Critics give verdict on 'Kraven The Hunter'

The critics seemingly hunted Sony's latest superhero film, Kraven The Hunter, as they tore it into pieces with scathing blows from their pens.

According to reviews, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, coming after a break of nearly a decade from the superhero films — the last time he appeared in Avengers: Age of Ultron — was unable to lift the movie's dull screenplay, 

The Independent, in a brutal one-star review, 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. Requiescat in pace, Sony’s Marvel universe – you really made people’s brains hurt.”

Indiewire agreed, writing, “Immune to fan response, impervious to quality control, and so broadly unencumbered by its place in a shared universe that most of its scenes don’t even feel like they take place in the same film, Kraven the Hunter might be very, very bad (and by “might be” I mean “almost objectively is”), but the more relevant point is that it feels like it was made by people who have no idea what today’s audiences might consider as “good.”

Associated Press meanwhile penned that “two good actors – Fred Hechinger as Kraven’s younger brother and Ariana DeBose as his lawyer-ally – are left marooned in a movie that tumbles and slips to an unsatisfactory end. Is Kraven a hero or a villain? Who cares? Without Spider-Man, what’s really the point, right?”

Kraven The Hunter, which has a 15 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, will be released in theatres on December 13.