Review of Prey (2022) by Robobob — 05 Aug 2022

HOW TO SPOT A FAKE REVIEW 101: Notice they can't name a scene in the movie that didn't appear in the first trailer. Notice they use key Tucker-terms like "woke" and "mary-sue" and "100 lb girl." They HAVE to use those terms in each post because the hive-mind commands.

There's a lot of first day low score reviews on here of people who obviously didn't watch the movie, but are basing their reviews off of trailers and internet rage-boy hive-mind opinion.

"They shouldn't be speaking English they should be speaking Comanche!" There's a Comanche dub available.

How can a 100lb girl beat something that Arnold could barely kill?

Well, that question, my friend, is a multi-part answer. A) This predator is the smallest out of any predator we have ever seen (is it younger?) and has less advanced technology too. (300 years prior) It has no energy weapons like the shoulder plasma launcher we know and love and it's cloaking device fails pretty early in the movie.

B) By the time Naru gets around to fighting this predator, it has been seriously mauled by a grizzly, speared and shot by some Comanche, trapped and shot multiple times by a group of trappers and... my favorite part..., seriously f'ed up by Naru's brother.

C) One of the reason Naru survives instead of the dozens of others that go up against the predator is because she's smart not strong. The first time she could run up and attack it like like her Comanche warrior brethren. But she runs instead. The second time she could surprise it, but she hides instead. That brings me up to the second big complaint I'm reading about people who actually haven't seen this movie. Naru is a mary-sue that is perfect and better than the men in the movie. Is she? The first time we see her hunting deer... she fails. Then we see her hunting rabbit and she fails until she makes some improvements to her weapons. She tries to get the jump on a grizzly and her bow string snaps and she can only run for her life. She also just barely escapes a quick sand of mud.. quick mud? We all have seen The Star Wars Sequel trilogy... this is not how a mary-sue works.

And these people giving 0s and 1s: If you've seen the movie you don't give it at least SOME props for its unique setting? Or the amazing cinematography? Or the new music? Or at least Naru's brother who steals the show? Or this predator's new arsenal? Some people be trying real hard to hate everything in life.

Things I really liked: many of the people that went up against this predator did some serious damage to it, from the grizzly that drew first blood, to the second Comanche warrior that damaged it's cloaking device, to Naru's brother that damn near killed the thing. Even the french trappers got the jump on it, but when it took them a minute to reload their muskets after he blocked their first shots I had to laugh out loud. Got to love that historical accuracy. TLDR: I had a blast with this movie and it's definitely the best Predator movie since the original. Watch it and get your own opinion... avoid the hive mind.