Prey aka Predator 5 (Dan Trachtenberg)

I thought the lead was great but wasted by an unrealistic and stupid script that did not fit her physicality. It was really disrespectful to American Indian culture and historically anachronistic. While the cinematography was brilliant the many logic gaps (e.g. rope throwing axe) ruined it for me. Maybe I'm too old.

They wasted the chance to do some cool traps at the end. A few spikes on the tree bark and then completely reliant on the predator using a mini missile to finish her off which it would be unlikely for it to do as surely it'd want the person who cut off his arm as a trophy.

Really disappointing storyline with some good action sequences. The fact that they wasted a good opportunity with a very capable and likable lead frustrates me more, 2/10

Predator in the Antarctica already happened in AVP 1. incidentally that's the most financially successful Predator film to date.

As for the girl going hand to hand with the alien. Yeah , that happened! The director shot the scene using multiple fast cut edits to hide the absurdity of it. To pull the wool over the viewers eyes so to speak. Its not even clear if Naru dismembered its arm herself or made Predy chop off his own arm. It was edited down to a 'blink and you'll miss it' moment. So you're not meant to think about it , just accept it somehow had its arm hacked off and move on.

We've seen Danny Glover hack an arm off before , but that was on a defenceless Predator dangling off the side of a skyscraper. Hacking off a Predator arm on ground level in close quarters combat is something only the xenomorphs were capable of.

Amazingly that's not as ludicrous as what would happen next , the tooth scene 😅 To show Naru pull the tooth-claw out of a bears mouth and plunge it into its head would be a bit silly we can all agree. . But do it to a Predator and that's totally believable. No May Sue here. Just a normal person hacking Predy into bits and pieces with her bare hands 🤦‍♂️😆

What is a Mary Sue anyway. Lots of comments about what one isn't. But none about what one is.

The first two movies presented the hero's as butch , gung-ho , unstoppable forces of nature. By the end of the first they were all obliterated expect Arnie. He ended the film as a shell-shocked , quivering wreck. A hollow shell of what he once was. Same goes for Glover.

Naru goes to the tribe as if she returned from the funfair with a giant teddy bear she won from the carny. A male lead I think would have been expected to die from injuries sustained in battle. Its implied Adrian Brody was slain at the end of Predators , there certainly was no happy ending for him.

So what he know about a Mary Sue if that they can't be harmed and they certainly can't meet death. So while she's nowhere near a Michael Burnham , there's still Mary Sue qualities not just to her character , but to the films structure as well. Plot armour , plot contrivances and a stupid dumb Predator who may or may not have chopped his own arm off , all contribute in enabling her succeed against massive odds.