I hold the dubious honour of holding what is probably the most positive opinion of the Monster Hunter movie on planet Earth. I thought it was great! Spiders exploding out of a guy's chest and then eating him: what's not to like?
Plenty, according to everyone else, with the film sitting at around a 40% score on Rotten Tomatoes, with a slightly higher audience score of 70%. Pour one out for Lori, who found a movie about military grunts hunting down fantasy monsters "totally unrealistic and gory."
MGS: Peace Walker features a series of missions where Big Boss goes out and, essentially, hunts monsters with ludicrous military hardware. The crossover has three monsters: Rathalos, Tigrex, and the hybrid Gear Rex. They're deeply silly but great fun, and Peace Walker also pushes the boat out by incorporating elements like Felynes, smaller raptors, and cooking steaks.
It's this combination of rocket launchers and dragons that caught Anderson's eye, and made him think it could not only work as inspiration for Jovovich's characters, but also the wider themes of the film.
"I thought what great fun to play with the hubris of the modern world," says Anderson. "We put our faith in technology so much, in fact too much in my opinion, and of course in the movie it doesn't go so well, these people who have all these weapons and all these vehicles… they just end up getting fucked up."
Spoiler alert there! Don't worry: Milla Jovovich's character survives. I doubt Anderson was ever going to kill off his IRL wife. The good news (for everyone else at least) is that Monster Hunter underperformed at the box office, so a sequel is unlikely.
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