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Milla Jovovich Fends Off Gigantic Dragons

Milla Jovovich, we’re gonna want an even bigger fireplace sword. The gigantic dragons and demon spawn-looking beasts in Paul W.S. Anderson’s “Monster Hunter” are gigantic and able to go down.

The first trailer for “Monster Hunter,” which is predicated on the favored online game franchise, seems in some methods like one huge lengthy boss struggle. Jovovich performs a human navy commander whose staff is teleported to an unique planet overrun by all types of hellish creatures, and their solely purpose is to determine find out how to get again residence and shut the portal gate from the opposite aspect.

“So what, are we like ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ now,” one of many troopers says as they stare down a monster that appears like a cross between a scorpion and rhino that’s simply crawled out from beneath a sand dune. “This is officially above my pay grade,” one other wise-cracking soldier says.

Jovovich leads a solid that additionally contains Tony Jaa, Tip ‘T.I.’ Harris, Meagan Good, Diego Boneta, Josh Helman, Jin Au-Yeung and Ron Perlman. But the particular results on show are the actual stars right here, and “Monster Hunter” must be one other movie for followers of not simply the “Monster Hunter” video video games, however particularly Anderson and Jovovich’s “Resident Evil” sequence.

“Monster Hunter” will hit theaters on December 30 from Sony’s Screen Gems, proper across the time that the Playstation 5 turns into stocked in shops.

Check out the primary full trailer for “Monster Hunter” above.

All 46 Video Game Movies Ranked, Including ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’

As a category of diversifications, online game motion pictures do not get quite a lot of respect. But that is simply because they, appropriately, lean towards trashiness over respectability. In actuality, some online game motion pictures are good, and a few of them are actually, actually unhealthy. Let’s type them out, by rating all of the online game motion pictures by “Sonic the Hedgehog.”
46. “Postal” (2008)
The pinnacle of director Uwe Boll’s string of horrendous online game motion pictures (he has 5 that qualify for this record by getting theatrical releases someplace), however to be truthful it is in all probability nonetheless a greater murals than the sport it is primarily based on.

Vivendi
45. “Alone in the Dark” (2005)
“House of the Dead” briefly tricked us into pondering Uwe Boll was a camp grasp, however his subsequent online game film, “Alone in the Dark,” was such an incomprehensible slog that I’ve by no means been capable of sit during it after my first viewing within the theater.

Lionsgate
44. “The Wizard” (1989)
Technically that is an adaptation of a novelty online game peripheral, the Nintendo Power Glove, fairly than an precise sport. And it is as a lot of a joke as you’d anticipate a feature-length advert to be.

Universal
43. “The Angry Birds Movie” (2016)
I’m a detrimental particular person on precept, however even I used to be delay by the misanthropy of this children film. When neo-Nazis embrace your cartoon, you in all probability did one thing flawed.

Sony/Columbia
42. “BloodRayne” (2006)
In 2003, Kristanna Loken regarded like she was gonna be someone when she starred as a Terminatrix in “Terminator 3.” And then she starred in two Uwe Boll motion pictures, together with this travesty.

Romar Entertainment
41. “Silent Hill: Revelations” (2012)
Worse than the primary “Silent Hill” film in each attainable method, all the way down to actors who appear incapable of constructing facial expressions. Which is unhealthy information, as a result of a lot of the appearing in a “Silent Hill” film calls for reacting to all of the bizarre issues the characters…