Kraven the Hunter - Review

[@jbearclowater]

"There's been over a century of movies at this point, someone should have learned lesson on how not to make a movie this bad by now." Wow.

[@eternalfailure4081]

I know, right

[@Salomonkein1992]

:o

[@LuznoLindo]

That's the sad thing: Some people simply don't care about learning from history, thinking they can just do thing better than those that came before them.

[@IAteFire]

@@LuznoLindo and the irony is that the key to doing better is learning from the past

[@josephfisher426]

And even if you do, aren't you supposed to dump them in January?

[@nathansmo]

Dan, please don't ever drive five hours to see a Sony Spider-Man-less Spiderverse movie again. We care about you.

[@DigiRangerScott]

What if he drives 6 hours to watch two?

[@fabolousjada5070]

Idk venom was fire 😂

[@asianmalaysianable]

He does it so we don't have to. He's not the hero we deserve but the hero we need right now.

[@LARKXHIN]

Hmm 🤔 ​@@DigiRangerScott

[@horatiogamble7036]

He and Scoops McGhee​@@asianmalaysianable

[@maartenvandersteen5134]

I felt so bad for Dan I actually listened to the whole ad at the end 😅

[@ValgardDerithos]

I thought exactly the same. In fact, I'm writing this very review while listening to the ad.

[@JCIce007]

May God have mercy on his soul.

[@kelechi321]

SAME

[@jamesonharwood6310]

Same same

[@ivanpabon2741]

Fucking same. Poor guy

[@johnnnyoddity]

Kraven may be awful, but this review was excellent. Existential crisis, career introspection, top notch storytelling, Jeremy Jahns shoutout, road-weary Dan baring his soul. Your drive was worth it, Dan!

[@RainyCage]

Agreed!

[@RockneOliver]

This one is a masterpiece. It's fun to watch Dan become unhinged at a movie. ;)

[@DannyIAH]

His review was a better movie than Kraven The Hunter.

[@matthewrouge]

You said it!

[@brianng8350]

@@RockneOliverI like unhinged ranting Dan, but this one is just depressing…

[@jbearclowater]

Commenting so that Dan gets more engagement after the turmoil of travelling to and sitting through this movie.

[@Amouroso]

This film got Dan questioning his entire career and life choices 💀😭

[@fatmanjstyle5306]

🤣

[@Erasureeraser]

Driving out of town to see this movie is magnificent 😅

[@brianng8350]

If you look at it this way, this might be his movie influential film for him, in a bad way… stop KZbin, stop reviewing movies…. Not since Jaws that made him love cinema…

[@Nisarga7]

Dan's expression on the thumbnail is all the info I need😂.

[@CJKhaos]

It dies tell quite a story

[@DeaconofPlague]

It legitimately made me happy when I saw the thumbnail on my phone

[@studynot757]

Honestly? Half the time I just look at his thumbnails to get the take 😂

[@wachinimagaming4898]

I could tell by the thumbnail he didn’t like it, wasn’t expecting the movie to have essentially crushed his soul 😂

[@Adamsbrown81]

I think this is the first movie review I've watched where the movie pushed the reviewer into a state of existential dread and nihilism. Thanks for all you do, Dan!

[@Phelie315]

Hahaha, I thought it couldn't get worse than Cats!

[@cenanuffz]

If you ever watched Spoony movie reviews, that was like every week lmao.

[@Teatime25]

"She died and I never saw her again." "Yeah, no shit. That's what "dying" is. That's what makes it so sad." I loved everything about this comment, particularly the disdain with which it was uttered.

[@TabalugaDragon]

"He became mute in 2010. We haven't spoken since then"

[@erikburke7210]

I laughed out loud

[@katevand]

This review is going down in history as perfection.

[@cjc2]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@wachinimagaming4898]

I don’t think I’ve ever heard him cuss on his channel, so that caught me off guard, gave me a good laugh, lol

[@TomHoseason]

Based on Dan's reaction, I think we need to add "Existential crisis" to the bottom of the ratings chart.

[@jenrose1002]

I completely agree!

[@bruceboa6384]

+

[@MysteryMii]

Dan really almost sounded like he was on the verge of a mental breakdown while describing his experience watching the film.

[@madmaxmedia]

Thank goodness for alcohol!

[@Sharpe1502]

“She died soon after and I never saw her again.” I’m dead. I’m seeing this. 😂

[@asid1818]

I never saw Sharpe1502 again

[@davechan8613]

“He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders just before she died and I never saw her again.”

[@claus_valca]

Me too 😂 Pray for me

[@Outlier68]

I truly couldn’t believe it either. It was so bad as to be laughable.

[@KeithFraser82]

"People die if they are killed."

[@catwmn2345]

"Peta Parker" 😂😂 *chef's kiss*

[@kingofnonation5843]

😆 💀

[@TheVileOne]

I also saw it last night. i can confirm that Dan Murrell is using no hyperbole and is in no way exaggerating.

[@pattheplanter]

I am sorry for your loss.

[@WhyteLis21]

He's exaggerating, I feel. I thought, this movie was just okay like many that came before. There are questionable choices for making this movie though. Lol.

[@shazbaar02]

"PETA Parker" 🤣😆🤣😆🤣

[@malkav81]

Sounds like that joke might have been the best thing about this entire movie. Lol

[@Rexx1326]

Beat me to it.

[@SimonBuchanNz]

Oh, I was going to go for "Peter Park Ranger".

[@annekeener4119]

That is hilarious given every other characterization I have ever heard of Kraven the Hunter. Usually he is instead a crazy, obsessive hunter constantly testing himself against the most dangerous game he can find, including villains and heroes. I guess if you are trying to make him more sympathetic you go with the PETA angle, but it goes against everything people know about him.

[@andrewglisson4596]

Made me laugh out loud

[@Kingmax00]

Listen, I've been following Dan for years now. I don't think I've ever seen a movie beat the love of the art out of him like this before😂

[@iamjro]

😂😂

[@JordanSorensen]

Cats. It’s always Cats.

[@amandaparler2080]

I mean, this take was not as impassioned as his yelling about the changes of aspect ratio in Transformers 5, but maybe that means this movie was actually worse.

[@asianmalaysianable]

The Borderlands review was the closest to this. Check it out

[@PrayerofSerenity14]

“”She died soon after that and I never saw her again” …yeah, no shit, that’s what dying is” 😂 Also a 5 hour drive is crazy. I appreciate how hard you work to make these videos for us, Dan.

[@dbagette]

Now that's a line that deserves a poster. Kinda like Walking Dead's Don't Dead, Open Inside 😁

[@WhyteLis21]

He's over exaggerating to me. It was not that bad for me. Lol.

[@GauravSharma-dy8xv]

Morbius: its morbing time Madam web : Its webbing time Kraven: its kraven time

[@johans3164]

Rhino: Its Horny time

[@KeithFraser82]

"Stand back! I am beginning to krave!"

[@scottnapier943]

Move over Morbius! It's Kraven Time!!😂

[@apoplexiamusic]

Sony didn’t understand that the audience was "Kraven" for a good to passable film

[@husker4life109]

He’s Kraven a hunt

[@referencegirls]

@@husker4life109 *Kraven the Hunt!

[@brianh3253]

😂

[@Corbomite_Meatballs]

We're Kraven some decent Marvel/Sony movies, that's for sure.

[@TonyDingus]

Dan driving 5 hours to see this movie is crazy

[@Cassie00111]

I wonder is that 5 hours each way? then 10 hour driving round trip. omg.

[@ChrisSears_KY]

@@Cassie00111 Pretty likely a trip from Little Rock to Dallas, which is five hours one way. ETA: Possibly Memphis, which is five hours round trip. So, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@mroctober3657]

And apparently drinking before the drive home.

[@jmurphy0684]

Even if it’s only 2 1/2 each way, that’s still too much!

[@MrBrock314]

@@mroctober3657 He's literally staying in a motel while filming this. He'd be driving back the next day.

[@andyn2854]

If it’s any consolation, Dan, your resounding “stay away” for this film is a service to any of us foolish enough to have still hoped that maybe, maybe something about it would make it worthwhile.

[@Muggle1983]

(Shamefully raises hand) 😩 i really like Aaron Taylor Johnson so I was considering giving it a go. Thank you Dan for bringing me to my senses.

[@markbrierley6367]

I saw the trailer and knew it wouldn't be good, but might have some good in it so I thought about giving it a shot. Guess not.

[@VivaciousOM]

True.

[@ZentaurFTW]

Same here

[@JBouch33]

His "Stay away" means I NEED to see it. I NEED to see how bad it is.

[@RedBeard_34]

7:45 Thanks to Dan's Extended Spider-verse reviews I now have a bonified trilogy of "stay away" films to remind myself of just how good life is having not wasted my time seeing any of them 😊

[@TheFreakazoid777]

See this is why I love Dan, when he goes off like this on a movie, you know it’s TRULY bad. A lot of other critics or reviewers would have a reaction like this to a “just ok” movie.

[@jenrose1002]

Absolutely agree!

[@apoplexiamusic]

That "no shit" at 4:51 made my day 😂

[@RayMcElroy50]

AVI ARAD has ruined so far... * Borderlands * Venom: The Last Dance * Kraven The Hunter * Daredevil (2003) * The Punisher (2004) * Elektra (2005) * Fantastic Four (2005) * X-Men: The Last Stand * Spider-Man 3 * Bratz (2007) * Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance * The Amazing Spider-Man 2 * Ghost in the Shell (2017) * Venom: Let There Be Carnage * Uncharted (2022) * Morbius And now he's gonna ruin... * Legend of Zelda * Naruto As long as Arad lives, there's no hope

[@percyweasley9301]

😂😂😂😂

[@MysteryMii]

Thankfully he’s getting pretty old so he may not be around for much longer

[@PaperMario64]

I was giggling at this list until I saw my beloved LOZ 😮 oh no 😥

[@terrymcginnis01]

He might live forever and continue to be paid millions by Sony. It is what it is. He has authority and will never willingly give up his control over these properties.

[@haileyquinnzel]

What? The Spider-Man movies & let there be carnage was good lol

[@TBAaron90]

I know it’s gotta be painful to do these types of reviews sometimes, but as a fan, I love getting a classic Dan rant every now and then 💯

[@jbearclowater]

The Jeremy Jahns shoutout was strange to me, in a way. It was great, but it's like seeing your gym teacher at a restaurant. Worlds colliding.

[@MrThompson88893]

Jeremy was on movie fights years ago

[@rjeizzay9619]

Do you think you're the only person who knows of them both?

[@GomuGear4]

The Film Critic Cinematic Universe is finally coming together

[@johans3164]

@@GomuGear4 Already unironically better than Sony Spider-manless Universe craps

[@righteouswillie]

My man said "the fact that Avi Arad produced borderlands and this movie in one year should equal some sort of criminal charges." 😂😂

[@jjdaire]

"May God have mercy on this movie's soul." {Drops mic}

[@Coolcoolcooldude]

I don't think I've seen Dan this defeated. Not angry, just defeated. But at least these movies are over.

[@jepmcnair6494]

My man traveled and got a hotel room to see this movie. I'm sorry, Dan!

[@T_R_O_Y_McClure]

At least it goes down on paper as a business expense.

[@Sonzee87]

Man I feel sooooo bad for Dan that he had to endure all that traffic and travel to watch THIS movie. I think I can feel his pain through the screen when I watch him. I thank you for your service for us that you took it upon you to watch this so we would not have to.

[@HarmonyWithHunter]

We still appreciate you Dan!!! Even when the movies are terrible it's still nice to hear it from a trusted source

[@rampantrambling]

"should yield some sort of criminal charges" is crazy lol

[@TakeDrewMovieReviews]

Dan had me cracking up a lot in this review, but this one had me really laugh out loud

[@Creech786]

This one made me spit my water out.

[@tonyilias2561]

This is 1 of Dan's best reviews of all time. Let's show him a lot of love and support on this video for the great sacrifice he just made 🙏

[@KenTheMan407]

Thanks!

[@andymcgriffy]

Movies like this is why i couldn't be a critic. I love analyzing stories and reviewing them but if i had to do it for a movie that i didn't want to see, I would not be happy. Thank you for your sacrifice

[@SimonBuchanNz]

Any movie that I can at least talk about afterwards is a movie I'm ok with seeing. This did not sound like one of those.

[@JamesLawner]

Also, I remember reading that this movie was gonna adapt the Kraven’s Last Hunt storyline, and recently I came to the realization that Venom 3 could’ve been called, “Venom: The Last Hunt”, and Kraven would’ve been the villain, and it basically could’ve been like Kraven’s Last Hunt, and Kraven gets the symbiote midway through.

[@veganpeace7890]

Peta Parker, I almost spit out my water!!!

[@kennethchia4194]

I feel bad for Dan driving five hours each way just for this

[@Mr.Monk2G]

Thank you Dan, for suffering through this for us. I gave the video a thumbs up, watched the ad break at the end, and clicking on the sponsor link. Loved the shoutout to Jeremy. You're the best!

[@colleen4ever]

I so want them to do a team up!

[@edyy2014]

My first time watching any of your reviews. My heart goes out to you driving 5 hours, I drove 5 minutes & im pissed I couldn’t imagine 5 hours/10hours round trip. You got a new subscriber out of it at least 😅

[@alansimonis8283]

Somehow the hushed tones of "Hotel Dan" makes this roast even more brutal. It's got big, "I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed" energy.

[@jenrose1002]

So very true!

[@rsrocha1984]

Avi Arad was one of the main people to fight Kavin Feige in marvel against the idea of a common cinematic universe. That's all you need to know about him and movies.

[@pattheplanter]

Perhaps he is still trying to bury the concept.

[@schizzo8959]

I wish he succeded.

[@mohdamerulaidilbinrazisahm7317]

I'm pretty sure that Sony make a deal with Kevin Feige in secret. Make sense actually.

[@JesssL]

Thanks Dan, for taking one for the team!

[@vincenthalfprice9930]

I love that we're 4 years removed from Dan's departure from Screen Junkies and this gentleman is still blessing us with Honest Trailer names. *"PETA Parker"* is solid gold 😂

[@DanMurrellMovies]

Sometimes I just have to drop one in there - that was always my favorite part

[@vincenthalfprice9930]

@DanMurrellMovies that's my favorite part too. I hope Kraven didn't break you too badly, love your channel and been a fan for over 10 years. I hope your next movie review helps rebuild your love of cinema and doesn't make you question your life choices. haha

[@Erasureeraser]

J.C. Chandor, what are you doing? I'm honestly shocked to know that he directed it. I'm a fan of this guy, I think he's one of the most underrated directors working today. From Margin Call to All Is Lost to A Most Violent Year to Triple Frontier, I've been championing him a lot as a filmmaker and I think he has every opportunity to make a great movie. But man, it seemed like he met his doom the moment he signed on for Kraven 😢 I hope he goes back to maybe his indie routes like he used too and make movies that felt actually personal to him instead of something like this 🤷

[@motherplayer]

And to have to basically use the excuse "Give it a chance." as if the Hollywood system doesn't win if you already paid for the ticket, regardless of your feelings afterward, that was quite disappointing to hear too. I'm not stupid enough to not know that much when it comes to tickets.

[@Corbomite_Meatballs]

This movie feels like the kind of "Alan Smithee" thing that gets made so people can keep their SAG cards, and so the studio gets a tax writeoff.

[@SJPace1776]

5:45 - Sheesh, I feel for Dan.

[@Priiskii]

It just drives the point of how a bad movie can take away peoples valuable time

[@-datrandomdude-6979]

Hollywood really should get rid of Avi Arad

[@BirbalBonifaceMusoba]

3:31 i just love how calm Dan is when he completely hates the movie - God, please give this temperament 😂

[@Cassie00111]

5 hour drive to see Kraven the Hunter! Yikes.

[@mykeljewell]

1:55 the PETA Parker bit is 👨‍🍳 💋

[@slimjimnyc270]

P.S. My son & I went to see Megalopolis based on your recommendation. You were 100% correct in your assessment. I personally think in 20 years, it will have a cult following. Have a great week!

[@johndebono1870]

I had a two week period where I lost my job, broke up with my ex, and my grandpa died... And I somehow wasn't as emotionally broken as Dan was after seeing Kraven the Hunter.

[@themikereda]

You just KNOW Dan was proud of that "PETA Parker" line

[@jaynabb1462]

“Hey Sony, how do you put yourself in more debt?” “Have you heard of Kraven?”

[@melissacarter334]

All the hugs Dan and thanks for taking one for the team ❤🎉 The review was hilarious 😂❤

[@zacharymccoy7091]

As Rhino says,"With great horns, comes great horniness."

[@Vlandrik92]

Well that very clearly makes the decision of War of the Rohiram vs this for our theater trip for the week. Thanks!

[@stagewalker]

As soon as I heard ‘Avi Arad’, a lot of things suddenly made sense about Kraven and Borderlands

[@luis_discovery]

Thank you Dan for your sacrifice 😂

[@LARKXHIN]

"Yeah no shit. That's what dying is." 💀

[@bjlfbs8506]

I love the honesty haha. We don't get enough unabashed honesty these days. I love how you call out the bad acting, bad script and direction. Really appreciate the honesty. Very refreshing :)

[@katevand]

Thank you Dan, for driving from home to see these bombs. Also Peta Parker, winner of YT reviews

[@DraganMarkovic-c3j]

This great review, along with your enthusiastic belief in finding [at least some] good in every movie, reminds me of critic Wilfrid Sheed, who once wrote that “no film is ever so bad that you can’t find some virtue in it”. After Otto Preminger’s "Hurry Sundown" was released in 1967, fellow critic Rex Reed reminded Sheed of this statement, suggesting he must not have seen "Hurry Sundown". In response, Sheed simply remarked that “to criticize it would be like tripping a dwarf.”

[@Hideotronic]

You’re saving a lot of people their money and for that I appreciate you

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

"He's given a magic super-hero potion by a random African girl." There are so many problems with this.

[@Eff_It]

Yeah, she was Tanzanian.

[@jessrl8025]

I had only listened to the first few minutes of the review when I made my last comment, but I felt the need to come back after the review and say that I'm so glad Dan became a critic. I know movies like this are challenging, but I'm so happy to have someone I have come to trust who will subject themselves to horror shows like Kraven so we don't have to.

[@mahiknight]

Hi Dan! Just found your channel just recently. I loved your work back with Screen Junkies back in the early 2010's and it's refreshing that you've carved out your own little content stream here on your own personal channel. Cheers!

[@matanm6829]

@4:43 Sounds like a worthy opponent to Shirou Emiya's "people die if they are killed" line.

[@SimonBuchanNz]

At least there's a translation barrier and a weird plot that (kind of) explains that one. Is Sony going to claim their movies are better in the original Japanese?

[@sheraldhill2728]

Needed the laughs today Dan… thank you for the work you do and Happy Holidays!

[@thetruemandalorian2637]

It's okay Dan, you can rest now. You can rest.

[@RonnieBarzel]

“This also contains one of the worst lines of dialogue that I’ve ever heard in any movie.” To be fair, “He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died” didn’t make it into the Madame Web theatrical cut.

[@RonnieBarzel]

@@migueljacome8039 Nope, it infamously disappeared after the trailers.

[@TrappyJenkins]

I love when the thumbnail says it all

[@gsentinel4821]

I really think that Sony is just trying to retain the film rights to Spider-Man and the related villains/characters, quality of films be damned - they will do all they can to milk it dry to avoid it reverting back to Disney.

[@Brahmabullz]

"An accent that's definitely an accent"😂🤣

[@RafCole]

Oh Dan, you suffered through Kraven so we wouldn't have to. That's like throwing yourself on a live grenade for us. You're a hero.

[@jenrose1002]

Dan = Captain America 🎉

[@williamking2782]

I'd love to see Dan have to defend this movie in a movie fight.

[@KeithFraser82]

"This movie makes all other movies better by comparison."

[@allen604]

I can't wait for the Pitch Meeting for this. Something tells me its going to be "super easy, barely an inconvenience."

[@hallowedground4101]

I'm sorry for your pain. The good news, is that it makes for a hilarious review!

[@MikMortsllak]

"I drove 5 hours in order to see Kraven the Hunter" I'm sorry but 🤣🤣 And please more trains in the US.

[@PixieMermaid-fz9rt]

Kraven having Dan questioning his life choices is on a whole other platform of bad 😅 While it was a rough road trip, your viewers appreciate your honest reviews and I hope you get worthwhile views on this video to make up for the crazy experience.

[@echecroi]

"She died soon after that, and I never saw her again." That has to be one of the FUNNIEST lines I've ever heard in my entire life. LMAO!!!

[@Obsidian0Sky]

This is the best review of a movie I will never watch. Dan I appreciate you taking the trek. I’m Still smiling as I write this lol

[@oklaclarinet]

Ariana DeBose has followed up winning an Oscar with roles in Wish, I.S.S., Argylle, and Kraven the Hunter. Hopefully her team up with Ke Huy Quan in Love Hurts marks a bit of an upward trend.

[@pianist150]

I know you were definitely proud of yourself when you wrote down "PETA Parker" and you know what, you should be

[@vicki_vale89]

Not the criminal charges 🤣🤣🤣 I don’t think I’ve ever laughed this hard at one of Dan’s movie reviews. Thanks for taking one for the team man!

[@kstepko]

PETA Parker 😂 Oh, Dan … you’re the best.

[@tchillove]

Slightly disagree on the death approach, in comic books related movies the superheroes and the villains could die and resurrect on several occasions.

[@jacobsquest1036]

Dan I don’t always love your takes but videos like this remind me why I’m a fan

[@VivaciousOM]

“Like some kind of PETA Parker.” Gold, Dan, gold.

[@Bullz_eye47]

The part when Mikasa Ackerman suddenly shows up and said "It's ackermaning time" truly a crossover moment of all time.

[@davedujour1]

I was expecting to hear "Please don't" after the end tag of "Are you heading out to the theater to see it this weekend?"

[@Yesyoushine]

Dan said this movie made him drink and rethink his life’s choices😂😂😂

[@kenthehobo]

That thumbnail 😂

[@carlgranados7106]

I hate how they are now turning the DC and Marvel bad guys into movies. These characters where never designed to stand on their own and they have no purpose except to have colorful campy bad guys for super heroes... instead of boring "normal" bad guys. In other words these companies have run out of ideas and interesting super heroes so they are now scraping the barrel for anything in their inventory to expand their "universe" and make more money.

[@andrewlamoureux3808]

Why the hell does Avi Arad still have a job?!?

[@rmarkley79]

LMAO, that line about dying and never seeing them again, your reaction of "yeah, no shit" had me cracking up!

[@GodMcQueen]

*These Sony Pictures 'Marvel' movies have to be intentionally bad, right?*

[@Badficwriter]

Sometimes I think so. Revenge against Marvel or somesuch. The Netflix Daredevil showrunner had started working on the Sinister Six idea...the current Sony product is without any overall good creator control. The producers treat them worse than the old comic book movies. I remember Red Letter Media accusing Adam Sandler of deliberately making bad movies as a scam, and that's what the Sony movies feel like. Spiderverse squeaked by because it was a cartoon and under the radar.

[@Alexe-hs6hv]

The fact that Dan sounds like he enjoyed Hot Frosty more than Kraven the Hunter tells you something