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To be frank, I have never really watched the live action version by Paul Anderson nor do I even the intend to even watch it. Just by watching from the trailer release back then I had doubts to either go watch it at the cinema or just stream it.  Until now I never had a slight interest to watch it cause after watching the animation from Netflix, it was already enough.

SYNOPSIS

The movie focuses on the narrative background story of Aiden;  a young, hardworking village hunter who one day went out to find the culprit who stole a village farmer’s goods. While on the journey he got attacked by a Velocidrome ( a blue raptor like dinosaur) but got rescued by a professional Guild Hunter, Julius. The encounter with the Guild Hunter definitely was not a coincidence as his real purpose was to come to Aiden’s village to warn the village head and it’s people about the coming danger of an Elder Dragon who is about to approach the village in a week. It is now up to Aiden and Julius to come up with a way to defend the village and fight off the Elder Dragon.

PROs and CONs

Let me explain the good part about this movie first. Firstly if you have ever played any Monster Hunter titles before then I DEFINITELY recommend you guys to watch this movie. Most of the references they mentioned and shown in the movie are easily recognizable, especially the weapons and monsters.

 In some parts of the movie you could see Aiden wielding a giant hammer and how he swings them is pretty much the same as how you wield in the game. There’s also a scene where Julius is teaching Aiden how to wield a dual blade and yes the way he demonstrates the normal swing is almost the same animation swing from the game. That is pretty much some of the weapons used but I won’t say further for the others so you can see them for yourselves! 

The monsters here, holy crap their movement, behaviour and attack choreography is the same from the games as well! The monster is, I think is what will attract the Monster Hunter fans to be interested in this movie. Lunastra is the main baddie here. The menacing Queen of Elder Dragon who controls fire, is where most hunter players struggled to fight especially in Monster Hunter: World. In fact, I still am furious just thinking about the name itself since I’ve always struggle A LOT fighting this beast 😬. Lunastra is probably one of the most famous Elder Dragon in Monster Hunter series and I think they made the right choice choosing her as the villain, a huge threat in this movie. They even made a menacing fiery entrance when they introduced her and all I can say that it was pretty bad***.

That’s pretty much it I would to point out about the good part of this movie. Now the only huge letdown about this movie is the animation itself. Sometimes it is good but other times it feels like it’s a bit “cluncky”? when they do the fight scene and I do notice that sometimes that the lips movement is a bit slow to sync with the audio speech, or maybe it’s just me. But animation still is an issue here. This movie is probably just a test run whether this will be a success or not which explains the bad animation(?) either way, for me it is still a bit tolerable in a way as the story, monsters, characters and some references made me ignore the animation issues.

VERDICT

Monster Hunter: Legends of the Guild premieres today

Monster Hunter: Legends of the Guild, the new movie from Steve Yamamoto, is out today.

First look at Monster Hunter: Legends of the Guild

A new trailer has been released for Monster Hunter: Legends of the Guild, which is set to release August 12, 2021.