FILM
KRAVEN THE HUNTER
A FILM WHICH LEAVES US KRAVIN’ BETTER-QUALITY SUPERHERO MOVIES
Here: Aaron Taylor-Johnson displays some Kraven behaviour.
★★
OUT NOW / CERT 15 / 127 MINS
DIRECTOR J.C. Chandor
CAST Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ariana DeBose, Fred Hechinger, Alessandro Nivola, Christopher Abbott, Russell Crowe
PLOT After being saved from a lion attack by a voodoo potion as a teen, Sergei Kravinoff (Taylor-Johnson) becomes a hunter of criminals.
FOR THE COMIC-book-illiterate, Kraven The Hunter, created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in 1964, is a Spider-Man antagonist and co-founder of the supervillain gang the Sinister Six. J.C. Chandor’s mostly flat and ludicrous origin story reimagines him as a vigilante Doctor Dolittle, an apex predator who can not only commune with animals but also takes on some of their abilities, such as increased smell, vision and strength. Surprisingly, this is perhaps the part of Kraven The Hunter that makes the most sense.