By Jonathan Klotz
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For years, Sony has tried to build his own cinematographic universe of superheroes of the bad guys of Spider-Man without ever mentioning Spider-Man, and with the exception of Venom, it was a failure after another. Finally, after the release of Kraven the hunterThe experience ended. This final and erroneous film that has been made for apparently no one is now on Netflix, where, curiously, it has become the best film of the biggest streaming service in the world.
Kraven’s first and last hunt
When Kraven the hunter was announced, the fans wondered what story he could adapt, because the biggest story of the villain, “Last Hunt of Kraven”, implies Spider-Man to such an extent that it is impossible to adapt without the wall of wall. It turns out that the film is rather focused on the rise of the anti-hero of Aaron Taylor-Johnson while he rebelled against his father, Nikolai Kravinoff (Russell CroweIn another condemned superhero film), a merciless crime lord, and is caught in a war to control the crimpal of Russia. By her side is Calypso (Ariana Debose), a voodoo priestess who gave superhuman powers Kraven as a young boy, and sometimes his brother, the chameleon (Fred Hechinger).
It is a Sony Standard superhero film which spends too much time establishing the character and not enough to let the public see them in action. Part of the problem with Kraven the hunter is that the character has no real powers, instead of his skills, but the film gives him a superhuman strength based on animals, sustainability and agility to the point that he can make a word of transparent walls. He is not even the only character that the film has trouble adapting; The powers that change the chameleon resemble an original Syfy from 2005, then there are the real bad guys in the film.
One of Sony’s best superhero movies
Kraven the hunter The deepest to this day of the Spide-Rman’s bad list by bringing abroad (Christopher Abbott) on the big screen. This version is an apparently superpowing assassin and not the strategic master of the spy of Wonder comics. Then there is the rhinoceros (Alessandro Nivolana), a perennial joke of a villain who only exists to be beaten, but there, it is a legitimate threat with more intelligence and charm than any of its comic appearances, which works, but it is still rhino as the big bad.
Despite all the strange choices to adapt this strange corner of Spider-Man’s comics to the big screen, Kraven the hunter It is, in his own merits, not a horrible film. Rendered by a note R which allows Aaron Taylor-Johnson Blow the names without name and even bite one nose or two, it is darker and more grumpy than all the other Sony superhero films. It was also the least successful, which finally struck the rooms in December 2024, after a period of more than a year, to earn less money ($ 62 million) than Madame Web.
Compared to Madame Web,, MorbiusAnd Venom: The last dance,, Kraven the hunter is a well -designed film which, shocking for most Sony films, even has action scenes that take place during the day. It is not great, but now that it is withdrawn from the cost of a ticket and driving in the theater, the public is more ready to give it a chance, and who knows, it could even become another classic cult of Aaron Taylor-Johnson in a few years.
Kraven the hunter is now on Netflix.
