Film Review: Kraven the Hunter sends Sony’s Spider-Man Cinematic Universe out on an expected whimper [Video]

Much like fellow Johnson, Dakota, Aaron Taylor-Johnson has his heroic potential thwarted (and how!) in the long-delayed Kraven the Hunter, a misguided actioner that ends Sony’s Spider-Man Cinematic Universe with the type of whimper we’ve come to expect from this poor Marvel offshoot that wasn’t even allowed to feature the very character it based itself around.

After a trio of Venom films that dwindled in quality over their release, Jared Leto’s embarrassing Morbius, and this year’s early misfire Madame Web, Kraven the Hunter is arriving at a point where any excitement over these anti-heroes and their origins is at an all-time low.  It also doesn’t help that after multiple release delays, J.C. Chandor‘s well-intentioned actioner is fighting its way into theatres just as Sony announce the end of this series, which only adds further incentive for audiences to not check out something that literally has no future, despite the fact that the Richard Wenk–Art …