Plenty Of Action In This Not So Marvellous Film

IN Sony Pictures' action-adventure film Kraven the Hunter, the titular character is a child of the wild with the guile and gusto to "hunt down people" like few others.

- SREEJITH MULLPILLY

Kraven can run like the wind, climb up and down any structure like a wild cat, and cover large distances with his massive stride. He has a high sensitivity to sound and smell as well as an incredible vision that allows him to spot objects from miles away. Aaron Taylor-Johnson is a perfect physical embodiment of Kraven/Sergei Kravinoff, a muscular man who takes an oath to protect wild animals from poachers after a brutal encounter with a lion when he was young. But for all of his physicality, this character is not properly fleshed out. The makers seem to be unsure of where to place the character within the grossly underdeveloped Spider-Man Cinematic Universe. He is neither a traditional superhero nor a flat-out villain. At one point, his own brother Dmitri Kravinoff (Fred Hechinger) tells Kraven that he is worse than their father, and he replies, "No, I am better because I have a code." At another point, a character performs CPR on Kraven before yelling, "Legends do not die. Come back, Kraven." This dramatic moment feels out of place and lacks emotional impact. It is hard to care fo