{"id":2395,"date":"2026-04-11T11:28:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2124911"},"modified":"2026-04-11T11:28:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:28:26","slug":"paul-w-s-andersons-monster-hunter-movie-finally-looks-like-monster-hunter-in-new-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/paul-w-s-andersons-monster-hunter-movie-finally-looks-like-monster-hunter-in-new-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul W.S. Anderson’s Monster Hunter movie finally looks like Monster Hunter in new trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zamite not be so bad after all. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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It really shouldn’t be hard not to screw up a Monster Hunter movie. After all, there aren’t any fan-favourite characters to ruin, and there certainly isn’t much of a story; all it really needs are big monsters, big weapons, lavish scenery, and, yes, big cats. So it’s gratifying to see Paul W.S. Anderson’s Monster Hunter movie finally being presented, in a new trailer for its Chinese release, as the kind of Monster Hunter movie fans of the series might actually want to watch.<\/p>\n

Gone is the inexplicable emphasis on the US military seen in Sony Pictures’ last Monster Hunter trailer<\/a>, which largely seemed to suggest that everyone involved hadn’t got even the faintest clue what Monster Hunter actually was, and in are a host of familiar elements that finally makes this cinematic spin on Capcom’s long-running franchise feel like part of the same universe.<\/p>\n

There are sweeping, fantastical landscapes that go beyond ‘brown desert’, there’s a heaving menagerie of creatures that indicate Anderson did more research than a cursory glance at a Monster Hunter box cover, and we also get a brief tease of the Palico chef in his natural cooking habitat. There’s even a welcome bit of humour, notably absent in the previous stony faced trailer, to go with all the prerequisite big weapons and action set-pieces.<\/p>\n

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