Kraven the Hunter (2019) - Movie Review

Kraven the Hunter - Dear Sony, Give Up

Rating - 1/10

"It's Kraven time!"

    Kraven the Hunter is another swing and a miss from Sony’s desperate attempt to create a Spider-Man villain universe without Spider-Man. The result is a movie so misguided that it becomes unintentionally funny in places, but not enough to make it worth sitting through. It is the kind of film that mistakes loud action and CGI blood for grit, and thinks that throwing animal roars over every fight scene somehow makes it cool. Spoiler alert: it does not.

    Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who is normally solid in other roles, feels completely miscast as Kraven. The movie strips away everything that makes the comic version of the character interesting. Instead of being a complex, driven hunter obsessed with proving himself against Spider-Man, we get a weird animal-powered antihero who can roar like a lion and sniff the air like a dog. It is absurd in all the wrong ways, and it takes a potentially fascinating villain and turns him into a joke.

    The action is a blur of fake-looking CGI and awkward choreography. The blood splatters are cartoonish, the camera never sits still, and the few fight scenes that could have been entertaining are ruined by terrible editing. It is hard to tell if the movie wants to be dark and serious or self-aware and campy, because it fails to land either tone.

    What makes it even worse is the wasted potential. Kraven is a classic Spider-Man villain, one of the most memorable in the comics. A proper adaptation of Kraven’s Last Hunt could have been incredible, but instead, this movie feels like a knockoff superhero film from the early 2000s that somehow got released in 2025. It is lifeless, confused, and painfully unfunny.

    The only enjoyment comes from laughing at how bad it is, just be sure you've completely shut off your brain. Kraven the Hunter is a complete misfire, another embarrassing entry in Sony’s Spider-Man-less Spider-Man universe. When your audience walks away thinking the funniest thing about your film is its existence, you know the hunt is officially over.

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