Kraven the Hunter isn’t a good movie, but it should bring with it a sense of relief. This is the last of Sony’s Spider-Verse that doesn’t have Spider-Man, a series of pointless films that feel like the definition of “product,” seemingly made to fill a release date in the hopes that people would remember a supporting Spider-Man character and be tricked into going to the theater. But the truth is that nothing else is much better right now, particularly in the superhero genre, so the movie you keep hoping will finally end can just as well be this as anything else. And that’s Kraven the Hunter: a soulless, inconsistent, poorly edited, mostly atrociously acted excuse to stretch a brand beyond its breaking point, just like all the rest at the moment.
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