Monster Hunter: World received 17 negative reviews on Steam on December 3rd. On December 4th, as of this writing, it’s gotten 1,092. Scroll through them and you’ll see a common thread: Knees.”Good game, dirty racism movie,” says one review, which sums up the cause of Monster Hunter: World’s sudden review bomb. The Monster Hunter film adaptation directed by Paul WS Anderson premiered in China on December 3rd, and a joke from early in the film has since been gathering attention (and anger) across Chinese social media. One of the American soldiers in the film throws out the line “What kind of knees are these? Chi-knees.”Great writing in the Monster Hunter movie… pic.twitter.com/jTRnKOClCiDecember 4, 2020As pointed out by analyst Daniel Ahmad, the pun hasn’t been well received. “It’s being linked to the rhyme / phrase ‘Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees – look at these?’ which is considered offensive,” he said.That rhyme has been around for decades, and a cursory Google search will bring up plenty of writers talking about how it’s long been used as a racist jeer. Whether the film’s pun was an intentional reference or not, it clearly hasn’t landed well with Chinese audiences.We haven’t been able to verify tweets…