Prey aka Predator 5 (Dan Trachtenberg)

I mean, she just doesn't. It's established right at the start that she's almost ready, and just lacks the final killer instinct (seen with both the bird, and the lion early on). Not at all a novice. She's nearly the finished article, comes up with the successful plan for hunting the lion, and almost succeeds - but ultimately fails because she's only almost ready.

Everything in the story tells us that her strongest asset is her awareness, that she doesn't miss a thing. They show us over and over how she's the one who spots the tracks, she's the one who senses the danger, she's the one who sees behaviour patterns. And that's right from the beginning - not a trait that develops. Her brother literally says it, just in case we hadn't noticed throughout the film. And over the course of the film they specifically show us all the moments where she sees all the little pieces that will ultimately come together in that final fight.

She succeeds by being smart, studying the predator, fighting it on ground of her choosing, and when it's at its weakest thanks to her brother's sacrifice - having developed that extra killer instinct after everything we've seen her go through that saw her go from almost ready to ready.

I mean, for a genre action movie, it's really well constructed.

Did not know what to expect, but thought it was one of the best films I have watched this year. Really enjoyed it.

The Predator's crew came back and wiped out the tribe in revenge lol

I enjoyed it, the scenery was shot brilliantly. I really enjoyed the scenes with the bear and her big bro attacking the Predator on horseback , was really rooting for them!

What next? predator vs bull elephant then a lion before being defeated by some African tribesman master hunter?!!

It was an ok film overall, the setup was good but got a bit silly by the end. The lead wasnt an in your face Mary Sue, she made mistakes etc. at the same time she didnt exactly fill the screen with charisma and for a stone age girl, she adapted a little too quickly to the industrial and space age and came back to the village like she had won a trail run not had an encounter with a god like creature that wiped out all her friends and brother. I also thought I was being manipulated regarding the French trappers on the assumption that one is not supposed to know anything about what they might have been like but hey if one is meant to think French people are grunting cavemen, who am I to argue. overall while nicely filmed a forgettable 5/10

"White Knights...", "Libtards...", "Mary Sue...".

I have no idea what's going on.

Easily the best film since the original. The scenery and cinematography are gorgeous. Very good 8 out of 10 action flick, especially the last 40 minutes. On a side note IMDB used to be great for ratings. Full of sad idiots with nothing better to do than give 1 star ratings.

Watch it 10 times and then come back to us.

Ive watched the original about ten times , its a masterpiece in suspense.

most of the 1 star ratings were given before the film was released.

the indians were literally stone age, you must know what I meant?, their axes were stone, which btw their axes wouldnt last long being fcked into trees

Stone age doesn't really work in the America's it more of an old world term but yes your basically right ,

Tools & weapons would be wood or stone but they did use copper & gold for decorations,

Except it isn't "right".

The Indian tribes of the mid and southern plains had adopted metal in their weaponry by the 1600's. They still would have used bone as well, but metal weapons were in common usage. In South America, "Indians" had been mining metal since pre-Columbian times.

The thing is, the Indian tribes of the plains were largely nomadic. So setting up mining production was out of the question and their bone/flint weapon did the job just fine. It was strong enough to take down large game and it was easily manufactured. They continued to use bows and arrows of various material up to the mid 1800's because they were rapid firing and could be used from the back of a horse when hunting down the likes of buffalo which was tied into the lives of the various plains tribes. Whereas rifles were clumsy and took time to reload. When the likes of the Winchester repeating rifle became a reality, the plains Indians went to great lengths to obtain them.

Hard agree with you here, I threw on Prey without telling herself it was a predator film (for reference, theres a rule in my house, if we're flicking channels, and Predator is on, regardless of whether its just starting or almost over, it will be watched to the end).

I was a little disappointed when they revealed to the audience that it was an Alien within the first 10 minutes. The first one was great as you didn't really get a proper measure of the Creature until the film had progressed significantly.

Otherwise, I really enjoyed it overall.

yeah, I was hoping for the reveal to come later,

At least I'll always have the surprise she got halfway through 'from dusk til dawn' 😁

In hindsight the bear scene was the most "fck yeah!" moment in the film, a Predator going toe to toe and military pressing a bear was brilliant.

And then proceeded to get his ass handed to him by a 5 feet tall girl who looks like the heaviest thing she's ever lifted is a frappucino.

I dont remember her fighting the predator hand to hand.