased on Capcom’s popular video game series, Monster Hunter opens with a text crawl that explains that behind our world is another, one ruled by lethal creatures. Anderson favors style and action spectacle over everything else, the perfect fit for a video game adaptation.
Audiences likely have a strong understanding of where the filmmaker’s strengths lie, and that’s why they kept showing up at the theater for each new entry. After a six-film franchise that spanned fifteen years, loosely based on Capcom’s popular Resident Evil video game series, you know what to expect from filmmaker Paul W.S.