Kraven the Hunter
Gopinath Rajendran
The Hindu
The audience is hunted in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe film
The dubbing is off, the editing is choppy and the VFX unimpressive; the film’s biggest takeaway is Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who carries it on his massive shoulders
A long, icy road is the first shot of Kraven the Hunter, the sixth film in the infamous Sony’s Spider-Man Universe (SSU). Given how all the other films, except the Venom movies, turned out to be fiascos, the very first shot of Kraven felt like a metaphor for the studio’s long and trying journey with Marvel’s IPs. After all, it’s not a lot to work with when you only have characters commonly associated with Spider-Man and you cannot even use the friendly neighbourhood superhero. Despite being far better than Morbius and Madame Web, Sony’s latest and possibly final superhero outing, Kraven the Hunter, still misses its mark by miles.