![]() ![]() ![]() This could have been handled so much better. Here, he’s just killing wolves.Ī woman walking through the wilderness unimpeded is not a story. In the first two movies he is explicitly tracking down the most badass people he can find: AKA, our protagonists. There isn’t even a threat or antagonistic force. The only trick that spares this from being so boring we shut off the TV is the occasional interspersal of scenes with an invisible Predator fighting poorly rendered CGI animals. There is nothing else in the plot until the Predator is revealed during its duel with the bear. But it’s not interesting.ĭanny Glover knows something not human is killing his boys in blue, and goddamnit if these Feds would get off his back he could get to the bottom of it! Arnold knows that he’s being hunted in this motherfuckin’ jungle! Naru…ĭecides to wander off in the woods, without any idea of what she’s getting herself into. This excuse for a plot works only as an excuse. It literally hasn’t done anything yet except, maybe, spooking a cougar, and some flashing in the sky. In any case it’s exceptionally uncompelling that she would singularly set her mind to going after the Predator. It’s clearly intelligent maybe it’s a sasquatch? Some sort of demon? A devil of the White Man? She doesn’t know where it is or what it is or what she’s looking for or why she would want to hunt it at all. Naru is motivated, sure, but there’s no particular motivation for her to be hunting this Predator. She proceeds to wander through the woods for the next forty minutes. We understand why she goes out on her own. This is handled by the screenwriters in the most eyerollingly trite way possible, with dialogue out of a feminist comic book, but it’s decent enough clay to work with. She’s bucking tradition, finding her way in a man’s world. She will hunt this strange newcomer from the sky, whose singular offense is skinning a snake, and show that she’s just as good as any man. As her tribe moves on, she’ll stay behind. She sees an opportunity and makes a decision. Yet here she sees a spaceship in the sky, and she’s spotted the footprint of a strange creature (that’s definitely not a bear). In the first act she attempts to kill a mountain lion, but despite having every advantage in the fight she is summarily humiliated and nearly killed. If you really need me to say it, the answer is GOD NO. And so could it be true? Is there finally a good Predator movie? I thought the pitch was good, so I rolled up to Hulu to watch it. Colonial Marines 13 players say it’s the best movie in the franchise. Prey, the new movie, is getting fantastic reviews. ![]() Predators truly are the ultimate monster movie villain. What’s cooler than a predator? Really? No film in the series compares to Alien or Aliens, but the central idea behind an honor-coded intergalactic big game hunter is so phenomenal that it almost doesn’t matter. Predator games I played endlessly as a kid. The entries since have ranged from utter dogshit ( The Predator) to tolerable ( Predators), but it’s what surrounds the franchise that so enamors me. I don’t even think the first movie is very good, although it has its moments. Predator is the franchise I like the most despite enjoying the least. It may also be a soft-reboot after the colossal failure of The Predator (2018), as, like The Force Awakens, it’s effectively a remake of the first Predator (1987) but with a girl. In fact this Prey (2022) is a prequel to the Predator franchise. This film has nothing to do with the excellent Prey (2017), a game about fighting aliens on a spaceship nor does it have anything to do with Prey (2006), a game about fighting aliens on a spaceship, which even more confusingly also stars a Native American as its protagonist. She must conjure all her wits to evade French trappers, mountain lions, grizzly bears, and ultimately overcome an extraterrestrial predator if she wants to secure the safety of her people-and prove that even a woman can be a hunter. In Prey, it’s hunt or be hunted for a young Comanche woman on the American plains of 1719. ![]()
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