Review of Prey (2022) by Twitu — 14 Aug 2022

I dont have anything against a strong female lead, see Alien movies, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Terminator 1 & 2, or Mad Max Fury Road, and many more. Those are all amazing movies.

But this movie does everything wrong with that you can do wrong.

The Alien and Predator franchise tried to be more or less realistic in its depiction, but this movie is the complete opposite. Its not very authentic in its depiction of a Comanche society, nor are the actors well picked (I literally had to watch Apocalypto again after this to get my head straight again about Native Americans - an amazing movie!). The shown males are all only minors (except one, who isnt shown much anyway), or very young adults with very slim bodies, and of course all make fun of the small female who wants to be a great hunter. The female lead knows everything (but not how to cut a fish) and can kill everything and is thus a Mary Sue. She can kill 5 grown men in a matter of seconds and blocks their attacks with her arms like shes superhuman.

Not to mention she can fool an alien that is capable of interstellar travel, even though the movie clearly shows that she wouldnt be able to know what she knows. See below.

The Predator has better tech than 300 years later.

This Predator gets hit all the time, and bleeds everywhere, but never really takes the time to heal. It can take several fatal blows without flinching, yet bothers to kill small animals like snakes and wolves as trophies. Yet it also looks far smaller and weaker than all the other ones before.

And theres wonder medicine that doesnt even exist 300 years later, that can make you not only less visible, but completely invisible to alien thermal optics, even in contrast to a horizon. If only our military knew of that, or criminals on the run, trying to hide from police helicopters...

Somehow the lead actor finds out how to use this medicine against the Predator, but then again gets proven wrong a few seconds later (she doesnt look at what actually happens), yet still thinks it works.

The acting is average at best, the writing is stupid because of the mentioned plot holes and logic errors, and the dialogue is typical woke, never makes the characters likeable because they feel very artificial.

The CGI is really bad (especially the animals), and the lead actress feels too clumsy and small for this role. Shes not believable in any way. Even her appearance, even though shes Native American decent (to a tiny percent), looks more like shes Latino. The male actors (except the old one) all look very believable, though, except for their body statue.

How this film gets this many upvotes can only be explained with manipulation. Easily recognizable when they claim they have seen the movie and claiming the bad reviewers havent, yet we know they havent seen the movie, because they dont say anything about its content, yet here every review says exactly whats wrong with it and talks about different scenes (hint how to make your bots better).

But thats nothing new nowadays, when most real people dislike your products.