The deeper they dive into the Marvel comics character options, the sillier the movies wind up, and “Kraven the Hunter” is no exception.

New 007 frontrunner Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays the titular character, his third superhero and second Marvel character (following the “Kick Ass” films and joining the Avengers as Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver).

Fred Hechinger, as Kraven’s brother Dimitri, continues to get typecast as a sniveling son/brother.

Russell Crowe has the thickest Russian accent ever as Sergei (Kraven’s real name) and Dimitri’s dad, and Taylor-Johnson and Hechinger rarely have any trace of an accent. (Sure, it could be explained by their schooling in the U.S. and partial upbringing in England, but they both seem to have also spent a lot of time with their Russian parents.)

Having faced an abusive relationship with a monster of a father, Sergei runs away from him to the Russian forest land his recently deceased mother called home, leaving Dimitri behind to continue to disappoint their father.

Shortly before his departure, Sergei died during a hunting accident and was brought back to life by a mysterious liquid provided by a local Ghanaian woman. This mysterious substance also introduced superpowers into the mix, giving Sergei animal-like instincts and behavior.

During his time alone in the woods, Sergei morphs into Kraven, a vigilante targeting folks abusing power around the world. He is dubbed “the Hunter” by the media.

Alessandro Nivola, a fantastic actor, is absolutely miscast as Rhino, the main villain of this story. His backstory seems very thin and only serves to set things up for a villain in a sequel we hopefully won’t get to this.

It feels like this review could be a laundry list of every possible thing that could be bad about a movie. For starters, the dialogue is bad, the characters aren’t well developed, the CGI is questionable and Calypso’s (Ariana DeBose) costumes were laughable. I literally laughed at how bad some parts of this were because it was just so unbelievable.

I get there is only so much that can fit into a two-hour movie and the first entry always has to introduce a lot of people and elements for world building, but it seems like the creators of “Kraven the Hunter” somehow assumed they were launching a franchise and bypassed any depth of storytelling in this movie.

To be fair, I have not seen “Madame Web” and “Morbius” yet, but this is honestly the worst Marvel movie I have seen in years.

Rating: 1/5