Kraven the Hunter

WBZ's Jordan Rich takes a look at this Marvel Comics superhero film. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, This is now streaming with Jordan. There's a man
going round, Take your names, my son, and he decides
who to free and who to blame? What happened to
the once mighty Marvel universe? Exciting action pictures with heroes
you could root for. Well, Marvel's been in a losing
streak of late, and proof of that is the movie
Craven the Hunter starring Aaron Taylor Johnson, and he does

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have great abs as a spiritually enhanced hunter of very
evil people following a near death experience as a teenager
on a hunting trip. The character of Craven melds, if
you will, with a lion, and he grows up blessed
with the ability to spring like a cat, sends his
victim's next moves, all the while struggling with a domineering
Russian mafioso father played over the top by Russell Crowe.

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The pre title sequence in a desolate Russian prison is
action packed and exciting, but the film falls rather flat
after that and it becomes just another violent Russian mob story.
Now on Netflix, Craven the Hunter, and that's now streaming
with Jordan. WZ Boston's News Radio