Arnold and Danny Glover had to outsmart the predator, as they were no match physically. But this strong, female warrior can easily take out groups of 6-7 big, bruly Frenchmen in close combat! Did her character ever learn or practice close combat? Nope ... But she is an awesome woman nonetheless - and the men were toxic so who cares? Also she kicked the predator's butt with brawn and technological wizardry - just as expected from a slim Native American girl. Oh, wait ... it subverted my expectations. That's good, right? No. Woke trash.
Someone in these comments asked for a definition of what "woke" means. This is what the term means to me: Someone who thinks themselves morally superior to everyone else in history and who thinks about other people as part of a group and according to a hierarchy of value - where women and ethnic/sexual minorities are at the top, while white, straight men are at the bottom.
They also want to make movies who display such an utopia. If a movie paints ALL the women and ethnic/sexual/gender minorities as good, smart or powerful, and ALL the white, straight men as either stupid or evil - then the movie is most likely woke. If there is a mix - then the movie is not woke.
Yup, a lot of commenters here being crybabies that their franchise is “woke” now because…of what exactly? I seriously want just one person who uses “woke” as a pejorative to tell me what they think it means.
Surprised that ‘recipe’ review didn’t get downvoted with the rest of them. Maybe they tricked some of you into thinking they were being clever with their “Disney woke sauce” nonsense.
Interesting recipee this one. It's like a meal that will make you not hungry. To call it a meal that would make you full would be unfair as that kind of meal usually leaves a satisfying feeling. This one, doesn't. You're not hungry, but also not full. Still, here is the recipee and it's ingredients:
- 1 predator
- 1 interesting historical and cultural setting
- 1 beautiful cinematography
- 1 unlikable, childish and annoying main character
- fresh multiple male bully/bad guy characters (please note that they MUST be male, but bully or bad guy, any will do just fine)
- action scenes
- special Disney woke sauce
Preparation:
Take 1 predator, interesting historical setting and beautiful cinematography and mix it all together and leave it on the side. While the mixture is on the side, season the main character with stubborness to go well with childish behaviour, add superhuman strength and endurance to go well with character's sex and just a pinch of bully side characters to complement the unlikeability of the protagonist.
Once the initial mixture is ready and you have your main character nicely seasoned and ready, time to add your action scenes. These will give a pleasant feel for the taste buds.
As a preference, it would be nice if you could find some fresh social commentary, preferably historicaly inacurate, as long as you have a bad white guy character, add it, any type will do. Preferrably the one that tortures and mutilates animals, but any will do.
Once you have your additions, add some special Disney sauce. This is up to you how much you want to add, depending of the preference and how much you are used to it. For North American taste, we would recommend adding a lot of special Disney woke sauce. There's never too much. For the rest of the world be sure not to add too much as it might overwhelm the taste buds. It is always recommended to taste the mixture during preparation. Experienced taste buds from conoisseurs will always recognize if there is too much Disney's special woke sauce. Especially for those who read Icheckmovies cookbooks. If you put too much and force it, it is always recognized and doesn't go well. So be careful with the sauce.
Once you have everything ready bake everything for 1 hour and 40 minutes.
After it's finished, garnish with a little girl's admiring gaze towards a strong main protagonist.
Serve and "enjoy". This will leave you not hungry but you might want to have some after snack to nibble on afterwards. Reheating your dinner from the night before, like 1987 Predator.
So basically everyone who saw it loved it except people who think "woke" is an actual word.
That should tell you who should watch it and who should skip it.
It's a cool popcorn movie. That's all there is to it. Is it realistic? Hm... since when does a Predator movie have to be realistic?
When I say Prey is the best Predator movie, I say it without the nostalgia normally attached to the original. Many will say "best since the original". Despite originating the creature (which will always make it relevant), I find its 'roided-out gunplay not all that interesting. Now put the monster in gorgeous locations in 18th-Century America, going up against Comanche hunters using not much more than Stone Age tools, and you've got my interest, because while a "slasher" in which all the victims are action heroes is interesting, but the technological gap in Prey feels much more desperate. Amber Midthunder is great as a young woman who wants to be a hunter despite her culture's expectations, but she's smarter than most of her tribe, so she has a chance. French trappers (some with abominable accents, I'm afraid) act a secondary villain/cannon fodder, and really give a sense of a land being encroached upon, not just by the Predator, but uncapitalized predators as well. Tender hearts might want to be warned that there is some violence to (CG) animals, but aside from the ugly colonials, there a many characters you actively cheer on and hope for their survival. It's still a Predator film, so some of it is a little predictable, but there's just enough a twist to keep things interesting. I think they hit on a way to rehabilitate this long-suffering franchise and it's to dispense with the machine guns and put the creature up against historical warriors - samurai, maybe, or Boxer Rebellion fighters, Viking, Roman legionaries, what have you.
IMO, a more than worthy entry to the Predator Series (I'm a diehard fan of the original and the Predator character).
Actually, sort of a back to basics and did it nail it \m/
Very solid movie, beautiful cinematography, great leading actress and an action packed, well-paced flick (notably was able not to overdo too much).
Definitely brought back memories about the original, which was great.
Also enjoyed the Predator itself: fearsome, fearless, deadly and yet mortal.
Recommended.
Decent effort but the gushing reviews on this have left me scratching my head a little.
The dialogue is functional at best (I couldn't watch the Comanche version) Didn't care for the acting prowess of the main character, i've seen her in a couple of other things before so that wasn't a surprise. There's also a little audience preaching when it depicting the French Canadians as knuckle dragging troglodytes... just what everyone wants from a Predator film - social commentary!
However with that said, considering how unwatchable the previous few Predator installments have been this was a pleasant surprise and fairly close in quality to Predator 2
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Ferneu
They woked Predator...BLJNBrouwer
If it bleeds, it can kill itself...Zeltaebar
Arnold and Danny Glover had to outsmart the predator, as they were no match physically. But this strong, female warrior can easily take out groups of 6-7 big, bruly Frenchmen in close combat! Did her character ever learn or practice close combat? Nope ... But she is an awesome woman nonetheless - and the men were toxic so who cares? Also she kicked the predator's butt with brawn and technological wizardry - just as expected from a slim Native American girl. Oh, wait ... it subverted my expectations. That's good, right? No. Woke trash.Someone in these comments asked for a definition of what "woke" means. This is what the term means to me: Someone who thinks themselves morally superior to everyone else in history and who thinks about other people as part of a group and according to a hierarchy of value - where women and ethnic/sexual minorities are at the top, while white, straight men are at the bottom.
They also want to make movies who display such an utopia. If a movie paints ALL the women and ethnic/sexual/gender minorities as good, smart or powerful, and ALL the white, straight men as either stupid or evil - then the movie is most likely woke. If there is a mix - then the movie is not woke.
Sien
https://genvideos.org/watch?v=Prey-2022#video=3doIWhJ-_o7RojvyfooUk9J_TZzqcoKehQ6Ty1YScream1008
Yup, a lot of commenters here being crybabies that their franchise is “woke” now because…of what exactly? I seriously want just one person who uses “woke” as a pejorative to tell me what they think it means.Surprised that ‘recipe’ review didn’t get downvoted with the rest of them. Maybe they tricked some of you into thinking they were being clever with their “Disney woke sauce” nonsense.
boulderman
Very good, a horror, not scary but horrific. Good drama, great action choreography, pacing and acting. Recommended 7/10Emiam
6/10Viaplay
Good stuff! Exciting.
Bligor
Interesting recipee this one. It's like a meal that will make you not hungry. To call it a meal that would make you full would be unfair as that kind of meal usually leaves a satisfying feeling. This one, doesn't. You're not hungry, but also not full. Still, here is the recipee and it's ingredients:- 1 predator
- 1 interesting historical and cultural setting
- 1 beautiful cinematography
- 1 unlikable, childish and annoying main character
- fresh multiple male bully/bad guy characters (please note that they MUST be male, but bully or bad guy, any will do just fine)
- action scenes
- special Disney woke sauce
Preparation:
Take 1 predator, interesting historical setting and beautiful cinematography and mix it all together and leave it on the side. While the mixture is on the side, season the main character with stubborness to go well with childish behaviour, add superhuman strength and endurance to go well with character's sex and just a pinch of bully side characters to complement the unlikeability of the protagonist.
Once the initial mixture is ready and you have your main character nicely seasoned and ready, time to add your action scenes. These will give a pleasant feel for the taste buds.
As a preference, it would be nice if you could find some fresh social commentary, preferably historicaly inacurate, as long as you have a bad white guy character, add it, any type will do. Preferrably the one that tortures and mutilates animals, but any will do.
Once you have your additions, add some special Disney sauce. This is up to you how much you want to add, depending of the preference and how much you are used to it. For North American taste, we would recommend adding a lot of special Disney woke sauce. There's never too much. For the rest of the world be sure not to add too much as it might overwhelm the taste buds. It is always recommended to taste the mixture during preparation. Experienced taste buds from conoisseurs will always recognize if there is too much Disney's special woke sauce. Especially for those who read Icheckmovies cookbooks. If you put too much and force it, it is always recognized and doesn't go well. So be careful with the sauce.
Once you have everything ready bake everything for 1 hour and 40 minutes.
After it's finished, garnish with a little girl's admiring gaze towards a strong main protagonist.
Serve and "enjoy". This will leave you not hungry but you might want to have some after snack to nibble on afterwards. Reheating your dinner from the night before, like 1987 Predator.
Enjoy...in the after snack.
BadFluffy
So basically everyone who saw it loved it except people who think "woke" is an actual word.That should tell you who should watch it and who should skip it.
It's a cool popcorn movie. That's all there is to it. Is it realistic? Hm... since when does a Predator movie have to be realistic?
armyofshadows
A very good and original action film that stands on its own from the other Predator movies. Hulu has proven itself with actionbaatsokeisari
I share the sentiment with chunkylefunga. The hype and praise is unfounded.But compared to Predators, The Predator and AVPs, this is a decent movie in the predator franchise and easily in the top 3 of them.
PieterBe
They couldn’t bother hiring real French actors, so they just hired American and gave them lines that were translated with Google Translate.Siskoid
When I say Prey is the best Predator movie, I say it without the nostalgia normally attached to the original. Many will say "best since the original". Despite originating the creature (which will always make it relevant), I find its 'roided-out gunplay not all that interesting. Now put the monster in gorgeous locations in 18th-Century America, going up against Comanche hunters using not much more than Stone Age tools, and you've got my interest, because while a "slasher" in which all the victims are action heroes is interesting, but the technological gap in Prey feels much more desperate. Amber Midthunder is great as a young woman who wants to be a hunter despite her culture's expectations, but she's smarter than most of her tribe, so she has a chance. French trappers (some with abominable accents, I'm afraid) act a secondary villain/cannon fodder, and really give a sense of a land being encroached upon, not just by the Predator, but uncapitalized predators as well. Tender hearts might want to be warned that there is some violence to (CG) animals, but aside from the ugly colonials, there a many characters you actively cheer on and hope for their survival. It's still a Predator film, so some of it is a little predictable, but there's just enough a twist to keep things interesting. I think they hit on a way to rehabilitate this long-suffering franchise and it's to dispense with the machine guns and put the creature up against historical warriors - samurai, maybe, or Boxer Rebellion fighters, Viking, Roman legionaries, what have you.Moresbi
IMO, a more than worthy entry to the Predator Series (I'm a diehard fan of the original and the Predator character).Actually, sort of a back to basics and did it nail it \m/
Very solid movie, beautiful cinematography, great leading actress and an action packed, well-paced flick (notably was able not to overdo too much).
Definitely brought back memories about the original, which was great.
Also enjoyed the Predator itself: fearsome, fearless, deadly and yet mortal.
Recommended.
MrDoog
Decent effort but the gushing reviews on this have left me scratching my head a little.The dialogue is functional at best (I couldn't watch the Comanche version) Didn't care for the acting prowess of the main character, i've seen her in a couple of other things before so that wasn't a surprise. There's also a little audience preaching when it depicting the French Canadians as knuckle dragging troglodytes... just what everyone wants from a Predator film - social commentary!
However with that said, considering how unwatchable the previous few Predator installments have been this was a pleasant surprise and fairly close in quality to Predator 2
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