![]() ![]() Peril includes being trapped in quicksand. The lead character and a dog both step on bear traps at different points in the movie. Characters are mauled by tigers, and there are other animal attacks. Characters die in bloody and gory ways, including spikes through the skull, arrows to eyes, decapitation, sliced chests. ![]() This is a Predator prequel, and there are many moments of strong violence throughout. Starring Amber Midthunder, Dane DiLiegro, and Harlan Blayne Kytwayhat.Parents need to know that Prey is a 2022 action-horror movie in which Comanche warriors do battle against an alien predator. If nothing else, how many other big action movies feature not one but two future US state governors? If you’re new to the franchise, I’d recommend going back to the original. The film doesn’t bring much to the franchise, but it isn’t unbearable, and if you’re of age and a fan of the dreadlocked alien, this might qualify as a fun diversion. This really is just Predator trying to be The Revenant (including a big CGI bear fight) and while it doesn’t really work, it doesn’t clash as terribly as you might expect. Standard Predator behaviour though this may be, it’s still not kid friendly. People and animals have their heads (with spine still attached, thank you very much) torn clean off their bodies, and are shot with arrows and darts, stabbed, dismembered, and skinned. Although this installment in the franchise avoids some of the sexual innuendo and profanity, it is just as bloody. Much like the original, this is not a film for children. This just isn’t your dad’s Predator anymore. I had a bigger issue with changes to his actual face, but that might just me being an 80s action purist. There’s been a pretty substantial redesign of the Predator, particularly the iconic helmet/face mask, which does fit him into the 18 th century a little more elegantly. ![]() Now, this isn’t a total rehash of the original, even if it does plod down the same gory path. Watching a different cast figure it out just isn’t compelling. Thirty-five years after the original film, we all know who and what the Predator is. It’s exciting because we as the audience don’t know much more about the alien than the heroes, and we get to figure it out with them. The fun of the original 1987 film ( Predator, of which I am a huge fan) is, apart from Arnold Schwarzenegger yelling incomprehensibly into the jungle, in learning the Predator’s abilities and rulebook so our heroes can defeat him. Now, while I love seeing a film with an almost exclusively indigenous cast, I’m struggling to come up with another good reason for this movie to exist. All but invisible, able to kill silently from a distance, and gifted with thermal vision, what Naru has found is nothing short of the most dangerous predator Earth has ever seen…yet. But what Naru has found is far bigger and more dangerous than a mountain lion. The tracks are mixed with those of a mountain lion, leading the community’s hunters after it. Her dreams of hunting and fighting seem destined to lead her nowhere, except into trouble, until she sees a strange light in the sky and finds bizarre tracks in the woods. Although Naru (Amber Midthunder) is skilled and capable, her role in the Comanche Nation in the 1700s is limited to foraging and learning medicine. ![]()
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