

Constructing a makeshift stretcher, Artemis dutifully carries him across the desert. The attack is successful, with Artemis delivering the finishing blow, but the Hunter is badly wounded.
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Artemis learns how to fight using the Hunter's unique bladed weapons and helps him set a trap for the Diablos to kill it with Nerscylla venom. The Hunter reveals they will need to kill the Diablos in order to cross the desert safely and reach the tower. Artemis learns that the portals are created by the Sky Tower, a structure located across the desert. Above ground, she runs into the Hunter, and after fighting each other, they grudgingly agree to cooperate. Artemis wakes up in a Nerscylla lair, finding her team dead or infected with Nerscylla spawn, and escapes the lair by setting the pursuing monsters on fire. Artemis is injected with a paralyzing venom, and as the others try to save her, more Nerscyllas arrive and swarm them. The survivors hide in a cave, where they are attacked by a pack of monster-sized spiders called Nerscyllas.

The Diablos, impervious to bullets and grenades, attacks and kills two members of the squad. As the Diablos approach them, the Hunter, who is observing the group, fires a warning signal. A sudden storm pulls them into a portal to the New World where they find the remains of the missing soldiers and their vehicles. Army Ranger Captain Natalie Artemis and her United Nations security team search for a missing team of soldiers in the desert. In the New World where humans co-exist with a wide variety of large and savage monsters, a Hunter, a warrior trained to hunt and kill these powerful creatures, is separated from his team when their ship is attacked by the Diablos, a horned subterranean monster. It received a nomination at the 19th Visual Effects Society Awards, in the category Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature. The film grossed over $44 million worldwide against a production budget of $60 million and received mixed reviews, with praise for its action sequences, visual effects, musical score, and the performances of Jovovich and Perlman but criticism for its direction and editing. Monster Hunter was released to theaters during the COVID-19 pandemic, by Sony Pictures Releasing (excluding Germany, China and Japan), opening in China on December 4, 2020, and in the United States on December 18, 2020. Principal photography on the film began on October 5, 2018, and was completed on December 19, 2018, in Cape Town, South Africa. The film was formally announced by Capcom in October 2018, with production starting that month with Constantin Film.
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The film follows Artemis (Jovovich) and her loyal soldiers when they are transported to a new world, where they engage in a battle for survival against enormous monsters with incredible powers.Ī film adaptation based on the series has been in conception since 2012 by director Paul W. The other cast members include Tony Jaa, Tip Harris, Meagan Good, Diego Boneta, Josh Helman, Jin Au-Yeung, and Ron Perlman. The film stars Milla Jovovich in her fifth outing together with Anderson as director and herself as lead actor. Anderson, based on the video game series of the same name by Capcom. Monster Hunter is a 2020 monster film written, directed, and produced by Paul W.
