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I'm not really sure why they went the isekai route. The plot in the games is the weakest point and the managed to make it worse.
I guess they didn't know how to make "tribal savages" relatable to Western audiences.
I have a good guess for what they were thinking.
The plot in the games could have been fine for a movie if they just embraced it and launched from there, which works for most video game movies that actually do that.
There's plenty of western players of Monster Hunter games. I think this was a self-inflicted injury in the production because old rich fucks don't get it.
Americans obviously can't wrap their head around anyone other than an OORAH soldier or a cop who doesn't do things by the book and is hated by the stupid chief being a protagonist.
In many such cases, the veteran boot/badge becomes a faaaaaather and demonstrates that by vengeance-driven violence against the other that fridged his wife and/or kidnapped some daughter figure.
"Taken" was a mistake.