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I think it's hugely overrated by the critics for obvious reasons (deification of films with certain demographic boxes checked). The writing, unfortunately is pretty weak once you stop and think about it and the MC had zero character growth. IMO, while it's not the worst film I've ever seen, this one doesn't even come close to the first entry in the franchise. I also think it's pretty laughable that the actress thinks her character could actually take Dutch in a fight. Uh ... no, she couldn't.
It's good but doesn't have shit on predator 1987. predator 2 is also underrated imo. Many people finally recognize it as a, good sequel .. It's the third best predator flick. It's a bit overrated but definitely a good predator movie. One still reigns Supreme as a classic though. 1 predator 1987 2 predator 2 3 prey 4 predators.. The rest is crap
@I have a playstation fetish dude chill it's just a movie.. Maybe he does like it more. Me myself I don't like it more. The thing I hate the most is that they didn't show the predator's kills properly in some instances. If they would have done that the movie would be much better imo
They thing I liked about prey is how “invisible” wouldn’t even have a term. And the reaction to the lasers and why bullets weren’t working and the curiosity of the bomb.
@@Mickeymouse7727 For people of another nationality and language it can be hard to write a phrase on plain and clear english. You arent wrong for saying that he didnt wrote it well, you re wrong for being a jerk while doing it
I kinda liked how they suggested the predator titrated his weapons, and use of tools to match his opponent or opponents. Offering his adversary a sort of fairness. It seemed, anyway
Bullshit, that bomb he used, what obsolete weapon system was that supposed to match up with? And yeah, using the cloak with prey that had nothing close to that level of tech, yeah, totally interested in fairness this "predator" was...
This movies okay actually it’s a good movie but I didn’t like the way the predators looked aesthetically, they could’ve done way better it doesn’t look scary. Also could’ve done without pushing the woke agenda. I mean is the next predator gonna be a transgender vegan predator come on?
@@michaelbuettner1487 people put too much thought into woke, this isn’t a remake is it? Which means it’s original work, which also means it’s ok to make the character whatever they want and it doesn’t instantly mean it’s woke it’s ok to have different actors acting, let’s not just gatekeep lol
@@connorkenway09 yes it is but these Arnie meat 🥩 suckers Stan so hard for P1 when 2 is miles better 🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️ Kevin Peter hall fleshed out the predator more ima leave it at that
@@periechontology rotten tomato is trash 🗑 and because the lore came from P2 not P1 and Kevin Peter Hall had more screen time as the predator giving him more to fleshed out the character that’s why is better
Yes the main character is a woman, but the movie never says she’s better than the men or that she beats the predator because she’s a woman, she’s not a marry sue. She struggles and fails over and over again, she’s an actual character. She reminds me of heroines like Sarah Conner, who struggles and fights and never gives up. And that line about her wanting to be a hunter because others say she can’t, I find that very relatable because, if someone tells you you can’t do something, you automatically want to prove them wrong. That’s not woke, that’s human.
I love how this Predator was objectively smaller than it’s counterparts by comparison throughout franchise, but you don’t see anyone fixating on how he was able to lift a fully grown bear easily over his head, despite his size. Im not sure if a lot of the nay sayers about this movie will let themselves believe that women are actually people and can be written as such, to have their own unique personalities, strengths and weaknesses LOL. They’ll be damned before they let female protagonists look and act differently than what they think the perfect heroine SHOULD be 🤦🏻♀️ On the one hand I would have loved a little more insight for her motivations to become a hunter, how she developed her tracking skills, etc. On the other hand I’m glad the film didn’t go into a huge clunky exposition dump about her life, we were given the space to simply accept that it was just what she wanted to do, while the movie immediately tossed us into the action while the Predator hit the ground running.
I've said this earlier but Naru lived in a historical period where gender/sex defined the norms. You couldn't hunt if you were a women because you weren't seen as physically capable. A stronger man could go in your place, increasing efficiency of the hunt. Plus she lived at a time where a scrape was a death sentence. It wasn't seen very useful to send out a child bearer that could cause serious implications to the longevity of your tribe if something were to happen to her. Fitting 21st century beliefs into an era that was established by the filmmakers as operating within our realm of reality is literally the very first thing they teach you NOT to do in history and philosophy class.
@@Marlesden i rewatched it right after watching prey and the op is right, the original is a better movie overall. i liked this movie but it had far more issues than the original.
It really bothers me how some people talk about Naru being a marry sue when she struggles to survive through the whole movie. She didn't even managed to kill the lion in her first hunt. It's like any movie now with a female lead having any type of development or grow is taken by some people as a "woke agenda" something something. Fking great movie. Blows my mind that took this long to Fox to realize that all they needed to revitalize this franchise was going back to the basics. I how we get more of these "Yautja through the ages" kind of movies. Bring my World War 1 trenches Predator hunting.
Yeah I hate woke crap, Mary Sue's etc. But Naru fails multiple times. She also beats the predator with smarts rather than braun. If this was woke then she'd be kicking everyone's ass from the beginning. She'd have killed the bear with her bare hands and killed the predator with a roundhouse.
@@stonecold6521 She literally flipped it on its ass....That should not be possible for her. And she beat down multiple grown men on her on some John wick shit.
Prey is a good movie, but Predator 1 & 2 represent the lore and the essence of the franchise. Predator 1 is amazing for the action, suspense and terror. Predator 2 gave us the lore, the culture and the weapons of the Yautja. Prey have good cinematography, but the Feral Predator is more like a gladiator. The Jungle & City Hunter from Predator 1 & 2 are real hunters. I miss when Predators were related with the demons.
Spot on. The first two Predator movies will probably never be surpassed. Prey almost went there relating them to demons. I'm guessing there is stuff that was left on the editing room floor that went more into the Thunder Bird mythos and the "monster" stories the Comanche were told as children. I feel like what holds Prey back from being in the same tier as the first two movies it's editing. It's too tight. It needed to breathe in a couple of spots. That is so important in movies like this.
I love the “visual” storytelling. The marsh that returns later, her noticing how the homing darts work, and the whole rabbit hunting scene where she’s throwing her axe and having to collect it every time so attaches the rope to pull it back, and ending in a clip of her walking away from camera with a plentiful bounty of rabbits on her back.
v haha...an axe made of stone that cuts so deep and with the help of rope comes off so easily that too at her hand.In no way a rabbit can be killed with that. A visual storytelling that doesn't show how it works,how she kills a rabbit with that axe.
I love how much time the film takes in the first half. We get to be there with Naru as she travels and it's just really quiet and peaceful. I'd watch a three hour film of just that.
I would absolutely classify her as a young warrior lol but I like that the film allowed us to see her fail, experience doubt, learn and adapt. It made her victory all the sweeter. Great video as usual 👌
Agreed, she didn't seem like she was OP out of nowhere, she just felt more confident in her abilities vs trying to utilize other people's way of hunting when that wasn't her strength. That yell she shouts out after the kill is so satisfying 😍
the thing that bothered me with that predator is that this one was really easy to win for the protagonist and the predator was never able to injured her even when he grab her by the neck
The predator knows his weaponry, right? But he conveniently forgot about it when fighting Naru's brother and then Naru. Why? Because he should have known the arrows won't hit where he was aiming his weapon, but where the lasers from its mask were aiming. So it makes no sense the predator to aim his weapon to Naru if he knew he wasn't wearing his mask
The arrows will head a significant distance in the direction he is aiming before going to where the laser is. What is dumb is the absolutely comical head tilt from the Predator once it noticed the pointer was on it.
@@joshuabonesteel2303 if that the case, the arrow would've hit Naru before changing direction, because the predator was at a very short distance from her when he shot the arrow. Wouldn't it?
Nah. The original was amazing, and the sequel was too. I loved Prey, a lot. But that's because it went back to the original themes of a group being hunted by a ruthless adversary.
@@FilmSpeak Considering this was the first predator movie I have seen, and having only watched the Comanche version, this is not only one of the best monster thrillers, but one of the best movies I have ever seen. The genius use of environment, and the protagonist(s) familiarity with it are what set this film apart from so many movies you see today. I still need time to process all of my thoughts since I started this video right after watching it, but I am certain that this has the potential to start a wave of more mainstream blockbuster films that are not made solely for an English speaking audience.
@@conkeithador7218 Where I am it is only on Hulu, but even on there it is very hidden all the way in the extras and versions tabs. On Disney Plus (if this version is on there at all), I would assume that it would be under the extras or versions tab as well. It could also be that on D+ you have to access it through the audio and subtitles menu once you start the movie.
Naru felt so relatable to me (this coming from a Hispanic kid in 2022). She wants to prove herself in something she views as important in helping her community, and even though she’s constantly discouraged and yet she has the will to pull through. But when faced with a close family member doing the same thing but better, she starts to lose confidence, there’s this aura of her not being able to live up to her brother’s accomplishments and it gets to her, it’s only after using unorthodox tactics, her intellect, and a bit of support from her brother: the hyper skilled, badass that naru thought she could never live up to, does she start to succeed
Except unlike you Naru lived in a society that shunned disobedience from gender norms. I get that people call this movie woke because it's taking the modern view of powerful, masculine women and injecting it into past-century believes that were motivated by sex/gender. It's like when the devs of Battlefield 5 put a woman with a prosthetic limb into ww2. Naru gets discouraged by the men who think she can't do it because that's what they believe, but that's alright because those were literally the norms back then. Regardless, consider yourself lucky to be able to challenge gender norms and take advantage of new opportunities. Naru, realistically, could never have experienced what you can now.
The whistling she did when she was baiting the predator is a native american taboo that if you whistle at night it will attract evil spirits. The level of respect they had in this portrayal of comanche is unbelievable.
Nah. Didn't care about the main character. The dog was the best character in the movie. The Predator vs the French colonists was cool and taking 5 mins to reload was pretty funny. It should have been the girl, her brother and the dog. Give them some personality and chemistry. For me, it doesn't beat the first 2 Predator films. I'm starting to appreciate Predators a bit. The Predator 2018? Lol, it can stay in the trash where it belongs.
i agree 100%, it was pretty aight compared to the other movies, besides predators, for me pradators is slightly better then prey. Both are fun but mid movies, but conpared to the trash in betweetn they seem amazing
Why Dances with Wokepoints can't kill a deer, lion, bear or a bird, gets captured by Frenchies but can defeat a Predator... Because Message... Daisy Ridley approves of this performance.
I try to agree with this but can't. The first is so underwhelming to me and I feel the love is just because it was the first. In prey, this shows the predator and what they are about by establishing what the whole race is about. In the original one I only knew his code and what he was doing killing them only because ik the general idea of what he is supposed to be. If I watched the first one the first time I would've just thought its an alien killing peope just because
The dialogue and acting was so immersion breaking for me that I was left watching only looking forward to when the Predator would trash on bad guys all the while knowing Naru was not going to die because, well, 2022 Hollywood.
If they make a sequel to this I almost hope it doesn't take place in the same setting. Especially since the flintlock and the art that ran under the credits heavily suggest the Predators come back having learned some valuable lessons and kill everyone then take the pistol as a trophy. That's not great. For now I can pretend that the Predator found it while out for a stroll because they left it behind after running out of gunpowder or whatever.
It’s a good movie. Better than the last one for sure. Was it good enough for a theatrical release? Probably. But I totally get why the studios held it back for streaming. The last one sucked so bad it nearly killed the franchise. Is it the best one ever? No not really. To me first one is the best. What this new one lacked was a great big cast with good chemistry. Something that makes the first one iconic. You can’t beat the lead up to the jungle with all those 80s action heroes on the chopper. The leads for the new movie were good but they made this almost a solo deal for the most part. A duo deal at best. The problem with Predator franchise at its heart is that it’s the same story since first one: _namely, battling with and surviving the war with the Predator(s)_ all with varying degrees of execution. And that’s what this one did better than the previous one. Better execution but in the end it is still the same story. Which is why for my second favorite movie I liked the 2010 one better. It is the only that tried something novel (the game reserve planet idea) since the first one and did a decent execution. Adrien Brody was pretty good as the lead. But even then it reverted to the same dynamic of battling with and surviving the war with the Predator(s). In the end, the Predator franchise, I feel needs to think of a new dynamic cause so far they simply change the setting and the warriors. If they cannot do that then they are creatively bankrupt and each movie will have diminishing returns. Much like The Terminator franchise.
Nothing beats the first predator movie. But Prey is definitely the best movie to portray the predator. Even predators felt like a fan film that tried to focus on an interesting crew that fights a master hunter. What made this and predator special was the bare bones survival against a force of nature using nothing but sticks, rocks and wits. When they try to go past that it loses its intial draw in the first place. Lore is cool and all but it needs to done correctly and not just used to as filler ( like that stupid pyramids history in AvP)
I completely agree with everything you just said. I honestly just think this movie is overhyped because it’s a step up from the last predator film. My favourite predator movies are predator 1, predator 2 and predators. I’d chose predators over predator 2 any day because it’s a lot more interesting. Idk what it is but prey was just basically boring, nothing was there to keep me interested in the movie except for the very few fight scenes that occurred. Also some of the acting just seemed too douchy for me and out of place honestly, there was no need for a lot of it but I guess they had to have it so she could have character development and prove the others wrong. 6/10 for me
In Predator 1, Dutch retreated to his helicopter in exhaustion, traumatized by his Predator encounter that slaughtered all his comrades. But in Prey 2022, she returned to her tribe, proud and happy for achieving what a man couldn't, that is killing a Predator. The constant need for the glorification of a woman succeeding in a man's role is unreal. This movie is woke as hell and you praising it as the PERFECT Predator movie just speaks a loud volume about how low the general audience's standards for movies have plummeted in this woke cinematic era. That's really sad.
Love how everyone who’s hating on this is saying “she’s a 5 foot 100 pound woman using bows and tomahawks”… so? None of the predators in any of the movies are vanquished thanks to strength or technology. If anything, if you look at the first, all the commandos die because of their overconfidence in their strength and fire power and Arnold survives partly by dumb luck…
Dude, have you ever seen any of the other Predator movies?? What are you talking about?? Dutch in the OG movie was the ONLY ONE to use mainly his brains to defeat the Predator. His physical strength and fighting skills proved to be totally insufficient against the creature. Then , we had Danny Glover and Adrien Brody. No use of brain at all by these 2 obviously miscasted main characters...Just their "physical strength" in head to head showdowns...Then, 2018 The Predator, don't quite remember this parody of a film, but I remember the main Predator getting both his legs and one arm chopped off and eventually dying in a cold blood kill with several headshots...No brains in this one either...And now, Naru...She used absolute, brute physical strength and Ninja like fighting skills to defeat the Predator. Where on earth did you witness her using brains?? The flower thing and the final biomask trap?? These 2 scenes were by far the most irrational and impossible to buy plot conveniences of the whole film!!! Enough to rank Prey as equal to the 2018 film in my Predator franchise movies list, with a total score of 0/10 for each one of them...!
@@nobodyjustacreep I didn't really see an issue with the fact that the predator let his guard down around her. He had seen her plenty of times previously, bumbling around, getting trapped, he knew he was faster than her and stronger than her. He also didn't know she could hide herself from him. It may have been dumb for him to do so but it was also repeated in the film that she knew he didn't see her as a threat.
that was a big plot point in the movie too lol. Naru literally says: "You think that I am not a hunter like you. That I am not a threat. That is what makes me dangerous. You can't see that I'm killing you, and it won't either." Also, her brother admitted that he couldn't kill the lion without Naru's plan . Naru also couldn't have killed the predator without her brother and other people wearing down the predator and revealing its weaknesses first. It's ultimately about collaboration and the importance of having both strength and strategy. People who complains about her not being strong enough to kill a predator just don't know how to watch movies.
How did she knew that the predator's arrow could go full circle to kill a predator while we're shown that they can't do that during all the movies like when she saved the young hunter .Since when predator are womanizer .how was she able to know that the laser would land at the perfect position .A things that 1 shooted a bear with his first wasn't able to kill a little girl when he grabbed her by the neck She was never injured by the predator or other man except by the trap
First off, respect towards first nations in a move is awesome to see. You are completely spot on about hunting to live and living to hunt. I feel they did an excellent job of portraying a strong warrior woman. Physically, she does not have any extra special plot armour aside from her luck. I didn't think it needed to be pointed out, the predator is very injured for the final fight. She took full advantage of that to get the upper hand on it.
finally someone metioned that, i like the movie but everyone fails to see her tribe and brothers had slowly injured it to help put in more on her level in the end fight.
. How did she knew that the predator's arrow could go full circle to kill a predator while we're shown that they can't do that during all the movies like when she saved the young hunter .Since when predator are womanizer .how was she able to know that the laser would land at the perfect position .A things that 1 shooted a bear with his first wasn't able to kill a little girl when he grabbed her by the neck She was never injured by the predator or other man except by the trap
In Predator 1, Dutch retreated to his helicopter in exhaustion, traumatized by his Predator encounter that slaughtered all his comrades. But in Prey 2022, she returned to her tribe, proud and happy for achieving what a man couldn't, that is killing a Predator. The constant need for the glorification of a woman succeeding in a man's role is unreal. This movie is woke as hell and you praising it as the PERFECT Predator movie just speaks a loud volume about how low the general audience's standards for movies have plummeted in this woke cinematic era. That's really sad.
It was on a similar level to predators at best. Not quite as good as 2 and still far from approaching number 1. But of course a million times better than the predator.
The original film is my favourite movie of all time so it would have been hard to top it for me, but this film was pretty good, way better than The Predator.
Prey is truly an amazing film on so many levels.The Comanche dub plays like a myth. I have watched this film about 4 times now and keep seeing new layers of meaning in the filmmaking. Glad to see a TH-camr that understands the brilliance of this film.
@@britainbetterthanyou why LOL? Just because the film doesn’t speak to you doesn’t mean others can’t see beauty in it? I grew up in Alaska and know hunting as well as am part Native American. I see the film through my experience and I absolutely love it. And I grew up in the 80s and watched Predator 87 with my hard as nails firefighter father. I love the original and I love this as well. I also have a film degree so I can catch the deeper layers in the visual language of the film. It ok to not like it. I just expect more of a discourse then LOL. But that’s all most people are capable of these days. LOLs and laughing emojis. 🤣🥊
*Prey is the best* Me: heey hold it.. *Since the original* Me: Ok.. I'm good with that But just to give my unpopular opinion... I liked the original and Predators more than this one... and liked this one more than the second one :P And as for The Predator... I can barely even remember that movie
Very good vid. It was straight to the point, informative and entertaining. The video confirms all the reasons why I'm a fan of this movie, and this franchise as a whole. Thank you.
Predator knocks out bear with 1 punch, hits girl with giant metal shield and she doesn't feel a thing. Treads barefoot in bear trap, doesn't have a limp and runs around uninjured. The fourth best Predator film.
In one scene the Predator grabs her by the neck and to kill her, he only needs to squeeze... but suddenly, and only when facing her, the Predator becomes paralized and is often dumb.... he gets killed by HIS OWN FUCKING WEAPON!!! trash movie🤣🤣🤣
@@JDoe-gf5oz Lol. Much like Reva in Kenobi, the script was the issue, not the actress. The setting was a great idea, the attention to basic physics accuracy and continuity was the major flaw.
@@JDoe-gf5oz She was loud and overbearing but the director is to blame. The directors job is to reign in that crap, not let it slide or even worse encourage it. Leia was even more annoying. Let's not even mention Revas rooftop backflip to a forward roll moment.
That climax was NOT satisfying; the Predator shooting itself in the head was incredibly dumb. Does he not understand his own tech? If he’s trying to shoot her with his arrows even tho he doesn’t have his mask on, it implies he can aim manually - or at least that he has to activate his targeting laser for the “seeker” arrows. Instead, what we find out is that his targeting works regardless of if he’s wearing his mask, in which case why is he trying to shoot her with those arrows at all? If he doesn’t have his mask, the arrows are just going to fly off wherever his mask is pointing - which, for all he knows, is directly into the dirt and NOT at her - which is what they do. So yeah, it might make her smart that she set up the trap, but it also makes the Predator incredibly stupid that it works. His thought process should have been: “I don’t have my mask, I can’t target her so the arrows will just go wherever; I’m going to switch to [literally any of his other weapons].” And it IS just another version of the original movie, luring the Predator into a trap.
It's almost as dumb as the idea that covering yourself in mud which quickly dries will completely obscure your heat signature, ... rather than your body simply heating up the mud ... Which is what would happen. If you cover yourself in mud, you would just simply end up being covered in warm mud.
My head cannon is that the arrows shoot straight if the mask’s targeting system is switched off. It’s possible he just assumed the mask was switched off and the arrow would go straight, not realizing it was a trap. If that’s not the case, then yeah it was a dumb way to go, but thinking of it that way I feel excuses it
The finale for this movie really ruined it for me. The Predador wasn't beat by being outsmarted. It was defeated by somehow forgetting the very simple rules of it's equipment, which makes the writing feel real damn dumb.
@@Bubbles99718 his whole culture revolves around that equipment. How does he just forget that the thing he uses to aim his weapon isn't on him when he tries to aim it? It even has a big obvious reticle he's almost certainly trained to use. It's moronic.
@@sentor98 Well, we be delving into fictional stuff here. :) The thing stills shoots, yes? Without the targeting gizmo on it would still go in a straight line. He had idea she had it and was using it. So it's not a question of him "forgetting" but of him not realizing. Seems straightforward to me
@@Bubbles99718 Still seems incoherent to me and last I checked we didn't called unintentionally incoherent works of fiction good. Not understanding how it's weapon works is literally the one thing a character like this should do in a narrative. All of this outside the other contrivances of the scenario, like knowing exactly where the predator would stand when it tried to finish her off and knowing exactly what weapon it would use. I get that she's supposed to be a survivor and some sort of prodigy but that would take damn near if not full on superhuman levels of planning, or the longest of long shot guesses.
I agree with just about everything you've said but there's no way naru is more bad ass than Dutch. Prey makes it BELIEVABLE that naru was able to survive and finish off the feral predator. He takes so much abuse including a point-blank shot to the back of the head, so it's believable she's able to finish him off. He's tired, disoriented, severely injured, running out of weapons, missing his helmet so he can't see well at all, etc. Had the same final confrontation happened when the feral predator first arrived, and everything went the same way it did for naru, where she had the gun, knew what she knows about the predator, prepares, sets traps, everything, from the moment big beard wakes up with his leg missing, to when the predator arrives, had he just been dropped off, or wasn't severely injured, he would've annihilated naru almost instantly. It wouldn't have even been a fight scene, it would've been the predator kills naru scene lmao 🤣 but Dutch, well Dutch at least has a fighting chance physically and with his weapons. The only reason naru kills the feral predator is because he didn't kill her earlier. Had he not let her go and just killed her like everyone else it would've been over. But only because he DECIDES to let her live, does the predator get injured and disoriented and tired enough for naru to David and Goliath his ass. She's badass sure, but no one can say Taabe couldn't have done the exact same thing if not better had the predator decide to let him live the way he let naru live. We see him damn near kill it when he's fighting it hand to hand with a friggin bow and arrow. Just based on that alone you can clearly tell he could've done this. Not to take anything away from naru or say she isn't a bad ass, but even if she was male and the movie was exactly the same I would say the same thing. I still love this movie, but I was initially TERRIFIED of naru beating the predator with the power of her vagina, but they didn't do that thank God, unlike 2016 Ghostbusters, oceans 8, black Christmas, and all those other movies that bombed because they don't know how to make strong women without their main characterization being that they have a vagina and boobs and that makes them strong for some reason, but naru is a bad ass because she's intelligent. She can throw that tomahawk real good but she is mostly smart and that's what makes her bad ass more than anything else, because she's definitely not physically stronger than any of the men in her tribe. Maybe that pud that gets rekt by naru right before the predator shoots him with his spear gun, but she more out maneuvers him than brute force defeats him, but besides that dude losing, she's not on the level of strong "alpha" males like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jesse ventura, billy... billy, Carl weathers, and even Danny glover, Adrian brody, Lawrence fishburne, etc. It's just not gonna happen lmao it's not sexist to say men are objectively stronger when it comes to physical biological aspects of the male anatomy, it's just a fact, and it's doesn't mean women can't be strong or even be an outlier rarity and be stronger than a man. The same way Rhonda rousey or Amanda nunes would knock my ass out, but pretty much any male fighter would knock them out 9/10 times. The best male is just bigger faster stronger than the best female. A whole other argument for intelligence, I would say it goes by an individual basis which is smarter or not, but that's just me. But all of those things taken into account, besides prey shoving the feminist message down our throat too much, after that finally stops, the movie is non stop amazing. And like I said, they make it believable enough for me to suspends my disbelief that a 90 lb girl could take on a 400 lb 7 foot super monster, because he was so injures earlier. And that makes it relatively believable for naru to finish off the predator, at least for me.
I figured it sounded overly generic, not standing out to other tracks of the franchise even if it is original (it didn't remix Predator's theme for the 5th time).
I literally can't remember one moment of Prey's OST. Silvestri's score in the original has become iconic. So much so that he used a almost carbon copy of Predator's OST in multiple movie including Ricochet.
Yeah they’ve been CRUSHING it! I LOVE Sarah. She’s so underrated, deserves WAY more work. Hildur and Natalie too are amazing, but man Sarah’s music is just something else. Organic sounds, period accurate instruments, it has such a unique life to it all and enhances every project she’s a part of.
Prey has one or two plot holes, and several surface-level issues that reasonable people can disagree about, but is otherwise a solid, refreshing experience. We do it no favors by pretending that it comes anywhere close to touching the original.
@@Jay-og4yb I think I am, but viewers can disagree. I think Predator is about as efficient as an action movie can be. I can’t think of any structural flaws whatsoever. Prey, I would argue, is simply not as clean, nor is it free of questionable plot devices. Doesn’t mean it isn’t good, but I can’t rate it much higher than Predators.
@@Jay-og4yb can you give me any other character name in this movie (without looking) There's no well written character in the no-one would leave a mark so that their deaths wouldn't be pointless when you removed the fight scene There's nothing left no character development nothing to feel attached to the movie
Nah, it´s the same old, Predator arrives and underestimates somebody and then dies. No wonder they never surpass the original, you can´t if you keep repeating what it did. Go balls on the wall, make the Predator the lead but do it smart, make some major organisation the bad guys. Or simply return Dutch, I gotta say what Predator Hunting Ground did is interesting as hell. If you never listened to the audio tapes of that game, any fan should really give it a try. It´s on youtube for easy watching, no need to play the game.
@@LANDBACKbyANYmeans i watched the movie probably dont remember the credits if i watched them and + who watches credits thats some antisocial no friend activity
I have to admit I was very very sceptical when this title came out I thought to myself ohh nooo here we go again but.... I was damn shocked, a breath of fresh air, soundtrack , the location, the Comanche tribe of warriors and the predator its self, I was taken on a different journey on this one and it felt very good. The main character was not rushed into knowing and becoming the best straight away Naru had the learn from mistakes and adapt her surroundings, I like that about this film well done.
Same here. Especially when the announced it was straight to streaming with not a huge build up. Felt like it didn’t have the studio’s confidence. But after seeing the first trailer I was cautiously optimistic. Then after seeing I was bummed it didn’t get a theatrical release. It was so good in every single way.
@@lucymoody4927 It's still the best one by far. That movie was about the Predator while prey makes it feel like a background character that is not all that smart.
Wtf are you guys doing?? What kinda idiots watch the latest release of a franchise before any of the others? I don’t understand how someone can watch a latest release before the ones that came before it.
I thought it was a really solid movie. The action is great, the vibes are amazing, the pacing keeps you engaged and it's a pretty decent story. I feel like the dialogue could've been better and better side characters but that's my only criticism pretty much
It was OK, not bad even, but to say it was better than the original is hard to take seriously. If this was a stand-alone movie and the first theatrical release, I doubt it would spawn sequels and the series we've come to love. The whole reason the first movie became such a classic is because of the creature reveal. The original Predator was a pretty horrifying beast that killed hulking men with 80s grade military weaponry with ease. This new Predator....well, he didn't strike as much fear in my heart. Though I thought the bear scene was awesome, and it was pretty cool when he was chasing the Native warriors through that field.
OK I am sick of people treating Prey like some sort of coming of age movie. It just goes to show that we are so starved of genuine brilliant films that when a decent one comes out (especially one that exceeds expectations), we just shower it with praise. I truly believe we need to go back to differentiating between enjoying something and straight up claiming it's the best or making it out to seem like some sort of masterpiece. For example, I really enjoyed The Black Phone but I won't sit here and tell you it's the greatest horror movie of the past 5 years or something. I would respect this video more if the title/take was along the lines of "Why I love Prey" because objectively although entertaining, this movie has a lot of issues. What I Enjoyed: Interesting concept of a 1719 Predator The scenery, camera work and soundtrack work very well. Showing the food chain in action was cool Main Issues: Naru did not feel properly fleshed out and seriously lacked displaying emotional range e.g. Naru's older brother was brutally killed in front of her, why on earth is she smiling at the end of the movie? This should have been played as more of a bittersweet win. Her reaction to death throughout this movie and encountering the Predator is pretty lackluster. I enjoyed that one take where she takes out the Frenchmen however, practically it just wasn't realistic for someone of that size. The final fight was just silly for a multitude of reasons e.g. Predator straight up choke slams Naru but she still gets up...what??? Would give Prey a 5.8/10. Started good but began to fall off in the second half.
Best Predator movie? I literally laughed out loud. seriously you need to give up movie reviews, if you genuinely think that. Prey was decent, but no Masterpiece like the Original.
Nah I think I’ll keep at it! Do you really struggle that badly with someone who has a different opinion than you that you need to advocate for them giving up? Really mature and accepting of you 👌🏻
@@FilmSpeak When your opinion is THIS bad you might as well keep it to yourself. I'm more embarrassed that there are people who actually watched this and agreed with your shit take. Anyhow this is the only comment I'll be leaving so as not to boost a video that's as forgettable and poorly made as the movie it's praising.
@@FilmSpeak lol I wouldn’t say give up on movie reviews but best Predator movie is a bit of a stretch and a bit clickbaity but hey well constructed video just your point are kinda meh the first one is still the best and that’s just fact because it holds up very well still.
It's a decent return to form, and an enormous improvement over the 2018 movie (not much of an accomplishment) but let's not pretend it even begins to hold a candle to the original, and IMO the second marginally beats it out.
Any Predator movie after the first had to struggle against the legendary cast of that movie and it had some of the most memorable one liners in movie history. Stallones Expendable movies tried to recreate that magic, but they don't come close. But I really like Predator 2, it "only" had Danny Glover as its main protagonist, but everything else upped game. The future it take place in reminds me of Robocop, and the dark humor also reminds of that movie. The fact the Predator was fighting on human home turf - in a city, and still was as menacing as ever was so badass + the movie expanded the lore massively. Fighting someone like a Predator will make any human an underdog - even one played by Arnold. However Prey take that part of the franchise and perfects it, no miniguns 300 years ago.
In Predator 1, Dutch retreated to his helicopter in exhaustion, traumatized by his Predator encounter that slaughtered all his comrades. But in Prey 2022, she returned to her tribe, proud and happy for achieving what a man couldn't, that is killing a Predator. The constant need for the glorification of a woman succeeding in a man's role is unreal. This movie is woke as hell and you praising it as the PERFECT Predator movie just speaks a loud volume about how low the general audience's standards for movies have plummeted in this woke cinematic era. That's really sad.
@@Waterbug1591 You are one of those who think exactly like I do about this woke bullshit that has been going on lately. I'm glad there's still some people left who think that this woke thing has become retarded as hell.
This was a stunning movie! I was particularly impressed by the actors playing the sister and brother, Naru and Taabe. They were very likable and felt authentic - and wow, did I ever root for Naru to be the victor (and her really good dog!). Judging from the end credit teaser with the predators returning, I sincerely hope a sequel is in the cards. There's so much that can be expanded on; will Naru's tribe reluctantly work with the French men as well as any surrounding tribes to fight the predators? Or are the predators returning to focus on Naru as a warrior to fight again...maybe to reward her for her victory, but with strings attached? So much to build on. Gorgeous looking movie, and an exciting addition to the science fiction/action/horror genre.
Characters and acting was sh1t as fk dude what you on about? I guess if you compare this movie to basically any movie that’s came out in the last 5 years you could say it’s decent but nothing out of the extraordinary.
This movie is great to me 8/10, I like how this movie have a gritty feel to it. But the first predator to me was scarier and I liked how in that film it showed the predator stalk the characters. Like when the Native American guy knew they were being followed was chilling to me lol. So no this movie is not better than the first one, but I did enjoy it more than the second one
You’re the other side of the same coin. I’d wager just as many people are sick and tired of you, your opinions, and the “grifters” you subscribe to. You’re a breath of the same BS. I can’t stand people that only preach to their own echo chambers for validation.
It’s good but def second place to the first predator. But it’s weird that Naru isn’t that likeable, especially compared to her brother who I really liked. Maybe they should’ve had it where he was the main character and let the predator win. She wanted to learn to hunt, he decides to train her, and his friends think she’s in over her head (which she was) then when the predator kills her he runs to the tribe and sets up a defense with the rest of them and they all get picked off one by one.
In Predator 1, Dutch retreated to his helicopter in exhaustion, traumatized by his Predator encounter that slaughtered all his comrades. But in Prey 2022, she returned to her tribe, proud and happy for achieving what a man couldn't, that is killing a Predator. The constant need for the glorification of a woman succeeding in a man's role is unreal. This movie is woke as hell and you praising it as the PERFECT Predator movie just speaks a loud volume about how low the general audience's standards for movies have plummeted in this woke cinematic era. That's really sad.
@@Waterbug1591 you and your copypaste argument lmao. Ill paste my retort. this is probably the most tired argument Ive seen, and panders to the people who havent seen it. Its also a flat out lie: at the end of the movie, she doesnt look triumphant, much less happy. She grimaces and closes her eyes and looks tired and dejected. She has to be literally shoved forward to accept the admiration from her tribe. The only person smiling at her is a little girl, who she attempts a half hearted look for, but not once does she smile or look celebratory. Just admit you never wanted to try and like the movie and cop to your bias.
@@joeyondakeys How a 5'4'' girl with literally 0 muscle mass is turned into a Super Captain Mary Sue Soldier at the end breezing her way through multiple gunmen with just an axe having literally 0 combat training upon a couple of hours being injured by a steel jaw bear trap designed to maim the Predator is beyond the understanding of any person of discernible sanity and logic. That's not the least to point out, she suffered NO injuries getting slammed and thrown around by the Predator who wrestled a jumbo-sized bear and snapped its neck with just 1 punch to its face. Oh and, she immediately figured out that her magical herbs would conceal her from the Predator's vision because she just had a Mary Sue IQ moment after seeing the Predator ignore an injured person who was sleeping on the ground and FAKING his death among other dead corpses without even knowing anything about the Predator's thermal vision. Such a convenience like she almost wrote her own script for that scenario! The entire premise of the story is based off of a girl's necessity to prove her worth being just as good as a man, or even better than a man. The show tries so hard to shroud or minimize the Mary Sueness of Naru's character by giving you a false sense of failure, for example, the mountain lion that she pierced through its abdomen with a spear, it was all her effort anyway in which her brother gave her credit for, and that her brother "STOLE" her pride for taking the easy kill because she had weakened the lion for him. That is the definition of woke. I have no idea how all these problems with the movie went past your hollow skull completely undetected. You're a living proof of the easy-to-impress general audience that will accept anything thrown at you as long as it holds the title to what you're a fan of, a blind shill with 0 critical thinking and scrutiny of what you just saw operating on a hive-minded mentality that when everyone says it's good, you're supposed to believe it's good. Naru is nothing short of a boring, monotonous and unconvincing cardboard character to be put in the storyline, if anything her dog does a better job at emoting some personalities. If you think she's a badass female protagonist, then Rey Skywalkatine in the SW sequel trilogy is a badass too. It's okay to have a shitty taste in woke Hollywood movies, bud.
She kills a predator… the perfect hunter . An alien who barehand killed a bear…. It would have made more sense if her brother left a damaged body part and that allowed her to get the finishing kill. But she had to use a magic boomerang - tomahawk and needed the predator to make a couple dozen consecutive mistakes in a row for her to win. which makes no sense. Also her stubbornness to prove herself literally got everyone involved killed too. I guess the sacrifice of her tribe members and brother was necessary. The movie is worth watching especially if you are into the modern agendas they push.
it very much is how her male tribes men act when it comes to hunting, the fact the predator doesnt understand how his own equipment works, they worked it in under a blanket of a good movie
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I think it's hugely overrated by the critics for obvious reasons (deification of films with certain demographic boxes checked). The writing, unfortunately is pretty weak once you stop and think about it and the MC had zero character growth. IMO, while it's not the worst film I've ever seen, this one doesn't even come close to the first entry in the franchise. I also think it's pretty laughable that the actress thinks her character could actually take Dutch in a fight. Uh ... no, she couldn't.
It's good but doesn't have shit on predator 1987. predator 2 is also underrated imo. Many people finally recognize it as a, good sequel .. It's the third best predator flick. It's a bit overrated but definitely a good predator movie. One still reigns Supreme as a classic though. 1 predator 1987
2 predator 2
3 prey
4 predators.. The rest is crap
I think you don't actually believe and think that Prey is a better movie than Predator. You just thought it would make a good essay.
@I have a playstation fetish dude chill it's just a movie.. Maybe he does like it more. Me myself I don't like it more. The thing I hate the most is that they didn't show the predator's kills properly in some instances. If they would have done that the movie would be much better imo
@I have a playstation fetish o yeah and the girl was a bit annoying how she had to be a hunter
They thing I liked about prey is how “invisible” wouldn’t even have a term. And the reaction to the lasers and why bullets weren’t working and the curiosity of the bomb.
Did you have a seizure writing this?
@@Mickeymouse7727 For people of another nationality and language it can be hard to write a phrase on plain and clear english. You arent wrong for saying that he didnt wrote it well, you re wrong for being a jerk while doing it
@@Mickeymouse7727 do you have dyslexia?
@@jesuscrust69 No I read term as team lol. I get it now. He kind of runs his sentences together though
@@Mickeymouse7727 reasonable, just maybe try not to be rude abt it next time? Lol
I love the shots where the background wasn't super in focus, but neither were the characters making you actively look for the predator
I kinda liked how they suggested the predator titrated his weapons, and use of tools to match his opponent or opponents. Offering his adversary a sort of fairness. It seemed, anyway
Bullshit, that bomb he used, what obsolete weapon system was that supposed to match up with? And yeah, using the cloak with prey that had nothing close to that level of tech, yeah, totally interested in fairness this "predator" was...
They've done that throughout the franchise though tbf
They've always made out that honour is of vital importance to the species, pretty cool.
This movies okay actually it’s a good movie but I didn’t like the way the predators looked aesthetically, they could’ve done way better it doesn’t look scary. Also could’ve done without pushing the woke agenda. I mean is the next predator gonna be a transgender vegan predator come on?
@@michaelbuettner1487 people put too much thought into woke, this isn’t a remake is it? Which means it’s original work, which also means it’s ok to make the character whatever they want and it doesn’t instantly mean it’s woke it’s ok to have different actors acting, let’s not just gatekeep lol
This video radiates "idk 'bout that" energy
This is a improvement over the 2018 Predator in every conceivable way!
I would think that goes without saying. I'm convinced was The Predator the equivalent of throwing a professional sports game.
Not saying much.
Not that hard, I just took a poop that was a better Predator movie than the 2018 one
@@johnmcnamara8741 I saw that poop and I agree.
@@stonecold6521 and that’s the bottom line, because you said so.
It’s not better than the first movie that movie is iconic .
Predator 2 is better than Predator.
How is Predator 2 better than Predator? LOL. It has like a 32% on Rotten Tomatoes.
@@connorkenway09 Bro… what?
@@connorkenway09 yes it is but these Arnie meat 🥩 suckers Stan so hard for P1 when 2 is miles better 🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️ Kevin Peter hall fleshed out the predator more ima leave it at that
@@periechontology rotten tomato is trash 🗑 and because the lore came from P2 not P1 and Kevin Peter Hall had more screen time as the predator giving him more to fleshed out the character that’s why is better
Yes the main character is a woman, but the movie never says she’s better than the men or that she beats the predator because she’s a woman, she’s not a marry sue. She struggles and fails over and over again, she’s an actual character. She reminds me of heroines like Sarah Conner, who struggles and fights and never gives up. And that line about her wanting to be a hunter because others say she can’t, I find that very relatable because, if someone tells you you can’t do something, you automatically want to prove them wrong. That’s not woke, that’s human.
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I love how this Predator was objectively smaller than it’s counterparts by comparison throughout franchise, but you don’t see anyone fixating on how he was able to lift a fully grown bear easily over his head, despite his size. Im not sure if a lot of the nay sayers about this movie will let themselves believe that women are actually people and can be written as such, to have their own unique personalities, strengths and weaknesses LOL. They’ll be damned before they let female protagonists look and act differently than what they think the perfect heroine SHOULD be 🤦🏻♀️
On the one hand I would have loved a little more insight for her motivations to become a hunter, how she developed her tracking skills, etc. On the other hand I’m glad the film didn’t go into a huge clunky exposition dump about her life, we were given the space to simply accept that it was just what she wanted to do, while the movie immediately tossed us into the action while the Predator hit the ground running.
Unlike Sarah Connor, the character in this movie has no character growth.
I've said this earlier but Naru lived in a historical period where gender/sex defined the norms. You couldn't hunt if you were a women because you weren't seen as physically capable. A stronger man could go in your place, increasing efficiency of the hunt. Plus she lived at a time where a scrape was a death sentence. It wasn't seen very useful to send out a child bearer that could cause serious implications to the longevity of your tribe if something were to happen to her.
Fitting 21st century beliefs into an era that was established by the filmmakers as operating within our realm of reality is literally the very first thing they teach you NOT to do in history and philosophy class.
Predator with Arnold Schwarzenegger is the best predator movie ever made, nothing can topple it’s legacy.
Have you want he'd it recently? Some. bits of it have aged really bad
@@Marlesden nostalgia is a hell of a drug
@@loowick4074 true
@@Marlesden i rewatched it right after watching prey and the op is right, the original is a better movie overall. i liked this movie but it had far more issues than the original.
@@666FallenShadow such as?
It really bothers me how some people talk about Naru being a marry sue when she struggles to survive through the whole movie. She didn't even managed to kill the lion in her first hunt.
It's like any movie now with a female lead having any type of development or grow is taken by some people as a "woke agenda" something something.
Fking great movie. Blows my mind that took this long to Fox to realize that all they needed to revitalize this franchise was going back to the basics. I how we get more of these "Yautja through the ages" kind of movies. Bring my World War 1 trenches Predator hunting.
Yeah I hate woke crap, Mary Sue's etc. But Naru fails multiple times. She also beats the predator with smarts rather than braun. If this was woke then she'd be kicking everyone's ass from the beginning. She'd have killed the bear with her bare hands and killed the predator with a roundhouse.
@@stonecold6521 She literally flipped it on its ass....That should not be possible for her. And she beat down multiple grown men on her on some John wick shit.
@@UnifiedEntity it was completely fucked up by everyone, lost an arm, shot in the head, stabbed many many times,
@@UnifiedEntity are you saying her beating multiple grown men is impossible?
@@kobelipsey0616 yes.
Naru has a partner named Sarii, the Girl and her dog.
Prey is a good movie, but Predator 1 & 2 represent the lore and the essence of the franchise.
Predator 1 is amazing for the action, suspense and terror.
Predator 2 gave us the lore, the culture and the weapons of the Yautja.
Prey have good cinematography, but the Feral Predator is more like a gladiator.
The Jungle & City Hunter from Predator 1 & 2 are real hunters.
I miss when Predators were related with the demons.
Spot on. The first two Predator movies will probably never be surpassed. Prey almost went there relating them to demons. I'm guessing there is stuff that was left on the editing room floor that went more into the Thunder Bird mythos and the "monster" stories the Comanche were told as children. I feel like what holds Prey back from being in the same tier as the first two movies it's editing. It's too tight. It needed to breathe in a couple of spots. That is so important in movies like this.
@@msscott22 nah definitely the best movie in the franchise
@@tevinrush6318 Prey? Give me a break. Not even close.
@@msscott22 definitely the best ij the franchise second is the Predators (2010)
@@tevinrush6318 You're trolling, huh. Predators is a straight up beat for beat remake of the original, just not nearly as good.
I love the “visual” storytelling. The marsh that returns later, her noticing how the homing darts work, and the whole rabbit hunting scene where she’s throwing her axe and having to collect it every time so attaches the rope to pull it back, and ending in a clip of her walking away from camera with a plentiful bounty of rabbits on her back.
But yet Predator has no idea how his own weapon works
v haha...an axe made of stone that cuts so deep and with the help of rope comes off so easily that too at her hand.In no way a rabbit can be killed with that.
A visual storytelling that doesn't show how it works,how she kills a rabbit with that axe.
@@eddiereekie2403 ikr lmao I thought that too, she also easily fell for all her traps.
Spot on analysis💪🏼
The credits kinda hint at a sequel, with 3 predator ships showing up in the end, shortly after.
No. Those ships probably come back to retrieve the body of their fallen brother and return home
I love how much time the film takes in the first half. We get to be there with Naru as she travels and it's just really quiet and peaceful. I'd watch a three hour film of just that.
I would absolutely classify her as a young warrior lol but I like that the film allowed us to see her fail, experience doubt, learn and adapt. It made her victory all the sweeter. Great video as usual 👌
Not really... They just dumbed down the predator in the end
Agreed, she didn't seem like she was OP out of nowhere, she just felt more confident in her abilities vs trying to utilize other people's way of hunting when that wasn't her strength. That yell she shouts out after the kill is so satisfying 😍
the thing that bothered me with that predator is that this one was really easy to win for the protagonist and the predator was never able to injured her even when he grab her by the neck
@@jinxedangel2 It was honestly underwhelming and also forced.
@@blakec7025 cool for you 👍
The predator knows his weaponry, right? But he conveniently forgot about it when fighting Naru's brother and then Naru. Why? Because he should have known the arrows won't hit where he was aiming his weapon, but where the lasers from its mask were aiming. So it makes no sense the predator to aim his weapon to Naru if he knew he wasn't wearing his mask
The arrows will head a significant distance in the direction he is aiming before going to where the laser is. What is dumb is the absolutely comical head tilt from the Predator once it noticed the pointer was on it.
@@joshuabonesteel2303 if that the case, the arrow would've hit Naru before changing direction, because the predator was at a very short distance from her when he shot the arrow. Wouldn't it?
@@mattiabassriffs you would think so. All I can say is her brother had to dodge the arrows even though the laser was on the tree.
This is the content I want.
. . . since the original Predator. You need to add that part..
Not better than the original by a mile. Just a solid movie here. Hopefully they do different time periods now
That's definitely the path they need to take. Give me a Predator film in Fedual Japan or Medieval Europe.
Nah. The original was amazing, and the sequel was too. I loved Prey, a lot. But that's because it went back to the original themes of a group being hunted by a ruthless adversary.
yeah the original theme of Predator was female empowerment 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 mate you're daft.
the studios must be paying you
AVP-R was dark, yeah, but the Wolf Predator was an awesome design. I'll at least give that movie that...THAT, and nothing else
No. It's not. The original is untouchable.
I highly suggest you watch the Comanche version. The setting and characters are more immersive and I think the story becomes more meaningful.
I have! It’s INCREDIBLE. The definitive way to watch the film.
@@FilmSpeak Considering this was the first predator movie I have seen, and having only watched the Comanche version, this is not only one of the best monster thrillers, but one of the best movies I have ever seen. The genius use of environment, and the protagonist(s) familiarity with it are what set this film apart from so many movies you see today. I still need time to process all of my thoughts since I started this video right after watching it, but I am certain that this has the potential to start a wave of more mainstream blockbuster films that are not made solely for an English speaking audience.
That's like saying the definitive way to watch Wong Kar-Wai is with an English dub.
How is it possible to watch it in Comanche? I only will be watching Prey only on Disney Plus any insight would be helpful 🙂
@@conkeithador7218 Where I am it is only on Hulu, but even on there it is very hidden all the way in the extras and versions tabs. On Disney Plus (if this version is on there at all), I would assume that it would be under the extras or versions tab as well. It could also be that on D+ you have to access it through the audio and subtitles menu once you start the movie.
Naru felt so relatable to me (this coming from a Hispanic kid in 2022). She wants to prove herself in something she views as important in helping her community, and even though she’s constantly discouraged and yet she has the will to pull through. But when faced with a close family member doing the same thing but better, she starts to lose confidence, there’s this aura of her not being able to live up to her brother’s accomplishments and it gets to her, it’s only after using unorthodox tactics, her intellect, and a bit of support from her brother: the hyper skilled, badass that naru thought she could never live up to, does she start to succeed
Except unlike you Naru lived in a society that shunned disobedience from gender norms. I get that people call this movie woke because it's taking the modern view of powerful, masculine women and injecting it into past-century believes that were motivated by sex/gender. It's like when the devs of Battlefield 5 put a woman with a prosthetic limb into ww2.
Naru gets discouraged by the men who think she can't do it because that's what they believe, but that's alright because those were literally the norms back then. Regardless, consider yourself lucky to be able to challenge gender norms and take advantage of new opportunities. Naru, realistically, could never have experienced what you can now.
The whistling she did when she was baiting the predator is a native american taboo that if you whistle at night it will attract evil spirits. The level of respect they had in this portrayal of comanche is unbelievable.
Love this. Love how relatable Naru was for you! That’s what’s so incredible about stories like this.
@@connorkenway09 my gf's part cree and can confirm this. I got yelled at because I was calling her cat over one evening :(
@@youseff500 nice, glad you didn't attract a yautja lol.
Nah. Didn't care about the main character. The dog was the best character in the movie. The Predator vs the French colonists was cool and taking 5 mins to reload was pretty funny. It should have been the girl, her brother and the dog. Give them some personality and chemistry. For me, it doesn't beat the first 2 Predator films. I'm starting to appreciate Predators a bit. The Predator 2018? Lol, it can stay in the trash where it belongs.
i agree 100%, it was pretty aight compared to the other movies, besides predators, for me pradators is slightly better then prey. Both are fun but mid movies, but conpared to the trash in betweetn they seem amazing
Why Dances with Wokepoints can't kill a deer, lion, bear or a bird, gets captured by Frenchies but can defeat a Predator...
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You guys apologize to women too much. The original was a classic.
ayo anyone else wondering how the predators somehow got back to the pistol lmaooooo
It isn't, that title goes to the first one.
It's not even close, in every single department the original is a far superior film.
Yeah. I really like this film but the first Predator film is still leaps and bounds better than this film.
I try to agree with this but can't. The first is so underwhelming to me and I feel the love is just because it was the first. In prey, this shows the predator and what they are about by establishing what the whole race is about. In the original one I only knew his code and what he was doing killing them only because ik the general idea of what he is supposed to be. If I watched the first one the first time I would've just thought its an alien killing peope just because
is it superior because it's the OG? I'd like to know your thoughts about it.
For real, even Predator 2 and Predators are better imo. Prey was a welcome film after The Predator but it is clearly not the best.
Prey is the movie predator wishes it could've been in the 80's.
The dialogue and acting was so immersion breaking for me that I was left watching only looking forward to when the Predator would trash on bad guys all the while knowing Naru was not going to die because, well, 2022 Hollywood.
Dutch surviving fkin nuke thats 80s Hollywood for you
Not to forget Danny Glover's character killing a yautja in a duel, very 2022 Hollywood...
i haven't watched the old predator movies, I've only watched the 2018 funny one and this, makes me wanna watch the old ones now
Do it
@@seimen4348 did watch the arnold one, i think its too old to be watched now, did have a decent watch experience
If they make a sequel to this I almost hope it doesn't take place in the same setting. Especially since the flintlock and the art that ran under the credits heavily suggest the Predators come back having learned some valuable lessons and kill everyone then take the pistol as a trophy. That's not great. For now I can pretend that the Predator found it while out for a stroll because they left it behind after running out of gunpowder or whatever.
It’s a good movie. Better than the last one for sure.
Was it good enough for a theatrical release? Probably. But I totally get why the studios held it back for streaming. The last one sucked so bad it nearly killed the franchise.
Is it the best one ever? No not really.
To me first one is the best. What this new one lacked was a great big cast with good chemistry. Something that makes the first one iconic. You can’t beat the lead up to the jungle with all those 80s action heroes on the chopper.
The leads for the new movie were good but they made this almost a solo deal for the most part. A duo deal at best.
The problem with Predator franchise at its heart is that it’s the same story since first one: _namely, battling with and surviving the war with the Predator(s)_ all with varying degrees of execution. And that’s what this one did better than the previous one. Better execution but in the end it is still the same story.
Which is why for my second favorite movie I liked the 2010 one better. It is the only that tried something novel (the game reserve planet idea) since the first one and did a decent execution. Adrien Brody was pretty good as the lead. But even then it reverted to the same dynamic of battling with and surviving the war with the Predator(s).
In the end, the Predator franchise, I feel needs to think of a new dynamic cause so far they simply change the setting and the warriors. If they cannot do that then they are creatively bankrupt and each movie will have diminishing returns. Much like The Terminator franchise.
I had no interest in watching this movie until hearing that it was really good
Nothing beats the first predator movie. But Prey is definitely the best movie to portray the predator. Even predators felt like a fan film that tried to focus on an interesting crew that fights a master hunter. What made this and predator special was the bare bones survival against a force of nature using nothing but sticks, rocks and wits. When they try to go past that it loses its intial draw in the first place. Lore is cool and all but it needs to done correctly and not just used to as filler ( like that stupid pyramids history in AvP)
I completely agree with everything you just said. I honestly just think this movie is overhyped because it’s a step up from the last predator film.
My favourite predator movies are predator 1, predator 2 and predators. I’d chose predators over predator 2 any day because it’s a lot more interesting.
Idk what it is but prey was just basically boring, nothing was there to keep me interested in the movie except for the very few fight scenes that occurred.
Also some of the acting just seemed too douchy for me and out of place honestly, there was no need for a lot of it but I guess they had to have it so she could have character development and prove the others wrong.
6/10 for me
In Predator 1, Dutch retreated to his helicopter in exhaustion, traumatized by his Predator encounter that slaughtered all his comrades. But in Prey 2022, she returned to her tribe, proud and happy for achieving what a man couldn't, that is killing a Predator. The constant need for the glorification of a woman succeeding in a man's role is unreal.
This movie is woke as hell and you praising it as the PERFECT Predator movie just speaks a loud volume about how low the general audience's standards for movies have plummeted in this woke cinematic era. That's really sad.
this cast had way more chemistry, they are all native. idk how much more chemistry you can get when sharing cultural identities
despite the number of dislikes I personally loved this movie, it was beautiful and I loved naru's brother's character as well
The only thing I am waiting on now is a predator animation rated 18 like they did Spawn animation or the recent Mortal Kombat or Dead Space.
it has the revenant feel
Love how everyone who’s hating on this is saying “she’s a 5 foot 100 pound woman using bows and tomahawks”… so? None of the predators in any of the movies are vanquished thanks to strength or technology.
If anything, if you look at the first, all the commandos die because of their overconfidence in their strength and fire power and Arnold survives partly by dumb luck…
Dude, have you ever seen any of the other Predator movies?? What are you talking about?? Dutch in the OG movie was the ONLY ONE to use mainly his brains to defeat the Predator. His physical strength and fighting skills proved to be totally insufficient against the creature. Then , we had Danny Glover and Adrien Brody. No use of brain at all by these 2 obviously miscasted main characters...Just their "physical strength" in head to head showdowns...Then, 2018 The Predator, don't quite remember this parody of a film, but I remember the main Predator getting both his legs and one arm chopped off and eventually dying in a cold blood kill with several headshots...No brains in this one either...And now, Naru...She used absolute, brute physical strength and Ninja like fighting skills to defeat the Predator. Where on earth did you witness her using brains?? The flower thing and the final biomask trap?? These 2 scenes were by far the most irrational and impossible to buy plot conveniences of the whole film!!! Enough to rank Prey as equal to the 2018 film in my Predator franchise movies list, with a total score of 0/10 for each one of them...!
My problem is in the end they just made the predator dumb.. That's how she won, the predator decided he didnt wanna be smart any more
@@nobodyjustacreep I didn't really see an issue with the fact that the predator let his guard down around her. He had seen her plenty of times previously, bumbling around, getting trapped, he knew he was faster than her and stronger than her. He also didn't know she could hide herself from him. It may have been dumb for him to do so but it was also repeated in the film that she knew he didn't see her as a threat.
that was a big plot point in the movie too lol. Naru literally says: "You think that I am not a hunter like you. That I am not a threat. That is what makes me dangerous. You can't see that I'm killing you, and it won't either."
Also, her brother admitted that he couldn't kill the lion without Naru's plan . Naru also couldn't have killed the predator without her brother and other people wearing down the predator and revealing its weaknesses first. It's ultimately about collaboration and the importance of having both strength and strategy.
People who complains about her not being strong enough to kill a predator just don't know how to watch movies.
How did she knew that the predator's arrow could go full circle to kill a predator while we're shown that they can't do that during all the movies like when she saved the young hunter
.Since when predator are womanizer
.how was she able to know that the laser would land at the perfect position
.A things that 1 shooted a bear with his first wasn't able to kill a little girl when he grabbed her by the neck
She was never injured by the predator or other man except by the trap
What's make Prey truly amazing is that the director hired actual Native Americans instead of Scarlett Johansson.
Yay someone else who likes Predators❤
👀Predator got his ass whooped!😂😂
First off, respect towards first nations in a move is awesome to see.
You are completely spot on about hunting to live and living to hunt. I feel they did an excellent job of portraying a strong warrior woman. Physically, she does not have any extra special plot armour aside from her luck. I didn't think it needed to be pointed out, the predator is very injured for the final fight. She took full advantage of that to get the upper hand on it.
finally someone metioned that, i like the movie but everyone fails to see her tribe and brothers had slowly injured it to help put in more on her level in the end fight.
. How did she knew that the predator's arrow could go full circle to kill a predator while we're shown that they can't do that during all the movies like when she saved the young hunter
.Since when predator are womanizer
.how was she able to know that the laser would land at the perfect position
.A things that 1 shooted a bear with his first wasn't able to kill a little girl when he grabbed her by the neck
She was never injured by the predator or other man except by the trap
Also lets not forget the healing medkit the preds carry
As a native American her character disgusts me
In Predator 1, Dutch retreated to his helicopter in exhaustion, traumatized by his Predator encounter that slaughtered all his comrades. But in Prey 2022, she returned to her tribe, proud and happy for achieving what a man couldn't, that is killing a Predator. The constant need for the glorification of a woman succeeding in a man's role is unreal.
This movie is woke as hell and you praising it as the PERFECT Predator movie just speaks a loud volume about how low the general audience's standards for movies have plummeted in this woke cinematic era. That's really sad.
It was on a similar level to predators at best. Not quite as good as 2 and still far from approaching number 1. But of course a million times better than the predator.
Definitely better than
The Predator shot like the no cut ww1 film 1917, I think all all predator should be no cutting action film!
The original film is my favourite movie of all time so it would have been hard to top it for me, but this film was pretty good, way better than The Predator.
Nah it’s a good movie but it will never be better then the original Predator
Fair enough! I have them VERY close to each other. Both excellent films.
Prey is truly an amazing film on so many levels.The Comanche dub plays like a myth. I have watched this film about 4 times now and keep seeing new layers of meaning in the filmmaking. Glad to see a TH-camr that understands the brilliance of this film.
LOL
@@britainbetterthanyou why LOL? Just because the film doesn’t speak to you doesn’t mean others can’t see beauty in it? I grew up in Alaska and know hunting as well as am part Native American. I see the film through my experience and I absolutely love it. And I grew up in the 80s and watched Predator 87 with my hard as nails firefighter father. I love the original and I love this as well. I also have a film degree so I can catch the deeper layers in the visual language of the film. It ok to not like it. I just expect more of a discourse then LOL. But that’s all most people are capable of these days. LOLs and laughing emojis. 🤣🥊
As a native American I find this film disgraceful
@@robertogurrola7465 disgraceful in what way? Examples.
You got lucky they erased dislike 🤣
*Prey is the best*
Me: heey hold it..
*Since the original*
Me: Ok.. I'm good with that
But just to give my unpopular opinion... I liked the original and Predators more than this one... and liked this one more than the second one :P
And as for The Predator... I can barely even remember that movie
Very good vid. It was straight to the point, informative and entertaining. The video confirms all the reasons why I'm a fan of this movie, and this franchise as a whole. Thank you.
Predator knocks out bear with 1 punch, hits girl with giant metal shield and she doesn't feel a thing. Treads barefoot in bear trap, doesn't have a limp and runs around uninjured. The fourth best Predator film.
In one scene the Predator grabs her by the neck and to kill her, he only needs to squeeze... but suddenly, and only when facing her, the Predator becomes paralized and is often dumb.... he gets killed by HIS OWN FUCKING WEAPON!!! trash movie🤣🤣🤣
It's bigotry to notice such things.
@@JDoe-gf5oz Lol. Much like Reva in Kenobi, the script was the issue, not the actress. The setting was a great idea, the attention to basic physics accuracy and continuity was the major flaw.
@@zigzag8949 Hard disagree about the Reva actress. Nothing says Star Wars like a loud ghetto black woman.
@@JDoe-gf5oz She was loud and overbearing but the director is to blame. The directors job is to reign in that crap, not let it slide or even worse encourage it. Leia was even more annoying. Let's not even mention Revas rooftop backflip to a forward roll moment.
the only thing I didn't like, was that it wasn't released to theaters, but only to Hulu! everything else was perfect.
Nothing touches the original
"Nope is PERFECT!"
"Jurassic World: Dominion is GOOD!
"Prey is the BEST Predator movie"
😐😐😐
I liked Nope but his views are so all over the place. He loves Black Widow which is just junk.
@@justinstoll4955 Yeah I'm all for having a different opinion on things but the dude does seem to exaggerate a little bit. Just a bit.
I don’t see how prey beats out the first predator in any way
And? 3 completely unrelated films I enjoy.
That’s YOUR opinion. Just as it’s mine that I like it. There’s not right or wrong opinion, that’s why it’s an opinion.
This predator movie reminded me alot of the first one. This is my 1st or 2nd favorite predator movie , really liked it.
best as in the absolute worst you mean
The answer to the title is "Because originality doesn't matter to me". And a sequel can still have originality. Think Terminator 2.
That climax was NOT satisfying; the Predator shooting itself in the head was incredibly dumb. Does he not understand his own tech? If he’s trying to shoot her with his arrows even tho he doesn’t have his mask on, it implies he can aim manually - or at least that he has to activate his targeting laser for the “seeker” arrows. Instead, what we find out is that his targeting works regardless of if he’s wearing his mask, in which case why is he trying to shoot her with those arrows at all? If he doesn’t have his mask, the arrows are just going to fly off wherever his mask is pointing - which, for all he knows, is directly into the dirt and NOT at her - which is what they do. So yeah, it might make her smart that she set up the trap, but it also makes the Predator incredibly stupid that it works. His thought process should have been: “I don’t have my mask, I can’t target her so the arrows will just go wherever; I’m going to switch to [literally any of his other weapons].” And it IS just another version of the original movie, luring the Predator into a trap.
It's almost as dumb as the idea that covering yourself in mud which quickly dries will completely obscure your heat signature, ... rather than your body simply heating up the mud ... Which is what would happen. If you cover yourself in mud, you would just simply end up being covered in warm mud.
My head cannon is that the arrows shoot straight if the mask’s targeting system is switched off. It’s possible he just assumed the mask was switched off and the arrow would go straight, not realizing it was a trap. If that’s not the case, then yeah it was a dumb way to go, but thinking of it that way I feel excuses it
Last time I check Predator dont eyes on their back (where red dots aiming at)
The finale for this movie really ruined it for me. The Predador wasn't beat by being outsmarted. It was defeated by somehow forgetting the very simple rules of it's equipment, which makes the writing feel real damn dumb.
Forgetting? He didn't know she was using his helmet.
@@Bubbles99718 his whole culture revolves around that equipment. How does he just forget that the thing he uses to aim his weapon isn't on him when he tries to aim it? It even has a big obvious reticle he's almost certainly trained to use. It's moronic.
@@sentor98 Well, we be delving into fictional stuff here. :)
The thing stills shoots, yes? Without the targeting gizmo on it would still go in a straight line. He had idea she had it and was using it. So it's not a question of him "forgetting" but of him not realizing.
Seems straightforward to me
@@Bubbles99718 Still seems incoherent to me and last I checked we didn't called unintentionally incoherent works of fiction good. Not understanding how it's weapon works is literally the one thing a character like this should do in a narrative. All of this outside the other contrivances of the scenario, like knowing exactly where the predator would stand when it tried to finish her off and knowing exactly what weapon it would use. I get that she's supposed to be a survivor and some sort of prodigy but that would take damn near if not full on superhuman levels of planning, or the longest of long shot guesses.
@@sentor98 him standing rt on that mark is definitely one of those really stupid things movies do way to often. That I 100% agree with you on.
I agree with just about everything you've said but there's no way naru is more bad ass than Dutch. Prey makes it BELIEVABLE that naru was able to survive and finish off the feral predator. He takes so much abuse including a point-blank shot to the back of the head, so it's believable she's able to finish him off. He's tired, disoriented, severely injured, running out of weapons, missing his helmet so he can't see well at all, etc. Had the same final confrontation happened when the feral predator first arrived, and everything went the same way it did for naru, where she had the gun, knew what she knows about the predator, prepares, sets traps, everything, from the moment big beard wakes up with his leg missing, to when the predator arrives, had he just been dropped off, or wasn't severely injured, he would've annihilated naru almost instantly. It wouldn't have even been a fight scene, it would've been the predator kills naru scene lmao 🤣 but Dutch, well Dutch at least has a fighting chance physically and with his weapons. The only reason naru kills the feral predator is because he didn't kill her earlier. Had he not let her go and just killed her like everyone else it would've been over. But only because he DECIDES to let her live, does the predator get injured and disoriented and tired enough for naru to David and Goliath his ass. She's badass sure, but no one can say Taabe couldn't have done the exact same thing if not better had the predator decide to let him live the way he let naru live. We see him damn near kill it when he's fighting it hand to hand with a friggin bow and arrow. Just based on that alone you can clearly tell he could've done this. Not to take anything away from naru or say she isn't a bad ass, but even if she was male and the movie was exactly the same I would say the same thing. I still love this movie, but I was initially TERRIFIED of naru beating the predator with the power of her vagina, but they didn't do that thank God, unlike 2016 Ghostbusters, oceans 8, black Christmas, and all those other movies that bombed because they don't know how to make strong women without their main characterization being that they have a vagina and boobs and that makes them strong for some reason, but naru is a bad ass because she's intelligent. She can throw that tomahawk real good but she is mostly smart and that's what makes her bad ass more than anything else, because she's definitely not physically stronger than any of the men in her tribe. Maybe that pud that gets rekt by naru right before the predator shoots him with his spear gun, but she more out maneuvers him than brute force defeats him, but besides that dude losing, she's not on the level of strong "alpha" males like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jesse ventura, billy... billy, Carl weathers, and even Danny glover, Adrian brody, Lawrence fishburne, etc. It's just not gonna happen lmao it's not sexist to say men are objectively stronger when it comes to physical biological aspects of the male anatomy, it's just a fact, and it's doesn't mean women can't be strong or even be an outlier rarity and be stronger than a man. The same way Rhonda rousey or Amanda nunes would knock my ass out, but pretty much any male fighter would knock them out 9/10 times. The best male is just bigger faster stronger than the best female. A whole other argument for intelligence, I would say it goes by an individual basis which is smarter or not, but that's just me. But all of those things taken into account, besides prey shoving the feminist message down our throat too much, after that finally stops, the movie is non stop amazing. And like I said, they make it believable enough for me to suspends my disbelief that a 90 lb girl could take on a 400 lb 7 foot super monster, because he was so injures earlier. And that makes it relatively believable for naru to finish off the predator, at least for me.
Anyone else think Jeff Cutter looks exactly like Dan Trachtenberg? 😅
Soundtrack is one of the best. Sarah Schachner deserves more film works. Her, Hildur, and Natalie Holt, female composers are really doing great.
I figured it sounded overly generic, not standing out to other tracks of the franchise even if it is original (it didn't remix Predator's theme for the 5th time).
I literally can't remember one moment of Prey's OST. Silvestri's score in the original has become iconic. So much so that he used a almost carbon copy of Predator's OST in multiple movie including Ricochet.
Yeah they’ve been CRUSHING it! I LOVE Sarah. She’s so underrated, deserves WAY more work. Hildur and Natalie too are amazing, but man Sarah’s music is just something else. Organic sounds, period accurate instruments, it has such a unique life to it all and enhances every project she’s a part of.
Prey has one or two plot holes, and several surface-level issues that reasonable people can disagree about, but is otherwise a solid, refreshing experience.
We do it no favors by pretending that it comes anywhere close to touching the original.
It does come close to the original. Take it down from it's pedestal and rate them fair
@@Jay-og4yb I think I am, but viewers can disagree.
I think Predator is about as efficient as an action movie can be. I can’t think of any structural flaws whatsoever.
Prey, I would argue, is simply not as clean, nor is it free of questionable plot devices. Doesn’t mean it isn’t good, but I can’t rate it much higher than Predators.
@@Jay-og4yb can you give me any other character name in this movie (without looking) There's no well written character in the no-one would leave a mark so that their deaths wouldn't be pointless when you removed the fight scene There's nothing left no character development nothing to feel attached to the movie
@@-DA-ONE- they have native American names, of course I'm going to have trouble remembering their names.
Why Prey gives Ghostbusters 16 a run for its money...
Nah, it´s the same old, Predator arrives and underestimates somebody and then dies. No wonder they never surpass the original, you can´t if you keep repeating what it did.
Go balls on the wall, make the Predator the lead but do it smart, make some major organisation the bad guys. Or simply return Dutch, I gotta say what Predator Hunting Ground did is interesting as hell. If you never listened to the audio tapes of that game, any fan should really give it a try. It´s on youtube for easy watching, no need to play the game.
being honest i just want to see a predator movie without the humans having plot armour aka the predator wins in the long run
@@LANDBACKbyANYmeans i watched the movie probably dont remember the credits if i watched them and + who watches credits thats some antisocial no friend activity
I have to admit I was very very sceptical when this title came out I thought to myself ohh nooo here we go again but.... I was damn shocked, a breath of fresh air, soundtrack , the location, the Comanche tribe of warriors and the predator its self, I was taken on a different journey on this one and it felt very good. The main character was not rushed into knowing and becoming the best straight away Naru had the learn from mistakes and adapt her surroundings, I like that about this film well done.
Same here. Especially when the announced it was straight to streaming with not a huge build up. Felt like it didn’t have the studio’s confidence.
But after seeing the first trailer I was cautiously optimistic. Then after seeing I was bummed it didn’t get a theatrical release. It was so good in every single way.
Niel Breen laughs at this script
Man, this comment section is really high on nostalgia
The first one is a masterpiece. Prey is just an ok movie, that’s all
right?> hahahahahahahahaaha
Correct.
The first one wasn't even that good. The monster was iconic and Arnold was on his legendary run. All the sequels are unnecessary.
@@lucymoody4927 It's still the best one by far. That movie was about the Predator while prey makes it feel like a background character that is not all that smart.
@@lucymoody4927 It was better than this. And the second one, I think, is massively under-rated.
Great work!! I literally wached all the predator movies after watching Prey!!
Thank you 😭❤️ but also…I’m so sorry hahaha
After prey, I watched all the predator movies except the 2018 one and AVPR because I've heard they're both objectively awful
@@jonathanguzman3044 the first AVP is a fun bad movie , the scond one is awful!
Wtf are you guys doing?? What kinda idiots watch the latest release of a franchise before any of the others? I don’t understand how someone can watch a latest release before the ones that came before it.
Amazing! Loved this film.
I would love to see your vidoe analysis and work on Ready Player One.
Lmao.. that title.
This movie will be forgotten about in 3 months. The original will be around forever. Endlessly quotable, great characters and practical effects.
I thought it was a really solid movie. The action is great, the vibes are amazing, the pacing keeps you engaged and it's a pretty decent story. I feel like the dialogue could've been better and better side characters but that's my only criticism pretty much
It was OK, not bad even, but to say it was better than the original is hard to take seriously. If this was a stand-alone movie and the first theatrical release, I doubt it would spawn sequels and the series we've come to love.
The whole reason the first movie became such a classic is because of the creature reveal. The original Predator was a pretty horrifying beast that killed hulking men with 80s grade military weaponry with ease.
This new Predator....well, he didn't strike as much fear in my heart. Though I thought the bear scene was awesome, and it was pretty cool when he was chasing the Native warriors through that field.
Mary Sue is what kills it.
Not even the third best
OK I am sick of people treating Prey like some sort of coming of age movie. It just goes to show that we are so starved of genuine brilliant films that when a decent one comes out (especially one that exceeds expectations), we just shower it with praise. I truly believe we need to go back to differentiating between enjoying something and straight up claiming it's the best or making it out to seem like some sort of masterpiece. For example, I really enjoyed The Black Phone but I won't sit here and tell you it's the greatest horror movie of the past 5 years or something. I would respect this video more if the title/take was along the lines of "Why I love Prey" because objectively although entertaining, this movie has a lot of issues.
What I Enjoyed:
Interesting concept of a 1719 Predator
The scenery, camera work and soundtrack work very well.
Showing the food chain in action was cool
Main Issues:
Naru did not feel properly fleshed out and seriously lacked displaying emotional range e.g. Naru's older brother was brutally killed in front of her, why on earth is she smiling at the end of the movie? This should have been played as more of a bittersweet win. Her reaction to death throughout this movie and encountering the Predator is pretty lackluster.
I enjoyed that one take where she takes out the Frenchmen however, practically it just wasn't realistic for someone of that size.
The final fight was just silly for a multitude of reasons e.g. Predator straight up choke slams Naru but she still gets up...what???
Would give Prey a 5.8/10. Started good but began to fall off in the second half.
Reeeeeeeee-aching.
Lol did we watch the same movie this film was only decent when I turned my brain off
Best Predator movie? I literally laughed out loud. seriously you need to give up movie reviews, if you genuinely think that. Prey was decent, but no Masterpiece like the Original.
Nah I think I’ll keep at it! Do you really struggle that badly with someone who has a different opinion than you that you need to advocate for them giving up? Really mature and accepting of you 👌🏻
@@FilmSpeak When your opinion is THIS bad you might as well keep it to yourself. I'm more embarrassed that there are people who actually watched this and agreed with your shit take. Anyhow this is the only comment I'll be leaving so as not to boost a video that's as forgettable and poorly made as the movie it's praising.
@@dimercamparini Or you could just…not be a dick? It’s really that simple.
@@FilmSpeak lol I wouldn’t say give up on movie reviews but best Predator movie is a bit of a stretch and a bit clickbaity but hey well constructed video just your point are kinda meh the first one is still the best and that’s just fact because it holds up very well still.
It's a decent return to form, and an enormous improvement over the 2018 movie (not much of an accomplishment) but let's not pretend it even begins to hold a candle to the original, and IMO the second marginally beats it out.
This. For me Prey was just an alright action movie, no more. The first two are amongst my favorite movies of all time.
Any Predator movie after the first had to struggle against the legendary cast of that movie and it had some of the most memorable one liners in movie history. Stallones Expendable movies tried to recreate that magic, but they don't come close.
But I really like Predator 2, it "only" had Danny Glover as its main protagonist, but everything else upped game. The future it take place in reminds me of Robocop, and the dark humor also reminds of that movie. The fact the Predator was fighting on human home turf - in a city, and still was as menacing as ever was so badass + the movie expanded the lore massively.
Fighting someone like a Predator will make any human an underdog - even one played by Arnold. However Prey take that part of the franchise and perfects it, no miniguns 300 years ago.
In Predator 1, Dutch retreated to his helicopter in exhaustion, traumatized by his Predator encounter that slaughtered all his comrades. But in Prey 2022, she returned to her tribe, proud and happy for achieving what a man couldn't, that is killing a Predator. The constant need for the glorification of a woman succeeding in a man's role is unreal.
This movie is woke as hell and you praising it as the PERFECT Predator movie just speaks a loud volume about how low the general audience's standards for movies have plummeted in this woke cinematic era. That's really sad.
@@Waterbug1591 You are one of those who think exactly like I do about this woke bullshit that has been going on lately. I'm glad there's still some people left who think that this woke thing has become retarded as hell.
Best ever? Sounds like ya jumpin the gun
I agree, I was torn, but I chose that Pray was better. :D
This was a stunning movie!
I was particularly impressed by the actors playing the sister and brother, Naru and Taabe. They were very likable and felt authentic - and wow, did I ever root for Naru to be the victor (and her really good dog!).
Judging from the end credit teaser with the predators returning, I sincerely hope a sequel is in the cards. There's so much that can be expanded on; will Naru's tribe reluctantly work with the French men as well as any surrounding tribes to fight the predators? Or are the predators returning to focus on Naru as a warrior to fight again...maybe to reward her for her victory, but with strings attached?
So much to build on.
Gorgeous looking movie, and an exciting addition to the science fiction/action/horror genre.
Let's not overreact here...=D It was just an alright movie, nothing more.
Characters and acting was sh1t as fk dude what you on about? I guess if you compare this movie to basically any movie that’s came out in the last 5 years you could say it’s decent but nothing out of the extraordinary.
Naru was the most insufferable person in this movie. Ignorant and incredibly selfish choosing her wants over the villages needs
Nothing will ever top the master piece that John McTiernan, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Kevin Peter Hall (RIP) released 35 years ago in 1987.
Naru is Jane Wick in Prey.
the crossbow only hit the laser,, why he keep shoting ???
This movie is great to me 8/10, I like how this movie have a gritty feel to it. But the first predator to me was scarier and I liked how in that film it showed the predator stalk the characters. Like when the Native American guy knew they were being followed was chilling to me lol. So no this movie is not better than the first one, but I did enjoy it more than the second one
Predator 2 is better than Predator.
@@connorkenway09 that’s a minority opinion but you do you
@@SolidPain6624 and according to people like you GTA V and Fortnite are the best games of all time lol.
Yeah fair enough! I think for me, right now, I prefer Prey, but they’re both REALLY close. Both incredible films.
@@connorkenway09 How?
So sick and tired of anti-SJW grifters in youtube. You're always a breathe of fresh air.
SJW are ruining Hollywood and their redundant feminist themes are annoying.
You’re the other side of the same coin. I’d wager just as many people are sick and tired of you, your opinions, and the “grifters” you subscribe to. You’re a breath of the same BS.
I can’t stand people that only preach to their own echo chambers for validation.
Prey is good but predator is the best!
Good protagonist
It’s good but def second place to the first predator. But it’s weird that Naru isn’t that likeable, especially compared to her brother who I really liked. Maybe they should’ve had it where he was the main character and let the predator win. She wanted to learn to hunt, he decides to train her, and his friends think she’s in over her head (which she was) then when the predator kills her he runs to the tribe and sets up a defense with the rest of them and they all get picked off one by one.
In Predator 1, Dutch retreated to his helicopter in exhaustion, traumatized by his Predator encounter that slaughtered all his comrades. But in Prey 2022, she returned to her tribe, proud and happy for achieving what a man couldn't, that is killing a Predator. The constant need for the glorification of a woman succeeding in a man's role is unreal.
This movie is woke as hell and you praising it as the PERFECT Predator movie just speaks a loud volume about how low the general audience's standards for movies have plummeted in this woke cinematic era. That's really sad.
This movie is the 5th best predator series. Predator1, 2, Predators, AvP R, Prey, AvP, The Predator
@@Waterbug1591 your literally copy and pasting your comment just cause you can’t get laid doesn’t mean you should hate women
@@Waterbug1591 you and your copypaste argument lmao. Ill paste my retort. this is probably the most tired argument Ive seen, and panders to the people who havent seen it. Its also a flat out lie: at the end of the movie, she doesnt look triumphant, much less happy. She grimaces and closes her eyes and looks tired and dejected. She has to be literally shoved forward to accept the admiration from her tribe. The only person smiling at her is a little girl, who she attempts a half hearted look for, but not once does she smile or look celebratory. Just admit you never wanted to try and like the movie and cop to your bias.
@@joeyondakeys How a 5'4'' girl with literally 0 muscle mass is turned into a Super Captain Mary Sue Soldier at the end breezing her way through multiple gunmen with just an axe having literally 0 combat training upon a couple of hours being injured by a steel jaw bear trap designed to maim the Predator is beyond the understanding of any person of discernible sanity and logic.
That's not the least to point out, she suffered NO injuries getting slammed and thrown around by the Predator who wrestled a jumbo-sized bear and snapped its neck with just 1 punch to its face.
Oh and, she immediately figured out that her magical herbs would conceal her from the Predator's vision because she just had a Mary Sue IQ moment after seeing the Predator ignore an injured person who was sleeping on the ground and FAKING his death among other dead corpses without even knowing anything about the Predator's thermal vision. Such a convenience like she almost wrote her own script for that scenario!
The entire premise of the story is based off of a girl's necessity to prove her worth being just as good as a man, or even better than a man.
The show tries so hard to shroud or minimize the Mary Sueness of Naru's character by giving you a false sense of failure, for example, the mountain lion that she pierced through its abdomen with a spear, it was all her effort anyway in which her brother gave her credit for, and that her brother "STOLE" her pride for taking the easy kill because she had weakened the lion for him. That is the definition of woke.
I have no idea how all these problems with the movie went past your hollow skull completely undetected. You're a living proof of the easy-to-impress general audience that will accept anything thrown at you as long as it holds the title to what you're a fan of, a blind shill with 0 critical thinking and scrutiny of what you just saw operating on a hive-minded mentality that when everyone says it's good, you're supposed to believe it's good.
Naru is nothing short of a boring, monotonous and unconvincing cardboard character to be put in the storyline, if anything her dog does a better job at emoting some personalities. If you think she's a badass female protagonist, then Rey Skywalkatine in the SW sequel trilogy is a badass too. It's okay to have a shitty taste in woke Hollywood movies, bud.
Can't stress how much I agree on your take about people seeing this as woke. A look in the mirror is absolutely what they need.
Yep. This is the ultimate litmus test to find out who’s prejudiced.
She kills a predator… the perfect hunter . An alien who barehand killed a bear…. It would have made more sense if her brother left a damaged body part and that allowed her to get the finishing kill. But she had to use a magic boomerang - tomahawk and needed the predator to make a couple dozen consecutive mistakes in a row for her to win. which makes no sense.
Also her stubbornness to prove herself literally got everyone involved killed too. I guess the sacrifice of her tribe members and brother was necessary. The movie is worth watching especially if you are into the modern agendas they push.
it very much is how her male tribes men act when it comes to hunting, the fact the predator doesnt understand how his own equipment works, they worked it in under a blanket of a good movie
"Second Best"
Arnold’s is the best. Pray is the worst (amazing concept)