Spoilers: Detail peevz
Some of the stuff dun' make sense, like, WHY would the black horn dude chase the hughmahns by first diving underground into SAND, That makes no sense, it's like, oh well, I'll get you faster if I push millions of pounds of sand in front of me. It'd be alrite if it was just ONCE, but they did it repeatedly..
At the end of the movie, WHO is lighting those burners that line the tower walkways, some dude must be keeping it fueled and clearing the ashes. Surely the dragon couldn't be doing it since it's pretty clumsy and just flys around burn'n stuff
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So, to address some stuff, first I will say I am an avid player and fan of the Monster Hunter games, so I may be judging this more harshly than some others who only have the movie as their frame of reference. It's not a
good movie by any stretch, the cinematography is questionable, there's a 2-3 minute segment where they rave with 'LoOk At HoW gOoD hErShEy'S cHoCoLaTe Is' for their corporate sponsor, but there are some occasional fun moments. My main issues come from moments where they either disregard the source material, show off their terrible understanding of the source material, or just flat out ridiculous. There are some things they get right, like some of the large monster behavior -
for example, tp, the "black horned dude" is a monster called a Black Diablos, a female Diablos in heat that becomes extremely aggressive. They're burrowers, which is why she moved through the sand so much and so often, and are actually herbivores. Some of the ways they show it acting aren't consistent with its in-game-universe ecology, but overall it was... ok? It should have gone for more direct attacks than 'play with the puny humans' style of thing, because their main thing is that they're fiercely territorial, but other than that it was passable.Now for my big issues. The way they portrayed weapons and how they work, for example, is completely ridiculous. For example,
there is a point where a character wields a switch axe, and the weapon is treated like a greatsword that shoots waves of fire. Which is... just not accurate at all. Even if you see it as an interpretation of how the switch axes sword-mode phials function, shooting waves of fire is never something that weapon is demonstrated as capable of doing. At most it causes localized explosions around the blade, but that's just me being extra nitpick-y about my personal main weapon. Then they act like the dual blades' Demon Mode is only activated... by the special pose the user does. Not any sort of internal training or discipline to access more power for the tradeoff of stamina consumption, no, just... do the pose then magic happens, I guess.There's a whole lot more I can go into about what this movie did so, so wrong, but that would take a super long post. I just put some gripes here to make it known that I really dislike this movie.
TL;DR they got like 5 things right, the rest is just ridiculous and completely disregards the source material. Not even 'so bad it's good' territory to me, just bad. 0/10
