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Kraven the Hunter is the flimsiest strand in Sony’s spider-free web
Kraven the Hunter lays bare what Sony’s universe of Spider-Man spin-offs has always been: a bad idea.
You can feel the movie trying to humanize a younger version of Kraven (Levi Miller) as it flashes back to the fateful moment when he’s mauled by a lion while protecting Dmitri (Billy Barratt) during a hunting trip in Ghana. To some extent, Kraven the Hunter understands how, in lieu of giving its star a quippy hero to go up against, it has to flesh out his dynamics with other characters in order to make audiences see him as the sort of figure who can carry a feature-length story. But as the film introduces even more C-list Spider-Man villains into the mix like the Rhino (Alessandro Nivola) and the hypnotic Foreigner (Christopher Abbott), it becomes an overbusy mess like a simple recipe ruined by the addition of too many stale ingredients.
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