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Walkthrough — Monster Hunter World: Iceborne Wiki Guide

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne Wiki Guide

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IGN’s Monster Hunter World complete walkthrough will lead you through every step of Monster Hunter World from the title screen to the final credits.

See Iceborne Walkthrough: Assigned Quests for the Monster Hunter World: Iceborne Walkthrough!

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Below you’ll find a list of both Assigned Quests, Optional Quests, and Delivery Quests, you need to complete to unlock more monsters, Botanical Research items, Canteen items, and more.

Assigned Quests Optional Quests Delivery Quests

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To play most efficiently, you should try to keep up with all of these as you progress the story. Better buffs from food and being able to farm useful crafting items are invaluable! 

Assigned Quests

These Assigned Quests are done in order as part of the story. As these are completed, more maps, NPCs, tools, and monsters are unlocked. 

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Optional Quests

There are optional quests for every monster, which we won’t list here. However, these are the optional quests you’ll need to complete to unlock more items to farm at the Botanical Research Facility,  Boosters, Mantles, monsters, and more. You can tell an Optional Quest will get you something special by the ellipses next to the quest name.

Most of these must be unlocked in order, by completing quests for the same quest giver. Make sure to talk to everyone in Astera and at the Research Base with ! over their heads — that means they have a quest for you, or you completed a quest they gave you.

Quest Name Level Goal Reward
Fungal Flexin’ in the Ancient Forest 1* Deliver 20 Gourmet Shroomcaps Canteen ingredient
Snatch the Snatcher 2* Capture Kulu-Ya-Ku Continous Quest Line — Unlocks Monster
The Pain From Gains 2* Slay 7 Gajau Canteen Ingredient
Exterminator of the Waste 2* Slay 14 Vespoid Canteen Ingredient
Prickly Predicament 3* Deliver 20 Bauble Cactuses Botanical Research Item
Gettin’ Yolked in the Waste 3* Deliver 2 Herbivore Eggs Canteen Ingredient
Landing the Landside Wyvern 3* Capture a Barroth Continous Quest Line — Unlocks Monster
Gettin’ Yolked in the Forest 4* Deliver 2 Wyvern Eggs Canteen Ingredient
Royal Relocation 3* Hunt a Rathian Botanical Research Item
It’s a Crying Shamos 4* Slay 11 Shamos Canteen Ingredient
What a Bunch of Abalone 4* Deliver 10 Super Abalone Canteen Ingredient
White Monster for a White Coat 4* Capture a Paolumu Continous Quest Line — Unlocks Monster
Persistent Pests 4* Slay 14 Hornetaur Unlocks a Botanical Research Slot
On Nightmare’s Wings 4* Slay 5 Raphinos Unlocks the Cleanser Booster
Redefining the Power Couple 5* Hunt All Target Monsters (Rathian & Rathalos) Unlocks the Bandit Mantle
Gone in a Flash 5* Slay a Kirin Continous Quest Line — First Unlocked Monster — Unlocks Thunderproof Mantle
Man’s Best Friend 5* Capture an Odogaron Continous Quest Line — Unlocks Monster
The Meat of the Matter 5* Deliver 2 Lumps of Meat Canteen Ingredient
Stuck in Their Ways 6* Capture a Tobi-Kadachi Canteen Ingredient
Chef Quest! Pumped to Deliver 6* Deliver 4 Forgotten Fossils Canteen Ingredient
Chef Quest! A Rotten Request 6* Slay 10 Girros Canteen Ingredient
Chef Quest! Gajalaka Lockdown 6* Defeat 10 Gajalaka Canteen Ingredient
The Red and Blue Crew 7* Hunt All Target Monsters (Rathalos & Azure Rathalos) Unlocks Challenger Mantle
Talons of Ire and Ice 7* Hunt All Target Monsters (Legiana & Odogaron) Unlocks a Botanical Research Slot
Bazelgeuse in the Field of Fire 7* Hunt a Bazelgeuse Continous Quest Line — Unlocks Monster
Lightning Strikes Twice 8* Slay a Kirin Continous Quest Line — 2nd Unlocked Monster
A Summons from Below 9* Hunt All Target Monsters (Tempered Vaal Hazak & Tempered Odogaron) Unlocks Rocksteady Mantle

Delivery Quests

These are given out mostly by the «Fivers» that hang around town, but sometimes the NPCs at the Resource Center hand them out as well. Deliveries must also be completed in order to build any campsites you might find. RP stands for Research Points. 

Setting Up Camp Deliveries

These need to be completed in order to unlock new camps in the different locations, which also act as fast travel points. You must first find the potential campsite before you unlock the delivery quest.

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Quest Name Items RP Needed Rewards
Ancient Forest I Iron Ore (2), Ancient Bone 50 Northwest Camp (8)
Ancient Forest II Anjanath Pelt, Monster Bone L (2) 1000 Ancient Forest Camp (17)
Wildspire Waste I Vespoid Shell (2), Monster Bone M 300 Central Camp (6)
Wildspire Waste II Rathian Scale (2), Monster Bone L (2) 800 Northeast Camp (15)
Coral Highlands I Tzitzi-Ya-Ku Hide, Monster Bone M (2) 1000 Northeast Camp (12)
Elder’s Recess I Barnos Hide+ (2), Monster Bone+ 750 Eastern Camp (8)
Elder’s Recess II Dodogama Hide+, Wingdrake Hide (2) 1200 Northwest Camp (16)

Mantles and Ropelifts

These need to be completed in order to unlock some new mantles as well as the ropelift for the Coral Highlands.

Quest Name Items RP Needed Rewards
Armory R&D: Weatherizing Paolumu Pelt+ (3), Paolumu Wing 1500 Iceproof Mantle
Armory R&D: Waterproofing Jyuratodus Scale+ (3), Jyuratodus Fin+ 1500 Waterproof Mantle
The Shortcut to Happiness Shamos Hide (5), Sturdy Bone 1000 Ropelift

Canteen deliveries

These deliveries unlock new ingredients at the Canteen, allowing for better buffs and a wider variety of Felyne Skills that can be activated when eating. 

Quest Name Items RP Needed Rewards
A Great Help Mega Potions 50 Diced Steak
A Master’s Toast Thunder Sac (2) 600 Mater Ale
Phantasmagoric Paprika! Pukei-Pukei Sac+ 600 Prismatic Paprika
A Veggie Master of Disguise Hornetaur Carapace 800 Aromaticelery
Ancient But Fresh! Grand Gajau Whisker 800 Ancient Seabream
The Bone-In Roast Resistance Radobaan Carapace 800 Great Mutton
The Juicy Meat Resistance Uragaan Scute 700 Rich Rump
Tomatoes Red As Magma Lava Nugget 600 Fatty Tomato
Million Zenny Veggie Girros Fang 400 Millionfold Cabbage
Princely Prawns Shamos Hide 300 Coral Shrimp
A Feast of Fish Gajau Skin 200 Gajau Gill
Mushrooms: Nature’s Smelly Bounty Mosswine Hide 100 King Truffle

Botany Deliveries

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These need to be completed in order to unlock new harvest items and harvest box upgrades.

Quest Name Items RP Needed Rewards
Your Storage Solution Torrent Sac 1000 Harvest Box Upgrade
To Hold a Harvest Aqua Sac (2) 300 Harvest Box Upgrade
The Pied Bug Piper Tzitzi-Ya-Ku Photophore+ 800 Thick Summoner Jelly
A Mountain of Mushrooms Kulu-Ya-Ku Plume+ 700 Choice Mushroom Substrate
Grow, Greenery, Grow Great Jagras Hide+ 600 Mega Fertilizer
Sprouting an Ancient Tree Coral Bone 500 Catalyst

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Monster Hunter World is the most accessible entry point yet for Capcom’s colossally successful action role-playing series, with the series making a big-budget leap to PS4, Xbox One and PC.

But accessibility doesn’t mean it has skimped on depth. This is still a vast, detailed and initially overwhelming game, and though things are easier to follow, getting your head around the quest structure and what you can get up to can take a little time — which is where this Monster Hunter World walkthrough and guide comes in.

Monster Hunter World walkthrough

Unlike previous Monster Hunter games, the main ‘story’ quests are much more obvious to follow.

Instead of being buried amongst a list of other quests, the next mission to progress — allowing you to see new areas and cutscenes — will be either in the Assigned menu of the quest board, or shown as a red symbol on the map screen.

But it’s still useful to know what quests and their respective monsters are coming up. The further you progress, the more materials are available to you, and if you know your favourite monster is just an area away, you know exactly when to take an hour out of the story to start farming.

Story missions in chronological order:

Ancient Forest

  • Jagras of the Ancient Forest (slay 7 Jagras)
  • A Kestodon Kerfuffle (slay Kestodon)
  • The Great Jagras Hunt (hunt a Great Jagras)
  • Bird-Brained Bandit (hunt a Kulu-Ya-Ka)
  • Urgent: Pukei-Pukei Hunt (hunt a Pukei-Pukei)

Wildspire Waste

  • The Best Kind of Quest (hunt a Barroth)
  • Sinister Shadows in the Swamp (hunt a Jyuratodus)

Ancient Forest revisited

  • Flying Sparks: Tobi-Kadachi (hunt a Tobi-Kadachi)
  • The Encroaching Anjanath (hunt an Anjanath)

Great Ravine

  • One for the History Books (hunt a Zorah Magdaros)
  • Expedition (unlock Research Base, Coral Highlands)

Coral Highlands

  • Expedition (optional hunt for a Tzitzi-Ya-Ku)
  • Ballooning Problems (hunt a Paolumu)

Rotten Vale

  • Expedition / Radobaan Roadblock (Sight a Great Gairros, Hunt a Radobaan)

Coral Highlands revisited

  • Legiana: Embodiment of Elegance (hunt a Legiana)

Coral Highlands revisited

  • Into the Bowels of the Vale (hunt a Odogaron)

Seeking help from a First Wyverian

  • Find a First Wyverian in the Ancient Forest (Expedition)
  • Horned Tyrant Below the Sands (hunt a Diablos)
  • A Fiery Throne Atop the Forest (hunt a Rathalos)

Everstream

  • A Colossal Task (hunt a Zorah Magdaros)

Entering High Rank

  • Invader in the Waste (started from a Wildspire Waste expedition; hunt a High Rank Pukei-Pukei)
  • Find ??? Rathian trails in High Rank Optional quests and expeditions until you research enough to unlock. ..
  • Tickled Pink (hunt a High Rank Anjanath)
  • Continue to find ??? Rathian tracks in High Rank Optional quests and expeditions until you research enough to unlock…
  • Old World Monster in the New World (hunt a Pink Rathian)

Elder’s Recess and Elder Dragons

  • Find the three new monsters in Elder’s Recess (Expedition)
  • Continue to find ??? Nergigante trails in Elder’s Recess
  • A Wound and a Thirst (slay Nergigante)
  • Investigate the three Elder Dragon tracks (complete High Rank quests and find tracks in Ancient Forest, Wildspire Wastes and Rotten Vale)
  • Kushala Daora, Dragon of Steel (hunt Kushala Daora)
  • Teostra the Infernal (slay Teostra)
  • Hellish Fiend Vaal Hazah (slay Vaal Hazah)
  • Land of Convergence (slay final boss Xeno’Jiiva)
  • …now enjoy the end credits!

Monster Hunter World guides

As well as the above, here’s our other Monster Hunter World guides:

Iceborne guides:

  • How to start Monster Hunter World Iceborne
  • Monster Hunter World Boaboa quests
  • Monster Hunter World Surveyor Set quests
  • Monster Hunter World Beotodus strategy and weaknesses
  • Monster Hunter World Shara Ishvalda strategy and weaknesses
  • How to get Thermae, Yukumo, Silver Knight Layered Armour in Monster Hunter World

Optional monsters:

  • Monster Hunter World — Kirin strategy
  • Monster Hunter World — Bazelgeuse strategy

System explainers:

  • Monster Hunter World tips
  • Monster Hunter World — How to capture monsters large and small
  • Monster Hunter World weapon types list
  • Monster Hunter World’s Insect Glaive: How Kinsects work
  • Monster Hunter World item crafting: How item combinations work
  • How to get Layered Armour in Monster Hunter World

Material farming:

  • Monster Hunter World Bone locations
  • Monster Hunter World Ore locations
  • Monster Hunter World — Hornetaur location and how to get Carapace, Innerwing
  • Monster Hunter World — Wiggler locations

Tailraider quests:

  • Monster Hunter World Grimalkynes and Doodles explained
  • Monster Hunter World — How to get the Plunderblade from the Rotten Vale
  • Monster Hunter World Gajalaka quests
  • Monster Hunter World Boaboa quests

Seasonal events and DLC quests:

  • Monster Hunter World Horizon Zero Dawn event and Aloy armour set explained
  • Monster Hunter World — Spring Blossom Festival
  • Monster Hunter World — Behemoth strategy
  • Monster Hunter World — The Witcher quest guide

A guide to Monster Hunter World quest types, from Investigations to Expeditions

There is, obviously, much more than Assigned story missions to do, though the way they present themselves isn’t exactly obvious.

If you approach the quest board, here’s what each mission type means:

  • Assigned — This is the next main story mission. Completing these progresses through the story, unlocking new areas, and allows you to fight new monsters.
  • Optional — These are optional hunts, arena fights and egg stealing missions. You can either get these from Astera or from quest givers found in Expeditions, or are added automatically, so check back often.
  • Investigations — Hunting or Capture quests, usually with failure conditions, but offer better rewards. You can unlock these from the Resource Center (see below). If you want to hunt a specific monster, then this is the place to do it for the added benefits they offer.
  • Events — These are time limited missions based around promotions, such as the Horizon Zero Dawn armour set.

Then there’s the Resource Center, which are less to do with hunting monsters:

  • Bounties — These are non-monster specific activities for the Research team, such as finding a certain amount of insects or type of item. You’ll unlock them from quest givers in Astera or out in Expeditions, such as Grimalkynes.
  • Manage Investigations — Select which Investigation missions you want to take on. These update regularly as your Research progresses, so be sure to see what takes your fancy. You can then start them from the quest board, as mentioned above.
  • Complete Deliveries — These are similar to Bounties but are more like fetch quests, where you must get a certain amount of items. You’ll unlock them from quest givers in Astera or out in Expeditions, and completing them can unlock unique things like new campsites.

Finally, there are Expeditions, which are selected from the World Map. These allow you to load into any area without having a mission first, allowing you to take your time exploring and foraging. (If you are familiar with Destiny, it’s not unlike Patrol missions on a planet.

They also see quest givers appear out in the wild, as well as an opportunity to investigate Grimalkynes.

Though monsters will roam around, you cannot predict which ones will appear, so we recommend choosing Investigations to find a specific creature you need — with the benefit of getting more rewards and Armor Spheres, too.

Monster Hunter World’s mission structure is a little confusing, but if you are stuck for things to do outside of the story, head to Astera and Expeditions and hunt for ! marks for bonus quests between missions, and regularly check in to the Resource Center to make sure you don’t miss anything.

Monster Hunter World guide: The absolute basics

Monster Hunter is an action role-playing game (RPG), and as the name suggests the core of the game revolves around hunting monsters — large, ferocious beasts that roam the world causing havoc.

As you progress through the game you will be assigned specific targets that you need to track down, but along the way you can take on other prey to collect loot and supplies that can be used to upgrade your weapons and armour to make it easier to take down your quarry.

Unlike most RPGs your character has no stats to call their own, and it’s all about crafting better gear; if you’ve ever played Destiny you can think of Monster Hunter being like the endgame, a constant cycle of gear acquisition to let you take on stronger enemies to get better gear to take on stronger enemies.

Quest Structure

Once a quest has started you’ll be given a general area to look for the monster’s trail, and searching that area will reveal footprints or other evidence of its passing.

Once you have spotted enough of these clues, your Scoutflies — the glowing green breadcrumb trail — will lead you to the monster you’ve been tasked to kill.

Unless you get lucky, most fights with your prey will be quite lengthy affairs. After taking a chunk of damage the monster will flee, so you’ll need to follow it to its new location. You can deal some damage along the way, but it’s generally a better strategy to just let it get to where it’s going before attacking again — attacking it will slow you down and you’re unlikely to be able to do a significant amount of damage to it.

Once the monster reaches its lair it’ll stay put. If it’s limping and / or sleeping you are able to capture it — otherwise you can continue to scrap it until it’s downed.

Like Pokémon, if you’re defeated in battle you don’t die, you just need to have a bit of a lie down, and you will respawn at the nearest camp. Once you wake up follow the trail to resume the fighting — the Scoutflies will generally know the best way. Quests might have a limit on the amount of revives and time, and though by and large you should be able to scrape through, it’s worth keeping these in mind.

Once your foe is vanquished you have a brief window to loot it for parts before being returned to the hub.

That’s essentially the loop. Of course, there’s plenty of nuance to exploring and fighting. Our Monster Hunter World tips page gives you a list of things that aren’t obvious outside the essentials.

Making sense of Monster Hunter World’s interface

As the game doesn’t go into too much detail, it’s worth giving a brief explanation of what’s going on on your HUD so you can make some sense of the visual noise.

  • Health/Stamina: If your health drops to zero you’ll faint, and if your stamina drops to zero you’ll be pretty much immobilised, so keep an eye on your gauges and get out of trouble if they’re looking a little low.
  • Weapon Sharpness: (Melee weapons only.) The more you use a melee weapon, the less effective it becomes. Avoid smacking it against rocks, trees, or anything else hard! You can use your Whetstone from the radial menu to sharpen it if it’s too damaged, or you can return to camp and swap it for something else.
  • Charge: (Varies with weapon type.) If your weapon has elemental attacks or other special features, this gauge will display the level of charge.
  • Performing regular attacks will add to the charge, and when the meter’s full you can unleash it.
  • Felyne Status: Shows the health and special ability status of your Felyne companion. You can’t do anything about either of them so it’s not entirely useful.
  • Weapon Controls: Shows you what attacks are available at that precise moment. It doesn’t display combos, though — those you’ll have to learn for yourself.
  • Activity Feed: Gives a blow-by-blow account of what’s going on, showing collected items and other information as you go.
  • Quick-use Item: Shows you what item you’ll use by pressing Square. Cycle through your inventory with the L1 button.
  • Current Target: Displays which target you’re tracking, and once an enemy has been engaged it shows their health: the flatter the blue line below the icon, the closer they are to death.

Additional reporting by Mat Hall.

It became known when the movie «Monster Hunter» with Milla Jovovich will be released

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It is known when the movie «Monster Hunter» with Milla Jovovich will be released.

02/07/2019

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The release date for the movie «Monster Hunter» starring Milla Jovovich has been announced.

According to Screen Rant, the film adaptation of Monster Hunter will be released on September 4, 2020. In the same period, the releases of The Conjuring 3 and The Croods 2 are expected.

Recall that the shooting of the film has already been completed in December. Jovovich then commented on the work on the project as follows:

«Everyone worked so hard, it was by far one of the hardest films I’ve ever worked on, which is saying a lot.»

According to the plot of the tape, the soldiers who got into an alternative dimension will fight monsters who want to enter the Earth through a portal. Soldiers and hunters will unite their forces in the struggle, and one of the units will be led by Artemis performed by Jovovich.

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Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. He worked on another well-known film adaptation of Capcom’s Resident Evil games starring Jovovich.

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Literally everything in the new film by the director of «Resident Evil» is bad: the plot, dialogues and even references to the original games.

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On January 28, Paul W. S. Anderson’s film «Monster Hunter» starts in Russian cinemas. This director is best known for the Resident Evil franchise. And the author decided to reuse the concept that once brought him considerable success: he took a series of games as a basis, gave the main role to his wife Milla Jovovich and relied on action.

That’s just not in vain, many criticized the last part of «Resident Evil» for a slurred plot and lack of logic. Things got even worse in Monster Hunter. As a result, the new film will certainly not appeal to either game fans or unprepared viewers.

A plot without meaning and dialogues

A group of military men led by Lieutenant Artemis (Milla Jovovich) is trying to find their colleagues who disappeared without a trace. The team gets caught in a sandstorm and is suddenly transported to another world inhabited by creepy monsters. Only Artemis survives. To return home, she must team up with a mysterious Hunter (Tony Jaa) who knows how to defeat monsters.

Already from the description, you can guess that the picture has a very indirect relationship to the plot of the games. To simplify the pitch, Anderson added banal «hit» to the story. Of course, many directors and writers use this technique: a person from our world finds himself in an unusual situation, and viewers or readers will understand what is happening along with him.

But in the case of «Monster Hunter» by the end of the information will be exactly the same as it was at the beginning of the story. Moreover, it cannot be said that the authors miss the opportunity to tell about another world. They just don’t even try to do it.

It seems that the structure of the plot is somewhat reminiscent of the first (and most successful) part of Resident Evil: there is a detachment of special forces who die so that the viewer feels the danger of this world: even the most prepared cannot be saved here. But then Anderson tried to prescribe at least some characters of secondary characters that you can become attached to. In Monster Hunter, the military sings a song for a couple of minutes, speaks in clichéd phrases from old action films, then runs and shoots a little — and then they die. It is unlikely that many will have time to even remember their names.

Still from the movie «Monster Hunter»

But when Tony Jaa’s character appears, things get even worse. After all, about half of the film, Anderson shows only two characters who speak different languages ​​​​and do not understand each other. All their dialogues consist of fragmentary phrases and chaotic gestures.

Somehow explaining themselves, Artemis and the Hunter decide to destroy the main monster. Fortunately for this there is a weapon that comes from nowhere with incomprehensible powers. This will allow the heroes to get to some other place, about which they also say absolutely nothing.

As if remembering by the end that you need to give the viewer at least a little information, out of nowhere they introduce several more heroes. One of them (performed by Ron Perlman) tells how Artemis ended up in another world. It takes about the same time as the military sang the song at the beginning.

No disclosure of the world

All this looks as strange as possible. After all, the authors already initially have a well-thought-out and elaborated world of Monster Hunter games. It was only necessary to adapt it to the big screen, and then at least the fans of the original fell in love with the film. But Anderson limited himself to only short and most unnecessary references.

Still from the film «Monster Hunter»

Most of the action takes place just in the desert. The endless sandy landscapes captured in South Africa certainly look beautiful. But, unlike Star Wars or Dune, here they are as uninformative as possible. Often this is literally an empty open space that will not give the viewer anything but aesthetic pleasure.

The Hunter might have to tell about the origin and powers of the monsters. But, as mentioned above, the heroine does not understand his language, so the monsters remain just a danger that can appear at any moment. We must pay tribute, some of them worked out very well. Apparently, the 60 million budget went solely to the graphics.

But the attempt to keep the canonical weapons from the games seems completely superfluous. For fantasy projects, too bulky and strange bows and swords are perfectly acceptable. But next to realistic weapons from the ordinary world, they seem like ridiculous props.

A still from the film «Monster Hunter»

The creators of «Monster Hunter» simply abandoned the large-scale world of the original games, and offered nothing in return. A couple of beautiful locations, creepy monsters and strange weapons are unlikely to believe in the plausibility of what is happening.

Chaotic action

But, of course, the creators of such films always have one last chance to fix all the chaos and illogicality of the plot. The film can simply be turned into an adrenaline thriller by stuffing it to capacity with action. That’s just in a strange way, «Monster Hunter» and here manages to look pale.

A still from the film «Monster Hunter»

Some of the scenes are hidden in inadequate darkness. It is clear that this approach simplifies the work on graphics. But sometimes it’s literally hard to make out what’s happening on the screen. And to this, too fast and chaotic editing is added, which can just make your head spin, and unnecessary slow motion.

It’s amazing that even Tony Jaa’s talent is not properly revealed. To understand how good this actor is in martial arts, it is enough to remember at least a 15-minute fight in a fight club in Ong Bak, at least 8 minutes of action in Dragon’s Honor, filmed in one long shot without editing.

Here, too, he is too rarely allowed to show his skills, relying more on graphics. Although the first fights of his hero with the character of Milla Jovovich look exciting.

And if there are pluses in «Monster Hunter», it is only thanks to the performers of the main roles. Jovovich in action is still emotional and charming. And with the hero Jaa, they sometimes give out great chemistry even without words.

It’s a pity they forgot to add a normal script to this. After all, each dynamic scene is interspersed with too long and almost meaningless campaigns, slurred attempts at dialogue and flat jokes.

Still from the film «Monster Hunter»

Moreover, the film is too short for a big-budget blockbuster, not even up to 2 hours (this usually means that bad material was severely cut during editing). But because of the uneven pace and the huge number of empty scenes, it seems to be too long. And for an action movie with monsters, this is disastrous.


It is completely unclear who, according to the idea of ​​the authors, should like this film. For fans of the games, it has too little connection with the original. For those unfamiliar with the world of Monster Hunter, there are no explanations. You can really enjoy large-scale effects only on the big screen and preferably in a good cinema.