After months of anticipation, the new Predator prequel Prey is finally upon us! It’s currently available for people to stream on Hulu in North America and on Disney+ in the UK.
The reception from the press and fans has been extremely positive, many calling it the best Predator film since the original. Prey is currently sitting on 92% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – the highest-rated Predator film and third highest in the Alien and Predator franchises (after Alien and Aliens).
Prey is out today across streaming platforms!
Prey is set 300 years ago and tells the story of a young warrior called Naru who defends her Comanche Tribe from a technologically-advanced creature – the Predator. This results in a terrifying showdown between the two adversaries.
Have you watched Prey? Sound off in the Fan Reviews topic or in the comments below and tell us what you thought of the film. Remember, you can also watch the Predator film in the Comanche dub as well.
You underestimate the power that a good doggo has over the masses.
But what if my argument wasn't that the prequels are bad, but that Rez is good?
Absolutely f**king love this film now in my top four.
Love the score this time and the exposed mandibles are so clever in terms of a way of giving Feral more personality.
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I meant as a leading female role... otherwise we could sit here all day and discuss Isabelle, Casey, Anna or Leona for that matter.
You may not feel it's necessary for the Predator to stalk and observe its prey, but I think it brings a different feel to the creature. Especially if this is truly their first time on Earth, as the movie suggests, and especially if Feral is taking on opponents head-on.
In regards to other characters, again I think a lot more could have been established than what was presented, especially with the Frenchmen. Taabe and Naru were the only strong characters and while I get that characters are ultimately going to get killed off, there was room for more conversations outside of belittling the main character.
Agreed wholeheartedly. I'm glad that it's bringing attention to the series- even if there is a bit of a split within the fandom. I can appreciate the movie for attracting newcomers- I know my man really enjoyed it as it seems to have sparked his interest. But can't help but have my reserves for it...
Yeah, it was a sucker punch. But she still holds her own against a comanche warrior before another steps in for the cheap shot. Those warriors give Feral a bit of a run for a few minutes, and later Taabe really kicks him in the balls. That establishes, to me, how tough those guys are. And if she's able to hold her own against them, she's able to fight. So when she takes out the trappers later, it was no surprise to me that she could move like that, and later with the Predator. It's clearly established that she's a tough cookie, with a lot of fight in her, but also we see her knocked out and beat down often in the movie.
She gets roughed up, and yeah, bloody in the mouth because of the bite. But you see her get hit pretty hard during that fight. It's not just the sucker punch that leaves her dirty. To say she's never scratched is really interesting to me.
You mean the sucker punch she got after some one else got involved? because she clearly couldn't be beat in one-to-one combat? I guess, but it's not clear cause she did bite into that guy and made him bleed.
Or that she took a huge punch to the face right around then too? Like, does that not have any factor in counting here? That punch clearly puts her on her ass.
People are critical because the movie just came out. You should have seen this place when The Predator came out. I'm sure The Predator fans can attest to the atmosphere LOL. Reviews of all the movies run the gamut on this site. People have some strong positive feelings for P2 that I don't quite understand.
But regardless, I AM glad that there is renewed interest in the Predator universe after this movie. I think that is a win in the long-run. I don't agree with all of the negative reviews in this thread. But IMO, pretending like the movie doesn't have problems and to NOT discuss its shortcomings...I don't think that's the way either.
She bit the guy she was fighting, that wasn't her blood. And I do acknowledge her greatest foe... The bear trap.
Harrigan turned around cause he felt something and unlike this Pred the city hunter values stealth and while he was out in the open he decided to stand still and disappear into the background.
Look, I'll give one but there's two in this film.
If she's not worthy prey while does he continue to follow her and even chase after her?
This is why I say she's not the hero of the film. We do follow her but she is not the hero. She falls more in line with Dillon in creating a situation that leads to a bunch of people being killed.
I think we're definitely on the same wavelength.
Not that I think all the men in all the movies have been just excellent characters
Yes, very goofy. I mean, it's all subjective, right? But still. Lots of goofs.
Been interesting seeing how selective people are with how the view media. How our own experiences and views shape the way we take in the media. Stuff that was completely spelled out and clear to me seem to be missed by others. Or others are choosing to ignore it, tough to say. We all don't see the same way, and we don't have to. Just quite interesting on how far some of us are from each other and what film we've all watched.
The Predator letting her go is no different the City Hunter not wiping out Harrigan on the roof. He's observing, he's toying, he's hunting.
No, the pred has her twice and let's her go twice. Her dog saves her a couple of times. She is just not touched trough the movie, in fact, her most successful enemy is a beat trap.
Outside of her family member all almost all dialogue towards her from her tribe was sexist stuff. I don't know how people don't see it.
Her worth is as a healer. She saves a dudes life and couldn't care less because of her weird nonsense about doing it because they think she cant. That's the SJW silliness of the movie which makes here completely unlikable.
Yeah and that's why Dutch had his ass handed to him in physical combat and won solely based on traps, meanwhile, this woman OVERPOWERED the predator several times.
Every single fight the pred has with human he just walks forward like he's Michale Meyers and here's just one example.
His first fight with humans he kills the guy with the opossum while cloaked then he decides, WHILE THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE THERE LOOKING FOR HIM, to pick up the bolts from the dead dude CLEARLY revealing his position because the body is moving around as the pred pulls the bolts out.
Why was he cloaked to start if he's just going to reveal his location?
In the first movie it is clearly stated that the pred cannot see traps if they are made from the natural material that's around them because he is not able to tell foliage and the traps apart, everything looks like plants to him.
Do you see the difference? in one the predator himself put himself in a bad position while in the other a weakness was found and put to use.
The predator is a hunter and hunters are smart. I don't want to see "beastly" berserker Michale Meyer wannabes. You like the berserker stuff? Cool. To me that goes to the bottom of the pile. I want to see a dude have the upper hand with high tech weapon out maneuvering people.
Hope this doesn't continue on because if I want to see Jason or Michael Meyer I'll go and see a Jason and Michaele Meyers movie.
Feral still stalks his prey like a traditional Predator. The movie is an hour and a half long, and given the lack of automatic projectile weapons or militaries, or gangs, he didn't need to be as "devious" or cunning. Or stalk for plot purposes building tension for endless amounts of time.
It was a simple, efficient, quick and straightforward plot. No need to dick around.
I think it's deliberate being a more savage take on the character not AS reliant upon technology that he prefers a more beastly and animalistic physical confrontation. And for the most part of the film he is killing animals until he gets to the Comanches and French fur trappers.
And at no point were the characters around her dumbed down. They had a justifiably archaic and tribalistic view of how and what women should mean or do in their community. And it seemed more than believable.
And more competent Predator? It is shown deliberately that her brother is by far the best and most experienced natural hunter or warrior in the tribe, and Feral lays waste to him.
Some absolutely gross exaggerations going on here
The coming-of-age story, while not my first pick for a female lead Predator movie, was cheapened with the many throwaway bully male characters and then a predator creature that operates solely on "brute force" rather than the methodical and devious creature that we know it to be from previous films. It's kind of a slap to the face to think that we can't have other (male) characters more fleshed out or even a more competent Predator for such a smart female to go up against. I just think there was a lot more room for improvement.
You don't need to dumb down the surrounding characters for the audience to root for Naru. They didn't do this to Dutch. It wasn't necessary for Ripley. It wasn't necessary for Sarah Connor. It wasn't necessary for Furiosa.
Therefore, couldn't it be drawn that he had no interest in the Comanche until Naru purposely went off after him and brought his attention to them?
Yep. Agreed, wholeheartedly. There was some good stuff, sure. But I personally didn't find it that exciting. People talk about how Predators was a rehash of the original; this one was even worse when it comes to retreading old ground.
That I can definitely see. Though it appears that there's enough of the old school fanbase that does like this movie, so perhaps the lines aren't as clear cut as new vs old.
If you're implying some type of SJW, Mary Sue, Libtard, Feminazi pandering Rey type scenario here, I do not see it whatsoever.
She struggled, she learns, she wants to prove her worth (likability), she's fiercely intelligent but also lucked TF out. Just like Dutch, Harrigan, Royce etc
Based on how these creatures are explained in the movies, none of these humans should stand a remote chance. In fact, hopefully they lean into that and the next one the predator wins, as it should be by this point, if anything just to regain the 1715 pistol.
How was the predator in this anymore dumb?
Jungle Hunter literally walks into a trap because of a few knives dangling visibly on a log as a red herring? Is he dumb too?
How is Feral any more moronic then in any other incarnation?
The script was tight, the protagonist was likable enough, this definitely had best predator focused action scenes in the entire franchise.
For the first time since the first two, yet even more so, we actually get to see the predator be a beastly Rastafarian athletic warrior. Running ridiculously fast, and unlike even the first two films, we get to see him jumping around with his 7 1/2 to 8 1/2 foot frame incredibly athletically, which is horrifying.
This movie was awesome. Total shot in the arm the franchise needed.
AvP is fine, Requiem can rot in hell
Are ringtones still a thing?
Anyway, I came here to say that there's now three good Predator movies, one profoundly mediocre one, and three absolute dogshit ones (the Predator franchise can keep the AvPs, we don't want them). Will the next one tip the balance in favour of quality? We can only hope.
LOL sooo true
The main character has tremendous plot armor,the pred is tremendously dumb, and this is long before he got shot in the head. There's no consistency of events. The story is just bad all around.
Just wait until they start complaining about Jungle Hunter not looking enough like Feral.
If Prey gets one thing right, it's that it made the Predator franchise accessible for a new generation of fans. Get ready, once these folks digest the entire franchise on Hulu we're going to have a ton of new fans entering. If they keep making more Prey movies pretty soon the fanbase will be Prey fans and Predator fans lol sort of like what happened with the Jurassic Park franchise, having JP fans and JW fans.
It's clearly a better-constructed sequel than the last two movies, but it's also pretty boring to me as it lacks the pizazz that made the first movie great and stripped away all the things that make the Predator creature fascinating and cunning.
It could have been a great Predator sequel/prequel but I think they played things way too safe and in tune with the typical SLASHER flick.
It works as characterising him as inexperienced (I wouldn't say brain damage) but not particularly impressive as a monster.
Feral would've seen Mac pick up the mini gun and roared at him before being turned into a fluoro green mist.
Even if you accept the theory that the predator was suffering from brain damage; they didn't have to write him receiving that bullet to the head and the consequences of it. They could of written the predator as smart and a tactical expert. They chose not to and that's a problem. Having the predator be an idiot also undermines Naru's achievement in defeating it. It simply doesn't make for a compelling main antagonist, not when compared to the predator from the original movie and it feels as though people are performing mental gymnastics to make excuses for a poor creative decision.
Sure, but it made him significantly less threatening and awe inspiring than his counterparts in the previous movies as a result. Not exactly an ideal way for filmmakers to present their big bad.
"Hey everyone, it's a new Terminator movie but the antagonistic terminator in this acts like a fool and constantly trips on things and falls over, but hey it's okay because fans will claim it's because his circuits are fried." :/
The filmmakers could have written it any way they wanted. They weren't making a documentary. They chose to present their big bad as a buffoon. Why make excuses for that by invoking head canon handwaves?