‘Kraven The Hunter’ is getting destroyed by critics: “Strange and sloppy”

nme.com:

Kraven The Hunter, the latest movie adaptation of a Marvel Comics character, is getting a kicking from critics ahead of its release.The film stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the title character, a big-game hunter who is set on a path of vengeance as the result of a complex relationship with his father, playing by Russell Crowe.Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) co-stars as Calypso Ezili, a voodoo priestess and Kraven’s love interest and the film is directed by J.C.

Chandor (Margin Call, A Most Violent Year).Kraven The Hunter is the sixth instalment in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, following on from the three Venom films, Morbius and Madame Web.

Like many of its predecessors in the franchise, however, it is getting a rough ride from the critics ahead of its cinematic release on Friday (December 13).In a scathing one-star review, The Independent wrote: “Farewell, Sony’s Spider-Manless Spider-Man universe.

You died like you lived: strange and sloppy… the script is profoundly scattered, and there’s such a ruthless amount of re-recorded dialogue inserted that there’s little cohesion between or even within scenes.