MONSTER HUNTER (2020) - A Goofy Ass Video Game Movie 

Imagine being handed the Monster Hunter IP and the story you come up with is to isekai your wife as a US army.

I have several gripes with this film, but my biggest one is how they used gore magala. Gore magala was introduced in MH4U, a game with a plot that pretty much completely centers around this monster. The reason why is because it sheds a virus known as the frenzy virus, which can drive monsters crazy, making them extremely dangerous. This could've made for an AMAZING plot. A young hunter just starting out, learning what it means to be a hunter while combatting the virus as she searches for its source, movie ending with a showdown between her and a freshly molted shagaru magala. But no. We got a fucking isekai.

“Rathalos is Capcom’s Pikachu.” Is how I would explain Rathalos.

Note that the switch axe didn't turn into a sword, but released a shockwave like a charge blade

This movie would have been most accurate if a HR 999 hunter joined the party and wiped the floor with the monster, and pranced on its dead body while the hunter and artemis carved it for parts.

I do think it's kinda cute that the guy accepted the role cause his son wanted him to. It's neat.

A big part of what I've seen from Monster Hunter is also the variety and beauty of the environments... So, obviously, the whole movie took place in... The desert... Some dark caves... And a bleak rocky place also in the dark. Real exciting choices, Paul Anderson. Three different kinds of rock.

how the hell does this guy keep getting the film rights for every big franchise?

The useless fact I liked the most about the movie is the fact they remembered Nerscylla had two types of venom (Jaws have damaging venom and stinger has sleeping venom) But then they decided to use base Nerscylla instead of the one that literally lives in the desert

The interdimensional angle killed this for me. The monsters, armor, and weapons pulled straight from Monster Hunter World look fantastic. The movie should've just focused on a group of hunters doing progressively more dangerous hunts. Maybe they discover some insane threat creeping towards their village that they've gotta deal with.

I will always be astounded by the fact that they haven't made a monster of the week type show for it.

The “fight” with Artemis and the hunter, who is actually the field team leader meaning he is a seasoned hunter and not some caveman like the movie depicts him, is by far the silliest thing. Monster hunter humans are literal super humans, they swing hilariously large weapons like they’re featherweight, tank some anime super moves and shrug them off, and have zero fall damage. How the HELL did Artemis even land a single hit on the field team leader? Lmao

The whole teleportation thing is so strange to me, even The Witcher crossover made a tiny bit more sense lol

They really made the hunter into a caveman. They literally have flying ships. I'm pretty sure they would know what a dam chocolate is. Also that is the nicest Rathalos, I'm surprised it's not flying in the air 80% of the time and barraging them with fireballs. Is that a gore magala? Okay I appreciate the ending, because it would have just ended with their death.

The "belt" of the minigun is not supposed to move, its actually a "feed chute" with the belt moving inside it. Also RPG is pretty commonly used referring to any kind of rocket launcher system (Rocket Propelled Grenade), not just the one weapon that actually has the name officially. I know this is nerdy stuff but I thought I would mention it.

Things I've noticed from the movie that are different from the game: 1. Rathalos is huge in the movie 2. Monster Armor is too weak 3. Only 1 Palico is seen in the movie 4. The main lobby absolutely different

The interdimensional thing feels similar to when humans have to be the main characters in movies like Transformers or Godzilla. Hollywood thinks we need something very similar to ourselves to relate to so they introduce army soldiers from our world going to the Monster Hunter world instead of a movie just being about that world by itself.

8:23 is actually perfectly accurate. Black Diablos has those stupid slidey moves, where she bursts out of the ground/walls and just slides away for ages, so even if you manage to dodge or block you have to run after her.

In the game itself, they had a collab quest where you actually play as Artemis, and it turns out the reason the Admiral knows English is because after the end of the movie, Artemis ends up In the past before the events of the movie. She apparently was taking notes on the monster hunter language and was able to totally decipher it. She wrote it down and gave it to the admiral and finally went home after. So apparently she's a master linguist too lmao

Here's something funny. I have a DVD of the movie and under the special features menu there is a "the making of" video and Paul w.s Anderson was talking about the monsters In the film, points out cephalos (which was only in the movie for like 5 seconds) and calls it a remobra. These two monsters have nothing to do with each other and it just shows that they had little to no clue about the source material.

Great game series, but this movie is like a weird fever dream. It’s like this movie was made by someone who heard about Monster Hunter through a wall. A thick wall.

It’s so odd that the movie is filled with inaccuracies, but still somehow integrated The Ancient Tower, which is pretty rarely talked about in game with only a few locations near or on the tower. I mean it’s not powered by lava or anything or creates storms, it’s pretty much just a dead ancient structure where powerful monsters tend to hang out.

Ron Pearlman is the weirdest casting choice that seems to be miscasted in a lot of movies

Thank you for reviewing this movie. Everytime I think of this movie I pop a blood vessel with how angry it makes me. I am a die hard MH fan

12:30 no fall damage. Staying faithful to the game 😆

Just one note. The /choc-lat/ /choc-o-lat/ pronunciation bit is accurate. Lots of people who don't speak English as a first language, or use consonant clusters ('cl' 'bl' 'fr' for example) will often insert a vowel sound between the cluster better fit the pronunciation models they grew up with, regardless of wether they have read the word or not. I used to teach English in Vietnam and the kids would always say "balu" instead of "blue". Kids too young to read, even. That's just one example.

Paul W. S. Anderson movies are like those weird dreams you have, where you're walking down the street when suddenly Mila Jovovich is being punched to death by a gorilla, but even though she's basically mush at this point, she gets up with no injuries and suplexes the gorilla into a volcano. Then suddenly, for no reason, Donald Trump in a tutu riding a unicorn.

My god the amount of inaccuracies and wasted opportunities actually deals psychological damage to me. alrighty where do i start... -Why did Black diablos attack them unprovoked (imagine loading into the wildspire waste and black diablos just hunts you down the moment you leave the camp) -why did it need to be a black diablos -what does it feed on, the entire desert in that scene is cactus free -Why was it a regular Nerscylla instead of the Shrouded one that literally lives in the Dunes -Why did it die in two hits from a bone greatsword -What kind of lucky aim or deadeye does "The hunter" have -why the random infighting -Why do they not utilize the diablos carcass whatsoever -Why is there a random Rathalos in the desert -Why is rathalos attacking them unprovoked -As mentioned, Rathalos and his weaknesses and placing him in a literal thunderstorm -Fire weapon vs Fire Monster (homie is the type of guy to bring blast against Alatreon) -Rathalos not biting down on Artemis' hands in his jaw -Rathalos not fireballing her -Why is the seemingly random teleport so consistant -military spawncamping artemis' return -Military mounted LMGs and Explosive weapons dealing no damage to the Monsters... need i mention the Light and heavy bowguns... specifically the heavy bowguns Wyvernheart Ammo -Rathalos literally blowing up randomly (The waste of potential material) -Rathalos surviving having all of its inner organs burst into flame -The inconsistant dimensional travel being awfully consistant again -Rathalos blowing up a second time kills it for some reason -The Dimensional travel being awfully consistant for the third time -noone cares about the lives of the second military group that had been lost -Gore Magala showing up at the tower with no explanation whatsoever -The plot of Gore magala not even mentioned in the slightest -The movie ending on a standoff between the cast and gore magala should i have mentioned anything that had been answered in the movie or missed something, please do correct me in the comments

Hi Elvis. Just so you're aware, the XM134 minigun uses an encased ammunition feed tube, the rounds are rapidly moving through that linkage you see. RU-vid any video of a minigun firing and you'll see the 'hose' the ammo moves through. The gun consumes ammo so quickly that it needs to have a static feeding position or it would immediately jam or break the round linkage.

My biggest complaint is the environment and the monsters, monster hunter literally has some of the most creative environments like the rotten vale. A literal ecosystem made from the corpses of others monsters. Yet they chose a basic desert with like three monsters. None of the monsters in the film even interact with each other, which was a core mechanic in the last monster hunter game 😭. They could’ve at least put a barroth or a kulu ya-ku in there man

While the meowscular chef in MHW was a palico in the past (the admirals palico) not all of them are palicos, palico means those cats that hunt with the hunters, the general subrace is called felyne while the main race is Lynian. Melynx are also Lynians but the black ones. Also the Chakalakas and other similar creatures in MHW are also Lynians.

Paul Anderson making PVZ Movie: "insert his wife as the main unrelated character"

The fact that she's still alive, after so many deadly situations, is actually canon in Monster Hunter games, where hunters only get knocked out instead of dying in the most gruesome ways. That doesn't explain the other soldiers' deaths, but who am I to criticize such a masterpiece?!

I honestly couldnt stop laughing at the video game adaptations that Paul W.S Anderson may fuck up next with Milla Jovovich lmao

11:34 No, he has a Power Phial Switch Axe, the flames are just an indication of the explosion which is not fire but RAW based not unlike an Impact Phial Charge Blade will have lighting blasts but is not thunder element. The only weird thing here is that he was somehow able to use an Amped Elemental Discharge from the Charge Blade with a Switch Axe. That really makes no sense so i assume Anderson just mistook one weapon for the other because both have Axe mode.

“Swing them around like paper” Every great sword main:”Should we tell him?”

This is why prominent fans of series should be asked to take part in the scripting process for game adaptations. I know this would never happen but little things like including that jingle when cooking the meat like you mentioned in the video would go a long way.

When my grandma told me this movie was awesome.... I knew it was going to be interesting... watched it with her and I told her I loved it. I couldn't let her down. Lol. I don't understand why she loves this movie, I tried to explain to her the game and I just gave up lmao. Great video brother.

3:30 That really is the kind of stuff we would do in a combat situation. Singing cadence is just something that we do, regardless of how dire the situation might be.

"The game where people wield this ridiculously sized weapons and fly around like they're made of paper" Now hold on a minute. They *look* like that only when you're good at the game, put the Greatsword in any newbie's hands and it's going to be the exactly like anchor it looks like.

I think the military thing could work. Have like 4 soldiers go in, they waste their ammunition shooting at every strange creature they see, unsure wether it's hostile or not. Their rations get burned, their ammo spend, they run into a hunter that leads them to a village, and the soldiers have to start working on becoming proper hunters, using stealth, tactics, and weapons from this strange new world. Eventualy there is a rift in the group, as two of the hunters want to stay in this fantastical almost-magical realm but the others either have family or don't want to waste the time and effort they put into their career to be for nothing. and they split up to go and do their own thing until the latter group discovers how to go back but lacking the manpower to defeat the big af monster in front of the tower so they make a formal request to the hunters guild for help and they all team up for one last epic battle before they separate again, but this time on good terms.

Y'know, the whole "bringing modern weaponry into video games" trope can be pretty good if executed decently. It's just a shame that they pick the absolute worst fanfiction writers off of something like Wattpad or AO3 to write their scripts.

Just for a short little clarification: that belt on the machinegun we're seeing isn't the actual belt, and it's more just a feeding guide so that the belts don't get tangled up while they dangle freely like what we would see with SAWs.

5:52 He has been trying to save them the whole time and they keep shooting at him. Artemis has her knife out, why the Hell wouldn't he hold her at knife point so she'll wait a second before attacking him further?

This movie was so bad, Capcom discontinued the event quests tied to this movie in only a few months.

I watched this with my brother who plays World and Rise, my dad who knows nothing about MH but likes dumb action movies and loves Tony Jaa, we all had big goofy grins on our faces. It was dumb fun (especially after a few drinks) with some good monster gore. Considering I just came from playing Monster Hunter Stories Wings of Ruin which was all about “monsters are our friends :)” and “monsters injure people they don’t kill them (on screen)” so seeing some pretty gruesome gore was a bit shocking but kind of hilarious.

10:51 If you have played the games, this is a very weird point. Since when do the characters in Moster Hunter ever get tired by walking? Even if you sprint the whole way, it takes like 3 seconds before they catch their breath back up. And Artemis is military, she also must be conditioned to withstand long marches

4:30 Elvis, it looks like the belt has a guard over the actual ammo. It's to prevent it getting caught on something while being fed into mini gun at the high speeds.

It makes sense for the Hunter holding her at knifepoint, considering they shot at him first without provocation, so now he has to prevent that the second time around

As a Monster Hunter fan, holy shit was this a torturous ride lmao Even if you’re not a fan of the series, you still have a bad time playing this But AS a fan? Holy shit Dark day as an MH fan

As an insect glaive main, the worst part about this movie is that Tony Jaa uses a glaive without a kinsect. Also the Admiral performs an SAED with a switchaxe.

That piece going to the chain gun isnt the ammo, the ammo moved through it and its basically a cover to keep the ammo straight and un-kinked as it goes into the gun

So first you said that they just started shooting at Tony Jaa's character without cause, which I agree. But then you called him out for holding someone at knife point when his last interaction with her group, they were the aggressors. So, of course, he'd proceed with caution, seeing that she's armed. Makes sense.

The gun at 4:26 doesn't take belts like a normal mechanical belt fed gun would. It's a mini gun, the "belt" you see is more of a bullet feeding strip where bullets slide thru. The guns firing rate is too high that using regular loose belts would jam it or pre-detonate a round 😵

"They're surrounded by way more substantial threats, it made no sense of them to bicker with each other." This is pretty much what I was thinking the entirety of the Walking Dead series.

I'm actually surprised they got a couple of things right. Someone involved in the production must at least have played through some 1✰ quests

Well, at least they got Diablos' feet right after Capcom told them they were originally modeled wrong, of course Also, mh is filled with tons of interesting designs, blending fantasy and realism in amazing ways, yet they decided on: Horn Dragon - Big Spider - Fire Dragon - Weird Dragon. Of course, Rathalos is atleast understandable, being the Pikachu of the series, but they could have tried more to show the fantastic variety in the monsters

Artemis not hitting the stampede is the most game accurate scene in this movie. DB mains are definitely like that.

I hope Sony does a Monster Hunter movie reboot with Eli Roth directing and writing, featuring Henry Cavill, Tom Hardy, & Angelina Jolie. Give it a 90 million dollar budget.

one of my small nitpicks is ironically how absolutely massive they made some of the monsters look, like rathalos is a large monster, but this thing is like triple the size of a game rathalos

4:49 nitpick the nitpick, the M72 LAW is an RPG. It's just not specifically *that* RPG, as in the RPG-7. Other anti-tank rocket propelled grenade launchers are still referred to as RPGs. Many countries have some variant of RPG to equip infantry with anti-armor capability, such as the SMAW in the US, the Panzerfaust 3 from Germany, or pretty much any shoulder-fired rocket-based anti-armor weapon.

Took some balls teasing the plague dragon at the end in 2020

My mom rented this movie for my whole family to watch. We thought it was some cool action movie for all ages but we were wrong. When it got to the part where that guy had eggs in his stomach we had to turn it off but I’m pretty sure my younger siblings are still emotionally scarred from it.

Whats weird is that they build it up that artimes is strong and badass and she doesnt even kill the rathalos, she also doesnt use the greatsword (which she is seen using in promo material)

If they ever did a remake/remaster of dino crisis, i could 100% see a dino crisis movie starring Mila Jovavich

Me and my girl at the time went to go watch this in theaters and I literally passed tf out from boredom before the middle of the movie and I don’t remember a thing from it 😭

Plz don't ever stop this content! Im loving it 😂

so pretty sure on this, but i could barely see it - but the bullets "not feeding" through the weapons system....that looked like a sand covering device and it also helps stops jamming.

Adding Gore Magala at the end cause they thought they'd get a sequel. Cute.

I'm so happy to hear Elvis actually loves the MH games. Im a big fan of the series aswell and knowing that one of my favs youtubers actually likes the games is amazing to me.

I actually enjoyed watching this after hundreds of hours in ultimate and world it was a laugh and good fun to watch

Completely unrelated, but not all cats in Monster Hunter are Palicoes. The species is called Felyne and Palicoes are just Felynes who've trained to go on hunts and fight monsters.

Never expected Elvis the Alien himself, to review this movie!

As a massive fan boy of the mh series for over 12 years I was actually disappointed that it was a live action movie adaptation. They should've made a short anime series based solely on a games story like 4u's main story and its high rank story.

I was so confused that they decided to take eachother prisoner. Well, I can why the hunter would take her prisoner, after all, they immediately tried to kill him when they saw him. But why would she take him prisoner? He seems to know what's up with the giant monsters that killed her team, you'd think she'd want some help and answers about the giant spiders and Diablos.

I honestly would like to see Milla do a cameo in a game. That would honestly be really funny.

4:45 ish, the "belt" on the minigun is meant to be stationary. What you are seeing is a guard, not the actual ammo. It's meant to guard sand and debris from getting into the internals of the firearm

'There are so many more substatial threats around them, it makes no sense that they would fight each other.' The most realistic part of the movie.

Ah yes, interdimensional water. Can't drink water in Mexico without your insides trying to become your outsides, but that magic interdimensional water in monster world has zero bacteria or parasites in it.

What I think is ridiculous is they had the whole Monster Hunter IP, and yet based the movie on a non canon crossover mission in metal gear: peacewalker where snake gets transported to monster hunter.

7:15 that part is actually pretty accurate, people not knowing english will repeat words making letters you didnt say

The most annoying thing about this movie is that Gore Magala, my favorite monster in the series, is teased at the end and they dont even get to fight it

The ending pissed me off so much, just as the film starts to finally feel like monster hunter it just abruptly ends

The dumbest parts of this movie was not just the dumb language barrier between the hunter and Artemis, but also how they turned the world of Monster Hunter into this Dark and Gritty world and everyones like “the monsters outnumber us and we’re constantly fighting for our lives” when normally everyone in Monster Hunter is pretty happy and just enjoyed hunting monsters. Like yeah the world is dangerous and theres some world ending shit out there, but everyones pretty stoic and optimistic most of the time regardless.

I love MonHun but this movie takes a dump all over the world building especially in the first few minutes alone. Love seeing people rip it to shreds. Gore Magala you deserved so much better even as a post credits cameo.

They're military, the military is issued special chocolate that Hershey makes specifically for soldiers deployed to hot climates. You can actually tell just looking at it that it actually is military chocolate too, so that is actually a really cool detail they included.

I think the funniest thing about the Monster Hunter series is that while not the most effective mode of combat you can have one of those rain sticks and just shake it back and forth and have a bug attack and kill the monsters for you, much less use military grade machine guns and guns which they definitely have in the Monster Hunter world because that's two of the classes of weapons you can make

when i saw the first 5 minutes of this movie on Netflix, i knew i needed to watch the full movie so i can start watching reviews destroying the movie. I feel sad for those who paid a movie a theater to watch it. when they put dimension travelling, i knew i was watching a comedy movie.

Making a documentary film about each monsters would.still be more entertaining

I think it's incredibly funny that the Rathalos fight in FFXIV is more accurate to how Monster Hunter works than the actual Monster Hunter movie

When he said that they were gonna get the nerscylla to sting the diablos I got excited because thought the was gonna be a turf war but no they just took the nerscylla stinger

I have a decent memory, but I remember watching this movie and was able to rewatch it all over again like it's the first time because it's that forgettable

I really liked the second act, it reminded me a lot of Enemy Mine. Unfortunately everything after the oasis feels like a completely different movie.

Cause I would totally trust the guy who essentially made self insert fanfic out the re franchise to handle a monster hunter film .

ohhh yeah, this was the movie I remember my dad and I going to see when he came home to visit me for our wedding, he was home in Jan 2021 for a week and a half and this was the last film we saw together, going to the movies was kind of our thing when I was growing up. Honestly the only thing I remember about this film was that it had terrible editing. But the CGI was pretty dang good. Anyway dad died in August of 2022 in his home in Puerto Rico (he had been living there for about 4 years at that point, but had been living here in Wisconsin up until then, so seeing him in 2021 for our wedding was a big deal for me after he had been gone for a couple of years). So this movie is kind of bitter sweet to me, it wasn't terrible but wasn't great either. There was nothing really else better in theaters at the time that he wanted to see, and we had both seen worse together (Transformers movies.. we saw 1 or 2 of those together). I remember seeing most of the 007 films together like Goldeneye, Skyfall, Spectre.. I remember we saw Blackhawk Down together in 2000. He cringed and freaked out at the scene with the leg artery. We went and saw Wing Commander WAY back in the day together (yes, that was a movie). And once we had our pictures taken outside the movie theater in front of the Oscar Mayer Wiener Mobile. RIP dad

Honestly, as a monster hunter fan I did enjoy the first half. I like the idea of our world army getting sucked into the mh universe, the atmosphere was pretty good, trying to survive against monsters with conventional weapons and so on, but the second half, or even two thirds, I don't know, it just ruined everything. I think that if they actually focused more on the worlds mixing together and monster seeping into our world instead, or if more people would get sucked there it would be more interesting. One of the problems is definitely how goofy monster hunter weapons look. Maybe they wanted to do what I wanted in the second film since the movie ended on a cliffhanger but that's also the thing. It's like their busget ran out so we didn't really get an ending, it literally stopped right before the climax. Overall I think the movie is 5/10, it had potential to be fun, but it became a boring mess the longer it went on

I feel like all the petty combat between the Soldiers and Hunters was because they didn't have the CGI budget to add more monster scenes.

TI was actually in a movie called takers. Which is a pretty decent guilty pleasure movie with a star studded cast

0:59 To be fair, there are far worse things than wanting to cast your own wife as the lead hot badass action star of your movies 😂 Not even mad

When they started singing that POG ass cadence I wanted to withdraw into my torso like a fucking turtle.