Kraven the Hunter Reviews Lead to Abysmal Rotten Tomatoes & Metacritic Scores

After being criticized for its lackluster story in early reviews, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic have pulled down Sony’s scores. Kraven the Hunter It arrives after its release on December 12, 2024. The film stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and follows the story of Sergei Kravinoff, who has a complicated relationship with his father, Nikolai Kravinoff, played by Russell Crowe. This leads him to search for a new identity and become the titular character.

Kraven the Hunter reviews call it a “self-inflicted kill shot”

After being delayed multiple times for nearly two years, Kraven the Hunter finally debuts in theaters across the US on December 12. However, the film failed to have a positive impact on film critics, who criticized the film for its disappointing performance in their filmography. Reviews.

Although Coming Someone’s Jonathan Sim praised the film for making the bold decision to get an R rating, he stated that Kraven the Hunter still had pacing issues. “The pace of the first and second acts can be slow at times,” he wrote in his review. The movie is only interesting when the action starts because the dialogue scenes are boring.

On the other hand, David is fearless Rolling Stone He asserted in his review that Kraven the Hunter didn’t have “much reason to exist”. Fear said the film’s script “felt frivolous and manipulated in all the wrong ways.” He further stated that Kraven the Hunter is “undoubtedly a self-inflicted kill shot” by Sony.

In addition, David Ehrlich of IndieWire He targeted the film’s CGI and said it “goes from ‘coolly cartoony’ to ‘being done as cheaply as possible by a studio trying to cut its losses’.”

according to Rotten tomatoesBased on 56 reviews, Kraven the Hunter received a disappointing score of 14%, marking one of the lowest scores for films from the Sony Spider-Man Universe. On the other hand, the film received a score of 33 based on 24 reviews Metacritic.

These results are similar to those for Morbius, another film based on Sony’s Spider-Man villain. After its release in 2022, Morbius registered a 17% rating on Rotten Tomatoes (via IndieWire). It is worth noting that the film currently has a 15% rating on the website Tomato scale And a score of 35 on Metacritic.