Pity poor Kraven the Hunter — by which I mean the new movie, in theaters December 13, not the Marvel character with the same name who’s the inspiration for said movie. The character, after all, has been around for 60 years with multiple beloved comic book stories to his name (including at least one stone-cold classic, 1987’s Kraven’s Last Hunt) and a penchant for coming back stronger than before when you least expect it, as all good supervillains do. The movie, however, is another proposition altogether, and one that doesn’t necessarily feel particularly necessary at this point in time.

A vehicle for Aaron Taylor-Johnson — who superheroes audiences have already seen in both the MCU as Quicksilver in 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, and earlier in 2010’s Kick-Ass and its 2013 sequel — Kraven the Hunter is the sixth movie in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, a shared