welcome back to movie recaps today i
will show you an action adventure
fantasy film from 2020 titled monster
hunter
spoilers ahead watch out and take care
it is said that there are new worlds out
there hidden from the perception of our
senses in this particular new world
humans coexist with a wide variety of
large and savage monsters there's also a
mystical tower in the middle of the
desert that is always surrounded by
black clouds and lightning and that's
where a sand ship led by the admiral is
currently sailing to
their trip is suddenly interrupted
however when they're attacked by a
monster that lives in the dunes called
diablos it tries to knock over the ship
by pushing it with its giant body so the
admiral rushes to the wheel and tries to
steer the vessel out of the monster's
way the escape is successful but sadly
when trying to rescue handler from
falling off the ship the hunter falls
instead and is left behind in the desert
on earth captain natalie artemis and her
security team formed by lincoln marshall
dash steeler and axe are searching for a
missing team of soldiers in the desert
the only clues they have are a recording
of their sos message and the will tracks
on the road that suddenly come to a stop
as if the vehicle that left them had
disappeared in thin air there are also
some mysterious rock markers near the
road with symbols they cannot read
suddenly a dark storm appears in front
of them moving their frantic speed the
team gets on their vehicles in order to
escape as the storm hits all the
mysterious markers with lightning making
the writing on them blow up
no matter how fast the team drives
though the storm is faster and soon
reaches their cars engulfing them inside
a portal as the vehicles fall off the
edge of a cannon the cars are pushed by
the wind they roll and turn over and
over throwing the people inside off
their seats when they finally land and
the soldiers come out they notice the
storm has backed off and is floating
above a mountain area with various
structures that aren't on their maps
this desert they find themselves in is
full of sand dunes as well which should
be impossible because the nearest dunes
should be 20 clicks away all their
electronics are fried and not even their
compass is working so they decide to try
to return back to base by navigating
using the sun
axe tells them to wait however when he
finds something it's the cars used by
the lost team there are bodies next to
them burned to such an extreme that
couldn't be accomplished by a
flamethrower there are other things
around glass shards which indicate
something exceedingly hot having melted
the sand and empty bullets which means
the dead soldiers defended themselves
from something yet whatever it was it
hasn't left marks on the sand getting
worried about whatever it is that caused
this the team gets back on their cars
and leaves the area unaware that hunter
is watching them through his spyglass
but they stop again when they find one
more mind-blowing thing a giant animal
skeleton bigger even than a dinosaur
taking advantage of their stop hunter
shoots an arrow at them and the soldiers
respond by opening fire until artemis
grabs the arrow and asks them to stop it
only has chalk on it a warning signal at
that moment diablo surges from the sand
and begins chasing the squad as they try
to escape on their cars
no matter what they shoot at it it is
impervious to all of it and eventually
it comes close enough to hit one of the
cars and knock it over a couple of times
killing axe
steeler manages to run away before the
car gets crushed and jumps on the jeep
with the others but they don't manage to
get too far before diablos knocks over
this car as well and impales steeler
with his tusk
right before dying he throws a couple of
grenades at the monster which don't hurt
him but offer an opening for his team to
hide among the rocky formations as
hunter shoots a smoke arrow at diablos
to slow it down the squad enters a cave
with an entrance too small for the
monster to follow them so it gives up
for now and leaves dash starts to panic
about their situation but artemis as a
leader gives out orders and tells them
they'll be good soldiers and survive as
such
her words are interrupted however when
she's suddenly taken by a spider-like
monster called ner scala which stings
her and injects her some paralyzing
venom before dropping her and running
away when the soldiers start shooting at
it
marshall and lincoln try to give artemis
cpr to no avail and dash begs them to
get going because more nursillas are
coming out now that night has fallen
assuming artemis is dead lincoln
marshall and dash leave the cave as they
continue to fire at the monster with the
help of hunter who is shooting explosive
arrows from atop a cliff and must run
away when a nurse call it comes after
him dash trips and falls delaying her
group's escape this gives one of the
monsters the opportunity to attack from
above and capture marshall while hunter
hides in his secret cave lair artemis
wakes up feeling rather dizzy she can
hear her teammates screams coming from
outside but she soon is knocked out
again when a nurse scala finds her the
next time she wakes up artemis is inside
a cocoon in the murcilla's nest which
luckily is thin enough for her to tear
off with her bare hands
once free she notices she is surrounded
by bones and more cocoons holding the
bodies of dash and marshall
fighting off the dizziness and the pain
artemis picks up her teammates fallen
pouch and retrieves two flares an oxygen
can and a bunch of bullets
using one of the flares is both defense
and light she walks down some kind of
hallway made of spider web and is
suddenly startled by lincoln who can't
feel his arm and is suffering from chest
pain unaware that the monsters are
following them artemis helps lincoln
walk towards an exit when her flare goes
off
in the time it takes her to turn on the
other one a ner scala appears in front
of them which artemis keeps at bay with
her new flare things get complicated
though when lincoln feels more pain on
his body and tears off his shirt only to
find out there are hatching eggs on his
wound the nere scala grabs him and takes
him away and when it tries to do the
same with artemis she lights it on fire
by combining the flare with the oxygen
can causing the whole nest to burn
artemis starts climbing towards the exit
and she almost makes it when a nurse
gala grabs her leg and drags her back in
so she frees herself by throwing the
bullets she salvaged into the fire
making them explode when she finally
comes out of the cave it's morning and
the sunlight prevents the nercillas from
following her after having a freak out
about the crawling sensations on her
body she cuts open a bullet she finds on
the ground and pours the gunpowder on
the wound on her ankle then she hits two
rocks together to create a spark and
ignite the powder effectively
cauterizing the wound
afterward she goes up the hill to get a
better understanding of the area but she
only sees dessert all around her in the
storm that brought her here far on the
horizon that could be her key to
returning home but there's something she
needs to test first she throws a rock
and throws it in the sand causing
diablos to come out with a furious roar
and leave quickly when he doesn't see
her artemis continues her exploration of
the rocky area while hunter follows her
from afar and finds a shipwreck which
for a second makes her think she may
find water but the keg only has sand in
them when she enters the remains of the
ship she's jumped on and grabbed by
hunter from behind but she reacts
quickly and begins a hand-to-hand fight
both of them are incredibly skillful
fighters that keep each other on their
toes but while artemis manages to stab
hunter on his shoulder with his own
knife he still manages to overpower her
and win the fight
after tying up her hands he takes
artemis to his cave lair trying to make
her walk faster before night falls and
the spiders come out again
artemis falls to the ground and picks up
a glass shard without him noticing
before she's picked up again and taken
away at the cave hunter drinks some
water from a special contraption he made
and eats moss from the rocks but he
doesn't share anything with artemis and
when she tries to talk he makes her stay
silent because the nercillas are outside
trying to dig their way in
afterward hunter makes a special sow for
the stab wound on his chest and praise
to two little figurines he carries with
him unaware that artemis is only
pretending to be asleep and is actually
working on cutting the ropes on her
wrists with a glass shard the next
morning hunter goes out to check on the
storm and the monsters and when he
returns he doesn't find artemis where he
left her falling for her ambush
after hitting him and tying him up she
tries to drink from his water but he
kicks off the contraption so she can't
have it they cannot communicate because
they speak different languages so
artemis responds by destroying his
little altar which makes him furious
hunter jumps on her and they begin to
fight again and all the moving around
and rolling takes them out of the cave
since they can't control the rolling
hunter falls into a hole that takes him
to the nercillas's nest but artemis
catches him just in time and drags him
back up before cutting the ropes that
time off trying to show she isn't his
enemy she offers him some chocolate as a
peace offering which he tries and loves
the taste of in return he lends her his
water skin which she drinks from before
following him to the edge of the hill
area
there they managed to communicate a
little they both want to go back into
the storm but diablos is in the way
artemis thinks they should go back to
her military cars and retrieve their
weapons but hunter disagrees guns are
useless against monsters
instead he takes her to the entrance of
the nurse in his nest to explain his
idea if they can kill a spider and take
its poison they can use it to defeat
diablos artemis agrees calling it using
a monster to kill another monster and
reluctantly accepts to be bait as the
sun goes down she moves to stand in the
middle of the rocky area and sings an
army song to attract a near scholar's
attention the plan works and when a
spider shows up artemis runs in the
direction of the trap they had set up
the nere scala steps on a rope that
captures her and hunter uses the chance
to jump from above with her giant sword
and cut its head in half
they also cut off its stinger which they
take back to the lair before more
nursillas come after them at the cave
after sharing a little silly moment
hunter explains to her that the
figurines represent his family who are
now dead the next day they start getting
their plan ready the insides of the
nurse scala stinger are wrapped around
an arrow they build a trap at the
shipwreck and artemis is given armor and
weapons to train with
one is similar to a grappling hook the
other one is a set of dual blades that
can be lighted on fire when pressed
together
when the time comes to execute the plan
it goes quite well at first they release
a makeshift catapult that sends a keg
flying and it lands in the middle of a
dune causing diabolos to come out at a
safe distance from them artemis and
hunter start running towards her army
vehicles with diablos chasing after them
but they are forced to stop when the
monster hides under the sand
hunter decides to act as bait while
artemis goes to retrieve her weapons but
during his run he accidentally drops the
pouch with his family figurines
when he comes back to pick it up diablos
take the chance to come out and knock
him off
hunter wastes no time and shoots the
venomous arrow right into its eye this
enrages diablos and makes it go faster
after him but artemis distracts it by
shooting the car's machine gun
diablos is starting to feel dizzy
because of the venom but bullets are
still not enough to hurt it so it comes
closer and knocks over the car after
artemis hides in it the monster
continues to follow her when she gets
out and hunter takes advantage of this
distraction to jump on its head and
impale his sword in the middle of it
sadly it doesn't go deep enough so
diablo shakes him off his body and sends
him flying until he hits the other car
there's still a chance to finish it
though so artemis shoots her hook at
diablo's head so when it moves it raises
her with it helping her land on top of
it she pushes the sword and finishes
what hunter started effectively killing
diablos at last
since hunter is still unconscious
artemis picks up as many supplies as she
can find from the cars and cuts off a
piece of the monster's hard skin to make
a makeshift stretcher and drag hunter
across the desert with her after many
hours the wind starts picking up and
gets them in danger so artemis puts up a
tent around them and uses the emergency
army kit to keep his heart beating the
sandstorm eventually goes away leaving
them buried in sand but thanks to the
tent they both survive and easily get
out of the resulting dune after another
long walk artemis and hunter make it to
an oasis so they decide to stop to take
a break
the area is populated with tortoise-like
creatures called obseros which hunter
explains are herbivores so they don't
need to fear them when artemis comes
closer to the water to drink another
monster called cephalus comes out of it
to attack her but hunter kills it with a
swift swing of his sword to later roast
it over a fire
night nightfalls after the pair have had
their dinner and they are startled by a
sudden fire burning the oasis there's
another monster attacking one bigger
than all the ones they've seen so far
raffalo's a fire-breathing wiver a group
of scared obseros comes in a stampede
trying to escape from rafales and hunter
manages to sneak away but artemis falls
to the ground in the middle of them she
thinks she's going to be crushed when
suddenly a figure appears in front of
her it's the admiral swinging a sword on
fire to keep the absurds from coming
closer artemis stands up and activates
the fire on her dual blades to follow
his example while hunter makes it to the
edge of a cliff he also almost gets run
over if it wasn't for handler who
appears hanging from a rope to pick him
up and take him away from the edge when
all the observers are gone artemis
thanks the admiral for his help and he
surprises her by speaking english right
before knocking her out with a punch she
wakes up moments later inside a cage in
a ship while the admiral's crew watches
her they're sent away by hunter who
obviously feels guilty about her
confinement but there's nothing he can
do about it after he's gone too artemis
notices there's a hatch on the floor of
her cage so she uses the bench to
destroy the lock open the door and sneak
into the kitchen when she tries to steal
a knife she's startled by the admiral's
cat-like companion and official chef the
palico who doesn't let her take anything
it is then that hunter arrives with good
news artemis is free now he takes her to
see the admiral who apologizes to her
for the misunderstanding and removes her
shackles before explaining why he did so
in the first place the admiral is afraid
of her world and what it could do to
this one artemis isn't the first one
that has crossed over and it was from
previous visitors that he picked up her
language the thing responsible for all
this is the sky tower which lies at the
peak of the mountain surrounded by the
storm
it's a remnant of an ancient
civilization pretty advanced and
dangerous
these ancients knew how to travel
between worlds but they're extinct now
because technology turned on them and
the admiral suspects earth may have
something to do with it they're on their
way to investigate the tower but raffles
is a dangerous obstacle the admiral
proposes that if artemis helps them
defeat them they'll help her get home in
return so of course artemis accepts the
crew leaves for the mountain at dawn and
they make it to the tower after a long
arduous climb
the sky tower is standing on lava and
they think that's what powers it
allowing it to control the storm and
create a gateway to her world which
looks rather unstable as soon as they
take some steps towards the tower they
find glass shards on the ground meaning
rafales is close
after the admiral reminds them the
wyvern is weak right before it breathes
fire the team splits and gets ready to
fight rathalos burns some of the members
of the crew before landing between them
and the tower the admiral is the first
one to go after it with artemis and
hunter following him closely all of them
having their weapons on fire to be able
to do any damage
other crew members try to help as well
but raffalos pushes them away while the
tower starts lighting all the special
markers around it matching the ones
artemis had seen in her world while they
do manage to land a couple of hits their
damage isn't enough to take down the
creature rathalos chases artemis with
fire until she's forced to jump off a
cliff only to fall into a portal and
land back in her world an army rescue
group appears to help her claiming
they've been looking for her unit for a
while after putting her on a stretcher
and taking her to their plane they take
off but they don't manage to go too far
the storm appears above them again and
rathalos comes flying into this world
the monster destroys the plane and makes
it crash before going after the other
vehicles not being bothered by the
shower of bullets the soldiers are
shooting at it and killing them all by
breathing fire on them or even eating
them artemis who's managed to survive
the crash sees all this and comes up
with a plan
after grabbing two flares from the
wrecked plane she runs towards raffles
and shoots her hook at its wing stabbing
it with his knife when she is dragged
closer this enrages the beast which is
about to breathe fire on her for what
she did artemis uses this chance to
light the flare on fire burning her hand
on the process and tosses it into
raffle's open mouth burning it from the
inside
sadly this is still not enough damage to
kill the monster it raises again ready
to attack artemis but it's interrupted
by hunter who starts shooting some of
his explosive arrows one of them manages
to get inside rathalos through a wound
left by the flare and this is the final
hit needed to kill the beast at last
the admiral arrives after that telling
her they came because they couldn't let
the monsters destroy her world the sky
tower has opened another portal and
there is a creature called gormaglow on
top of it so artemis decides to go back
to the other world with them to destroy
the tower and end this cycle once and
for all
she hunter and the admiral go after the
new monster pushing it back into its
world as the chef palico joins the fight
unknown to them a mysterious cloaked
figure observes the battle from the top
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