Just to clarify the bison point, as I didn’t make it especially clear in the script: I’m aware it was the vile French, not the Predator; the problem is it makes for narrative clutter given skinned animals have previously served as a device teasing a separate mystery. The point is to draw out similarities between the Predator and the French - which is a good idea - but the delivery is lacking. Also, and more generally, I don’t hate this film, and I do spend a lot of time explaining and praising what it does right. It has some excellent ideas. It’s the writing, characterisation and general delivery, especially in the second half, that really lets it down.
lol Yeah, I dont want that realism crap about feminism in my movies about 8ft tall aliens visiting earth lol You clowns in the comment sections : )@Harley Mann
A Predator that celebrates feminism. What a failure! I look forward to the next Predator. Hopefully they will get back to what made the franchise famous. Or, they could kill the franchise themselves, I suppose.
After I watched this movie and then looked at the reviews I was in disbelief that it didn't receive as many thumbs down as I was expecting. This is the only review that truly gives a decent account of all the pitfalls in this installment of Predator. Bad acting, bad script, sad use of a female lead, inconsistent CG quality, poor character development, unbelievable ending, and the list goes on and on.
Well obviously. Even in a movie about a massive space monster who's entire purpose is to destroy humans, the real enemies are the wh1tes. Plus that's a straight ripoff of a scene in Dances with Wolves. I sprained my eyes rolling them so hard.
This is what should have happened when Mary jumped on the Predators back the Predator should have grabbed her throwing her onto the ground holder down as he stabbed her with his wrist blades and if he was stopped by the dog he would have grabbed the dog or kicked him away because he's very small and wouldn't do much damage and we saw him body a coyote earlier so he definitely would have won that battle if it weren't for the horrible injuries he sustained from his fight with the brother
And that’s why Brown bears are on the top of the food chain and built Cities, and a wepon capable of bringing about the death of our planet :3 yah crazy
@DiamondDead I think with good writing u can still have tension and stakes by making it a struggle rather than a 1 sided massacre I mean sure the point would be the predator winning in the end but that doesnt mean it has to come out unscathed it could still end with some wounds while still taking victory. The predator could also just be set up like a horror movie where u follow a set of people trying to survive while hearing the screams and terror in the distance of people fighting back while the try and figure out whats going on while giving those people or just the audience peeks at the predator or just showing the aftermath of it going through an area and end it with the predator winning and maybe some of the main cast dying because they had weapons that made them worth hunting so then the survivors see someone die by an invisible creature in a dimly lit area as they have no idea what happened are not only traumatized by the destruction and horror but also by something unexplainable or unbelievable that they all personally witnessed at the end
If it's vision is exclusively thermal (which I think it is since it stepped on a whole guy without noticing him) how the hell did it catch a snake that's both cold blooded AND mostly immobile
You mocked the scene where Naru learns how the predator's helmet works but you missed a glaring flaw: She is behind the tree that is being shot. She cannot know that the lasers are aimed at the tree - to her, it's just some bright red thing on the predator's head armor. From her vantage point, she cannot see the dots on the tree and cannot see that the darts are hitting the dots.she can see nothing but a glowing bit on the predator's head armor so she should learn nothing. Then the finale when she magically lines everything up based on knowledge she couldn't have seen, couldn't have learned, and couldn't have understood, was ludicrous. I predicted that she was going to grab his helmet and wrist launcher and wear the things to hunt the predator. At least that wouldn't require her to create a Rube Goldberg ending.
@Caliginous Moira I mean… yeah. This movie was supposedly higher rated than the original Predator. I can say, without a doubt, human’s are stupid asf. This movie not be higher rated than the classic Predator movie.
Had she pulled the helmet off with her Tomahawk on a string, and pulled it towards her, then aimed the lasers at the Predator, it wouldn't have made the Predator look as if he grew up wearing a safety helmet
@wolflover Translated: "Well, yeah, you're right that almost every single movie has plot holes/plot armor and BS in it, but but THIS movie has WIMMENZ defeating the predator and and that's just too much!" Seriously. This thread is 4 months old. Go back to playing video games.
@M Gass guy takes a shot from a plasma canon A device that has multiple settings to not paste and waste power needlessly. What next? Nemesis from resident evil was weakened because in the cutscene she shoots it a few times to kill it- right after the boss fight with the rail gun?
I agree with a lot of your points. My biggest issue is how Naru went after the Predator for no reason other than she found it’s tracks and a skinned snake and that no one would believe her. The Predator wasn’t bothering her or her tribe so there was no reason for her to go after it. And when she did, she foolishly led her tribesmen right to it where they got butchered. Not to to mention how it was also because of her that her brother was captured and tortured by the fur traders. She never even acknowledges that any of it was her fault or learns from it. I thought the whole point of her mother lecturing her that hunting for their people is not about proving oneself but about survival was to set her up to learn this later but she never does. This whole movie from start to finish was about her wanting to prove she could hunt even at the cost of the lives of her brother and tribesmen, even if they were brainless morons and dicks, and she never goes through any kind of character development at all other than enhancing her skills. And it really annoys me how everyone keeps regarding her as an awesome action heroine and the best protagonist in the franchise when she really isn’t. She’s an entitled teenage girl who doesn’t listen to anybody from her tribe who tells her she can’t or shouldn’t do something even if what they’re telling her is sound advice.
@Face Face That ending could be explained as "she got lucky" - she took the helmet without really understanding anything about it, and maybe put it to a tree mostly as a lure in hopes the predator might try to retrieve it, and then simply got incredibly lucky while the stupid predator managed to not notice the helmet or the whole situation and accidentally shot itself. So, really not a story about a heroic girl winning a fight against that predator than a story of the most stupid ever predator (probably their version of the village idiot) failing abysmally in its hunt.
thats bcuz jus like everything else these days ,the movie was strictly about female empowerment, notice every male died bcuz of her and she was made a leader at the end, but she was worthless 1st her brother saved her multiple times, she got all the men killed then the dog saved her life and helped her kill the predator lol the dog was the true hero of the movie, horrible movie
The dumbest part of the movie was when Naru realized that the Predator can't see people if their body temperature is low. So she's at the Frenchman camp giving the guy the medicine that lowers body temperature, Predator arrives, she goes to hide behind a tree and the guy tries to crawl away and then plays dead. The Predator looks around, SEES all the dead bodies, SEES the blood trail, SEES the guy who left the blood trail, stares right down at the guy, and decides he must be dead like the rest of them because he's lying on the ground and he's cold. We know this because we're SHOWN THOURGH THE PREDATORS EYES. Meanwhile, Naru looks at what the Predator is doing and comes to the conclusion that IT COULDN'T SEE HIM. When in fact he could see everything, none of the people in the camp (dead or alive) were invisible to him. Naru later takes the medicine, moves 2 inches and the Predator walks right past her. He should've seen her of course because she wasn't invisible, she was just cold, and SHE WAS STANDING UPRIGHT, not playing dead. idk, maybe he did see her just standing there pretending to be invisible, and thought "oh no!, this girl must be retarded" and just left her alone because killing retarded people is not honorable
the whole "lowers her temperature thing" is still weird to me. if it gets ur temperature too low, wouldnt it affect your body? especially at night, when it's cold. plus, lowering the temperature doesnt bring it to "none", wouldnt she still be greenish-yelowish?
@KAIwhen Dutch is within 10 feet his body head shows up better to an unmasked jungle hunter. Beyond 10 feet and Dutch blends into the surroundings. And jungle Hunter’s forehead actually presses against a spike and that’s how he notices, but it doesn’t have anything to do with his vision, the spikes were intentionally obstructed by big leaves.
@DeonteArnold moves outside of the predator’s point of view. At the beginning of the battle when Arnold is waiting on the tree and the predator comes up next to him, Arnold is still until the predator moves past. Arnold swings on a vine to the next tree and is still while the predator is trying to figure out what moved. Arnold hits him with the explosive arrow and the predator starts lobbing shots everywhere, only focusing on Arnold when he’s running in a straight line away. Arnold crosses paths with the predator, but outside of his field of view, and hides under the log. Arnold grabs the spears, and because of his heat sig hiding mud and the thick vegetation, Arnold manages to stay in the predator’s blind spot. Following the predators blood trail, Arnold moves between some rocks and the predator doubles back, and though Arnold is still, he’s lost some mud and the predator notices. Arnold drops his explosive, momentarily blinding the predator, falls into a pool of water, loses all of his mud and that’s where the predator actually catches him. One instance of Arnold “moving around covered in mud” while in the predators field of view. And in that instance, the predator saw him. So, no real inconsistencies.
Yes, this is the difference between Arnold and the mud, and Naru. Even though the mud wouldn't shield someone for nearly as long as it did in the movie (my only main gripe with the original), at least he knew to try and blend in and not to move around or stand upright.
Aside from it being the French killing the bison in the film, the French and the Native American tribes actually had excellent relations. So good in fact, they were allied during several wars, and regularly traded furs for metal items, such as pots and so on.
@Biomecha That was the Spanish; I love to rag on my 'Hispanic' acquaintances (especially if they're PC), They call Thanks giving "Indigenous Peoples day, but give themselves (the descendants of the Spanish, who actually 'rick rolled' the first nations for a couple of centuries before the British OR the French ever showed up), a whole month of 'celebration' of Latin Heritage. So, I always ask 'are you absolving yourselves of blame for the crimes of your ancestors?'
@Ryan Arment Wow, Hollywood making mistakes in the depiction of Native American tribes! Has such a thing ever happened before? This must be a first time.
One of the weirdest things for me was the choice of ending: she returns to her tribe in triumph, carrying the Predator's head (and the translator's pistol), throws it at the feet of her elders, and smiles as she is named warchief. what First and foremost, her recklessness is to blame for no fewer than FIVE of the tribe's dead. The four hunters that went out to find her wouldn't be there if she hadn't baselessly decided that she knew better than everyone else and ran off on her own. Her brother wouldn't be dead if not for, again, a similar reason. If she had a character arc, I thought it would have involved the apparent glamor of being a hunter and warrior being just that: a glamour, or an illusion. The way she was 'training' earlier was so laughably out of touch with what you'd actually need to know as a hunter/warrior that it was comical. Pointlessly parkour-kicking off trees while chasing a rabbit? Throwing a hatchet? Making a scuffed version of Skorpion's weapon from 'Mortal Kombat'? But then, not only did this baffling non-training actually appear to work, but when faced with all the death and destruction that it took to bring down the Predator...she slices off its head, paints herself with its blood, and leaves the brother who sacrificed himself to save her to be eaten by scavengers. There was a lot of plot armor along the way, too, but I'd say the second most disappointing character was the Predator himself. He's a big, dumb monster that _constantly_ stumbles into traps and ambushes, and then survives because of a combination of insano-tech and having been buffed to the point of insanity. He's an incompetent, cowardly idiot that would have died a dozen times over if he weren't given such an insane and unreasonable amount of strength, speed, agility, and coordination. The cowardly part comes from his tech, particularly when he decides to activate his Amazon drone C4 delivery service to seek out and autonomously murder the rest of the trappers. It fell into the same category of 'haha, look! reference! u liek reference, yes?!' that the pistol was. The mines got used in previous media when shit was _serious._ AvP2's Predator used them to clear out xenomorphs in the town's sewers because he was there to _eradicate_ them and take care of any other traces of extraterrestrial stuff. And the pistol was given to Danny Glover in Predator 2 after he successfully slew a Predator in single combat, and it had a custom nameplate with both a fancy European name and a date that fell within the Golden Age of Piracy. The comics had more on it, but I could infer all I needed from the context it was given and the appearance of the gun. But I guess it belonged to some randy French trapper that happened to speak the local language, sorta-wounded a Predator, and then...well, I guess the tribe isn't long for this world, because it still ended up on a Predator ship by the 1990s.
@Druid of Scosglen Then Wolf is a bad example. He was still hanging corpses on trees and fighting Aliens hand-to-hand. He even took off all his stuff at the end to reference the first movie!
People seem to forget that Requiem's Predator, Wolf, was not a hunter as such, he was clean up detail aka A WARRIOR first and foremost, hunters take trophies, warriors kill their enemies to end a threat, big difference.
@Have a Go Auto Repair I say good, don't like undeserving victors that have zero character nor human emotion. She was essentially a robot that got waaay too much plot armor so I'm happy the plot armor didn't save her in the end.
If you watched the end credits the pictogram retelling of Naru's adventure ends with a Predator ship appearing in the sky over the village, to swelling ominous music. Implying that the Predator's companions returned and something really bad happened to Naru and her people. I guess the more defensible position the war chief moved her tribe to wasn't defensible enough. And we know her pistol ends up in the trophy hall on the ship in 1990 when it is given to Danny Glover in Predator 2.
What the HELL is with the magic flower that somehow cools people to the temperature of the environment in seconds, which those people somehow survive? How the Hell is that supposed to work? And why would that even render people invisible to the predator? Things still radiate heat at different rates, even when they're all at the same temperature. Which is lucky for the Predator, otherwise it would be walking into trees, and tripping over rocks.
@Weyland Punani But they lower core temperature, by increasing blood flow to the skin and INCREASING surface temperature. That would just make you even more visible to the Predator
@Mooni dosent matter. From what we know from previous predator movies the Yautja don’t simply stop targeting their prey because they’re no longer a “threat”. Once their prey shows fighting capabilities it’s on.
@Graveside Poet the predator didn’t do anything to her as 1) the French man was the main focus so he stood out more and 2) the predator didn’t see her as a threat at that moment before getting shot
It is basically an example of "in the kindgom of the blind, one-eyed is the king" - when we take a look at less than stellar history of Predator sequels (basically everything after Predator 2)... Prey looks like a masterpiece in comparison. My biggest problems are lack of good personality of its characters and most importantly the fact that Predator... is out of character - the bloody thing does not exactly act like a haunter most of the time, it acts like a mumbling idiot - going into traps, basically brute forcing its way into direct combat like a video game boss being like "I have enough HP to tank this shit". I mean, in the original, Predator was very strong and difficult to kill indeed, but it relied on subtle tactics until the ending - honourable duel, basically. Speaking of Predator's honour... the part with the bomb baffles me - in the original movie, it was implied, and confirmed in later lore that suicide through a bomb is basically a way for a predator to preserve honour when mortally wounded. Not to mention, the bracer that Predator in Prey discarded was shown to contain some sort of computer vital for decent portion of its equipment... Another thing is the mask - the skull mask of the new Predator is cool... but it was heavily implied in original that mask contains apparatus making it easier for Predator to breathe - it is an alien being, it is logical for it to come from a place with different air composition - open mouth design of mask in Prey therefore makes little sense... Oh... and mask was more firmly attached to the head, so it being knocked out easily by protagonist's brother also makes no sense - you know, considering it doubles as re-breather for an alien creature that tends to run a lot and jump on trees, you don't want this thing to fall of easily, yet it does in Prey. And while we are pointing lore inconsistencies - Predator's cloak was shown to not function when wet, it short circuits... Yet in Prey it has no issues working when drenched in river water and bear blood, despite this Predator's gear being more primitive than in original. It was an okay, flawed movie... but it is treated like second coming of Christ, which honestly is overhyping and overselling it horribly.
I agree with a good amount of this but overall it was a pretty good/very decent movie and I enjoyed it and hope for better sequels. But tbh this guys video contradicts itself back to back and nitpicks so hard, also didnt understand or appreciate the random political commentary?
@Coramelimane A few people complaining about something is not the same as the audience complaining. If you want something more like an audience you might try Rotten Tomatoes over Incel KZclip clusters. Prey has a 93% critic score and even with Incels using KZclip and discord servers to try and tank the public reception still has a 73% audience score. That means a vast majority of all voters professional and user are positive so you don't have a point. I think there may be an Incel only Movie site called Rotten Coach Potatoes that reflects these views.
@Nate B It works in Hollywood, stop over thinking the thing. In Hollywood movies things get powers because the plot needs them sometimes. Star Wars did it, they had a entire cult of magic wizards with some kind of midichlorians that gave them magic powers. Luke was able to talk to his dead friend in space so he could get advice on how to use the Force. In the second movie this same dead friend tells him to see out Yoda. Hollywood.
This really depends on how the predators thermal vision works. Generally, flir, the leading thermal imaging company reads surface temps. For some, holding up a thin sheet will block a visual. I chalked it up to surface temp rather than another in the many plot holes
@Face Face Yes I care NOTHING about the INTEGRITY of Hollywood franchises, firstly because I am an adult and i have serious matters to care about, but secondly I find that when most people talk about LORE or FRANCHISE, they don't really understand either and are generally just complaining about gender of racial changes from previously all white all male story lines. I would point to LotR and RoP as a demonstration. Many INCELs moaned that RoP was not being true to the LORE, which most of them never read so they took to be the movie LotR but not the Hobbit movies. Selective much? But a look at what Tolkien's estate and the International due paying Tolkien Society said what LotR film essentially raped the source to make an action movie for. boys. RoP has more estate and professional Tolkien scholar input and is more true to the LORE of the books than the movies
@Bob Hooker u didn't clarify anything except for the fact that u could less about the integrity of the film or franchise and the only good thing is that u didn't have to waste your time going to a theater to see this complete mockery and u would probably date anything if u think she was hot lol I'd rather have the dog as a pet than her for a girlfriend.. definitely a 1st hunt for that particular predator
@Face Face Okay, there is this woman in this native community who wants to become a hunter. Its a Predator movie so nothing about the alien has to make sense. The Predator makes easy work of a group of French and Native men but the Predator also rejects her threat. So in a nightime battle which suspends less disbelief then Terminator 2 or Star Trek 3 you have a nice night fight with a really hot looking female star kicking its ass and then going home to crow about the achievement. Its kind of a movie, its summer time, fun film the family can sit on the coach in the air-con and watch together.
lol really?? well explain the rest of the nonsense in this movie and everything covered in this video since your the expert, explain how the damn dog was smarter than the predator, explain how the dog was the real hero in the movie......
Crazy how everyone (justly) calls Rey a merry sue but somehow it's not mentioned here, people say she outsmarted him. The scene where the predator holds her by her neck and just doesn't feel like crushing/snapping it despite 1v1ing a bear a few moments ago is her outsmarting him
@B1 19-75 Its a Sci-Fi action movie. In Star Wars how do the ships fline across the Galaxy in a matter of hours? Why in Terminator did they not just send back a small army of terminators? I mean come on.
@Savage Shot I am not sure how Prey changed much of anything from Predator: the Predator functions essentially the same, they look differently but its 100s of years before. If anything Prey marks a return to classic Predator after the Redator Vs Alien and later sequels tried to turn the Predator into the good guy. Prey is the most like Predator returning to themes of American colonialization, mono on mono in the woods, and the need to outsmart the Predator.
@Bob Hooker I mean to the beginning of your comment yes thats my point, you were speaking as if you understood exactly how the predator was functioning. Sci fi movies of course require some suspension of disbelief, but that doesn't mean the in-universe parameters that its sets can just be changed or else the audience is basically alienated to it because the universe itself is alien to its own rules if its contradicting itself or its set of rules in said sci fi universe. The quotes you're providing mean nothing to me. Do with that as you will, Im indifferent to the new star wars movies. Edit: What did you think of the star wars movies?
If the "feral" predator is so inexperienced that it can't really differentiate a worthy strong enemy as many of the movie supporters said, then why does it chose not to hunt Naru the first moment they met.
@Michael Jensen which would make the predator an idiot which it isn't u don't become the most successful hunter with the most advanced tech and make dumb decisions like underestimating anyone
100% by the predator's experience, any human that's not French with a metal gun is pretty much holding a stick with string (bow and arrow) or a stick tied to a rock (tomahawk/axe) and he's seems just fine killing her fellow comanches in the woods. The logical predator thing to do is kill ALL the humans once he realizes they weaponize wooden sticks. Hence, no more innocent by-standers.
The bear was going after Naru and she wasn't winning. The Predator beat the bear, therefore she was second-handedly beaten as well, and so not a worthy opponent at the time.
The beginning of the movie really worked against it, in my opinion. The movie goes to a decent length to build up the setting and the society the main character lives in, but it's totally undermined by the choice of main character. Given the realities of tribal life, the main character wouldn't have had the time to learn much of anything about hunting as she would have had her own set of responsibilities, and more than likely, would have already been with child given her age. The thing is, this could have been remedied if they just shifted the main character's background to being an outsider to the tribe. They could have kept her as a woman while also realistically explaining why she has the time and knowledge to hunt as an outsider might naturally be excluded from daily life.
Making her an outsider would not be unprecedented either. For the Comanche, and many native nations in general, outsiders were often integrated into the society, sometimes forcefully, other times not. I haven’t seen the movie but this looks like before the Comanche started their empire building meaning there would be less outsiders and everyone would be more wary of them for their own survival against other tribes and settlers.
I like how the French explorers, farther west than they could've been in real life at that time, are dumb and terrible at surviving and fighting. They managed to stay alive, uncaptured and freely operating on Comanche or Apache land , which would require a variety of exceptional skills - none of which they have in the film.
The actors are mostly english canadians who barely speak french. The leader of the french in the movie is played by Mike Patterson, a stand up comedian from Montreal. Amazing guy, really funny, but horrible is this movie.
The French were VERY thin on the ground in North America, which is why during the French and Indian Wars, the French officers and professional soldiers relied on Indian allies. Apparently the landholding classes in France didn't want their serfs running away to a new life in the new world==who'd worth their estates, then? THAT being said, the French were pretty much restricted to the NORTH of the Continent, on the Canadian border. That's why Sacajawea was married to a French Mountain man. The Commanches didn't move south into 'Spanish North America' until later--it was when they moved south that they became 'The Empire of The Summer Moon' (better to be the hunter than the prey, so to speak). I don't know why, but the Spanish bribed the Commanches with gold, horses, weapons (and bought their slaves) and flattery to keep 'em from causing too much trouble. What happened next I'm not too clear about but 'Mexico' got independence from Spain (trouble with Napoleon made it too hard to keep the colonies?) The government of Independent Mexico (which almost certainly meant politicians/officers/bureaucrats/landowners who were Spanish extracted) stopped paying the tributes to the Commanches because they started bickering among themselves for the 'riches' the country had.
The predator was doing so good against bad guys, doing 180 slo mo spin after throwing a bear trap at a dude’s head but then it becomes stupid and amateur when fighting against our main character Naru. The biggest problem though is that Naru doesn’t look Native American.
Oni That's the Spanish for ya! Anyway, you think the Indigenous 'Empires' offered anything to the subjects they conquered? I mean other than heart surgery or becoming a meal?
@Bob Hooker Underestimation started in Korea---setting realistic goals (like stopping at the most narrow part of the peninsula instead of driving all the way to the damned Manchurian border) would have helped.
@Bob Hooker Your response is broken up into at least 3 SEPERATE posts. So I'm not going to even bother replying to it all. You don't bother making it coherent and in a single post, I don't bother to read them. I have better things to do than to track down, and read multiple posts and taken notes to respond to it. But the one I did respond to was factually incorrect in everything it said. Which tells me enough about how bad you are at history. Imagine thinking the south won, when its literally untrue.
I think we've reached the point where so many recent/current movies are so painfully lacking in the basics of good storytelling, that when one comes out that gets it right (Maverick) or even gets it mostly right (Prey), it stands out and engages the audience that have been deprived for so long.
@Rob L You dont know why? Well, I dont know how people could think of an 50 kilo girl with little to zero combatexperience against grown men who are way stronger and durable than todays males. Well, I think it is called "sense of realism"
Prey was a terrible film. The only good thing about it was the landscapes and scenery. I haven't enjoyed any new films for a long time. They all now have some kind of political agenda. I watch films to escape all that, I don't need it shoved down my throat 24/7
@Dravianpn02 You can make the claim of nearly anything if you boil it down far enough, all I am saying is it was an ATTEMPT, even if poorly done, to explain most of her survival (by running away, and not seeming to be a worthy hunt). I will give credit to a poor attempt... but that doesnt mean it was a case of "woman strong" in all the scenes. Cant be so locked into your stance that it blinds you to failed attempts to do better my friend.
I've been so frustrated with the non stop praise this movie has been getting. You noticed basically every problem I did. I feel so validated now. Thank you. 😂
It features a minority character so its used as a "immune to criticism" card. Its really pathetic, especially because this movie is pretty decent. But we cant have this movie succeed by its own merit or it would undermine "the message".
Predator 2 was, and is, a great film imo. It was always a very enjoyable, entertaining, and imo, very overlooked sequel. It’s dark and gritty, the urban theme is done brilliantly, the lead character is brilliant, side characters are good, there’s many memorable scenes - the Prince Willie alley scene, the train scene, the cemetery scene, etc., there’s a fantastic third act and final battle, there are some damn disturbing but epic kills, there’s more depth when it comes to the lore - great film.
@Kenneth Satria It was def a good sequel. It's nothing incredible or mind blowing but a sci-fi action flick with fun characters, a vibe and added to the franchise lore.... compared to the shit now it's downright amazing LMAO.
Yeah that also kind of puzzles me a lot, its pretty damn solid as like a supernatural murder case and it was sick to see a Predator take to the streets of a concrete jungle for the sequel.
Your point about Frenchie's quick explanation of how to use his flintlock pistol is dead on. I paused the movie and asked my wife if she understood the instructions and felt like she could now load that weapon properly and she emphatically said no. And she's at least heard of guns and seen them in numerous movies, so she had some idea what gunpowder is, and what she called "bullets" though her use of that word was wrong, but she described the lead shot fairly accurately. She knew there was a rod she would have to remove but wasn't sure why. So she had a head start on Naru and didn't understand it.
Flintlock is a particularly finicky and unreliable technology. But isn't it an interesting juxtaposition that Naru can't figure out the flintlock pistol but instantly masters laser targeting and guidance.
I agree with you about the "If it bleeds we can kill it" line. Stealing from the better movie just reminds us that there was a better movie. If they were going to steal a Predator quote, they should have stolen one from Sonny Landham who played Billy. e.g. "There's something out there waiting for us, and it ain't no man. We're all gonna die."
I just finished this movie and I audibly said, "This is the Simple Rick of Predators." The Protagonist got SUPER lucky very consistently. The orange flower touches your tongue and your heat signature is instantly gone from head to toe? He can track a blood trail, but can't see a grown woman standing directly in front of him as he moves forward? He gets her with his shield, but she falls directly between two rocks, stopping the shield with perfect timing. I mean, I've heard of plot armor, but come on! Why does this Yautja have arrows? They have space travel, invisibility, layered vision, instant wound sealant, but no plasma caster? Why does this Predator seem to have no grasp for how his Arrow Caster operates? Why did he just kinda drop his spear, essentially just handing it to her, when the pupper nipped at his heels? He literally bodied a grizzly bear earlier and now a little ole pupper nipping at his ankles is going to make him go into full retard spasm attack? SENSORY OVERLOAD SENSORY OVERLOAD. This was possibly the worst movie I have ever seen.
This predator didn’t seem like it was looking for the strongest warrior. It looked like it was just exploring, casually hunting and then started killing people as they kept getting close and closer to it.
as long as we're making up back stories out of thin air....i 'd like to say that it LOOKED like the comanche girl is actually a synthetic, one of the androids from Aliens, but a prototype. That would explain why she's able to outfight it, outsmart it, understand laser sighting, collapsible pred armor, thermal imaging, survive a bear trap with no limp, knows medicine, knows hunting, knows tracking, overshadows veteran tribal hunters, outfight hardened French trappers, understand space travel (instead of thinking the "gods are angry" when she sees the ship in the sky) Or....we could accept the story for the inconsistencies it presents, instead of making things up
It's not there on a holiday, it will be training, trying to prove itself to its always watching superiors. Like in Predator 2. Also scoping the territory and studying behaviour.
He's just fighting everything that's trying to fight or attacks him. It's just survival instinct and not much else. Older movies were more about their 'culture' of challenge.
@Yoda W a bottle of Jack Daniels I’m mad about both movies even predator hunting grounds the game completely fucked the lore by turning female predators into looking like human women instead of being larger and stronger versions of the males like they’re supposed to be nothing from the franchise recently has felt like predator
@GroovyHoovy2 I seriously couldn’t care so long as the movie isn’t dog shit. The Predator discredited the lore *and* sucked ass, be mad about that movie
One of the great things about keeping the alien off screen is that we are generally only allowed to see the creature when the cast sees the creature and generally with the same clarity. We get to experience the characters first real sighting of the alien with them. Our foreknowledge of the alien enhances rather than diminishes the moment.
After seeing her practicing with the axe on a rope earlier in the movie, where pretty much no one could pull out a lodged axe so perfectly into their hand by tugging on a rope, I realised the level of suspension of disbelief which i needed for the movie and allowed me to overlook a bunch of the plot holes and enjoy the movie
Oni Fr.....it was practical, its doable. Having practiced stuff like knife and axe throwing at ranges AND in forests on real trees, you absolutely can both lodge something into a tree and still easily pull it out.
I love that we’re already getting into the secondary wave of “Whoa whoa, it’s not a completely unwatchable mess, but let’s not get crazy.” It’s The Force Awakens, Halloween 2018, and the first Jurassic World all over again.
Prey is a masterpiece , my favourite part was when she said "it's preyin time" and preyed all over the place before using the dark hold to summon Wednesday adams and just scissoring until galadriel shows up .
Guys. She ripped one of his mandibles off, and then stabbed him with it. Oh yeah, while getting pinned by his shield. It came off like it was held on by a fridge magnet.
This movie sucked and the end was the absoute worst part. Pred goes from Spidderman agility vs the hunters and pressing a bear carcass overhead to being bested by a 100lb girl flat on her back. Utter gargage.
@Soofiamaria Give me one example of o woman ripping lets say a finger of a man. There are a lot of rape going on in the world. Not a single time when adrenaline gave a woman (even man) a super strength to rip a part of a body of a human being. Here we are talking about a creature who can go toe to toe with a bear. Predators mandibles are not a chicken legs first of all, second adrenaline doesnt give you THAT amount of strength.
@SomeoneWith Opinion are you fighting for your life when you're cooking your chicken? Adrenaline is a hell of a drug, it's a completely real thing to become much stronger in adrenaline filled or life or death situations.
I hope I get a chance to direct a big screen movie one day, because I’d pay someone like you as much as humanly allowed to do what you did here. Never dogged anything in a tasteless way and calls out the shortcomings. This analysis is not only 100% accurate, it’s literally just fan perfection. Prey was a 7.5/10 but it easily could’ve been a 9-9.5/10 and you literally covered every angle. RESPECT
I am a huge fan of the Predator series and having collected the comics as well..to everything in between. This prey movie to me is another nail in the coffin in the already dead franchise. And you broke it down so well. Thank you for your review.
I totally agree with everything that is outlined in this video. I will say that this was a young Predator on its first hunt, but he should have been portrayed as inexperienced and not mildly retarted. Its an advanced alien race who’s way of life revolves around hunting and with each sequel they get worse at it.
I feel like the next time hollywood wants to make a sequel or a prequel or really any movie in that case they should send The Little Platoon the screen play to read over and point out the flaws! You sir are a true critic, and I love watching your videos!
@Clober Lobster if that is the case which I agree what you said makes sense… is he supposed to just assume that the targeting system from his helmet isn’t operating in real time? Does he have no way of confirming or controlling that at all? Is it simply distance based? The helmet far away =manual aim mode… Was he firing just hoping it would hit her? I think it is fair to say he didn’t understand his own technology if he managed to unintentionally shoot himself in the head. Even for the sake of discussion if the automated laser targeting is supposed to be deactivated based on distance away from the firearm… shouldn’t he refrain from relying on it at any capacity knowing his helmet was confiscated from him and nowhere to be found. It’s not like he was strapped for options and desperate.
@Mike Smith there are no new hunter they're trained from birth to be the best killers in the galaxy a 110 pond girl isn't killing it no matter how bad your story needs to work
@ProfessorRottenCrotch everyone who against you keep saying the same thing "the hunter is new bla bla" without even care to read on "the seconds" it vs protagonist... New hunter excuses cannot justify how early on he can easily kill multiple soldiers and the big bear smh! He even goes invisible when having a hard time against Naru's brother then BAM! kills him instantly and yet doesn't bother to cloak at all when losing against Naru? Going invisible is the most basic instinct for jz anyone but he suddenly become so dumb? ...🤣
As far as I’m concerned there’s only one Predator film. It’s been staggering to watch the ball being dropped for the past 30 years with Pred, Alien and Terminator. You’d think decent stories around them would write themselves.
Ah yes, this was pitched and conceptualized as "Predator meets Home Alone". Personally, I feel this is an idea that probably sounded a lot better on paper than it turned out to be, however the little boy they cast as Kevin-McCallister-like protagonist is pretty spot on.
During the fight between Taabe and the Predator, Taabe has the predator's spear which were never shown how he got it or how the predator lost it, last time we saw that weapon it was used to kill two of the tribesmen, after that Naru is captured and we never see it again till the fight between Taabe.
when you talked about what this film lacks in comparison to the original I had to think about the ridiculous manlyness of the original. it entertained me to no end how arny and his bestie played off each other in that movie...
Blain: This stuff will make you a god damned sexual Tyrannosaurus, just like me. Poncho: (Holds up launcher) Yea? Well strap this to your sore ass Blain Love that movie so much 😄
Having worked with thermal imagers, that plant is pure magic. No different than Khan's blood in Star Trek: Into Darkness. If your body temperature is the same as the floor, you're a corpse. Your body is a chemical furnace; if your core temperature gets to low, we call that "hypothermia" and it's medically classified as "a bad thing". If this plant can lower your body temperature to the same as your floor, and you are not dying of hypothermia, that is magic.
I think why people liked it and maybe going a bit over the top in praising it isn't because of any writing, technical or directing brilliance. compared to many modern films it's traditional story telling done well, it shows not tells, the scenery is gorgeous. when you compare this to many recent adventure films there's no sense of location, the stories are overly complicated and are usually setting up some big pay-off four films away.
he had all those things yet he lost, that is what kills it for me. We got all the deadly predators yet they always lose if you can make it realistic by actually letting the predator survive then id say it's a damn masterpiece.
i loved this movie! so much action and brutal kills :3 Predator was a bit if a dummy though, but i love seeing the predator in a different time period 😊
She knew how the predator's arrow gun and helmet worked more than the predator itself *Edit* i am getting alot of the "he was shot in the head so he not be thinking clearly" excuse BUT he was doing the same mistake earlier in the movie when he tried killing the dog.
Everyone forgets the scene where he tries to shoot the brother 3 times and seems super confused as to why his arrows are circling back at the tree behind him. I guess he really was that stupid to not know how his weapons worked.
I agree that confused me, it seemed to not understand why its ammo would not hit its target when the targeting system they track was aiming elsewhere. I didnt like that but if it only happened in the final scene I really wouldnt mind.
"taking out a little wolf on the prairie is not the same thing as taking out a god damned sexual tyrannosaur" is such a good line that it makes me appreciate this sht film for having spawned it
I was convinced that The Predator 2018 already had a Predator "Killer" at the end, this one confirms it by shooting itself in the head. I'm stumped by the franchise's suicidal attempt.
"We have no reason to suspect it wasn't the predator going around killing bison" The musket ball sized hole in its head and the cigar on the ground were good reasons
I noticed the cigar but not the hole, but my initial thought was that the predator doesn't skin his victims and wouldn't kill so many if they didn't present a real challenge.
@The God you never knew Literally not overpowered. She was weak as fuck. The whole point was that she was physically weak and made up for it with intelligence.
It was important to the plot, or rather continuity I guess because that flintlock pistol was shown at the end of one of the older movies, and I guess they wanted to show where it had come from because one of the predators had awarded it to some survivor of a previous movie
I was also confused why the Predator went after random animals that happened to be predators, talk about being literal. Yes they hunt big game as it were, but Predators had a tendency to observe their targets before going after their prize, not just immediately pursue them. Why would it need to slay a snake? The only one that made sense was the bear, at least in terms of posing a moderate threat (also a callback to one of the comics where a Predator gets it arse kicked by a Mother bear) but I also like that the movie thinks these animals can all see something that's meant to be invisible, and attack the invisible threat, because that's how wild animals work and isn't absurd at all...
The thing I hated most about the movie is the whole plot with the French trapper who was the owner of the gun from Predator 2. I really wanted him to have a bigger role and it looked like the girl and him would have had some sort of team up and then out of no where they kill him off. Fans have been wondering about that pistol for years and finally we get an answer of who carried it only for him to be stepped on and killed.
i had to watch multiple times when she pulls the 400 pound beast to quicksand with that thin rope. I couldn't believe how that thing just slid into the trap. It can't be that easy even for Arnold's standards.
Seriously, how can a predator with **thermal** vision not see a trap made of mud and COLD water!?! His vision should show him a GIANT cool spot on the ground.
For this scene my brain was convinced I missed something, like an accident coincidence like these modern scripts rely on to make events connect and save protagonists, but when I saw it for the 3rd time that she did it herself, I was genuinely baffled because that is beyond unrealistic even for a fantasy alien movie.
Something that could have made that bit at the beginning work would have been if they showed the predator do something different or have something different about it, as it would have had the audience confused and have them more drawn in, questioning what else this predator was capable of
I actually really enjoyed the movie, just enjoy watching the Predator beat the snot out of people and anything else in its path, I love the franchise and definitely want more Predator films
4 minutes into this review. I’ve liked the video and I like this channel. Honestly I really liked “Prey”. Really excited to see how I feel at the end of this critique.
for the finale fight, i think shes supposed to have seen it like an advanced bow and arrow. where he looks, the red light follows, and the arrow follows the light. not different from how they use a bow, her brother shot a bird at the start of the movie. the predator probably thought the helmet was far enough away to not interfere with “manual” aim and fired it, not knowing the “aim” assist was activated. its probably the ONLY viable outcome where she lives because if it had used any other weapon or a few different scenarios and she wouldnt have been as lucky.
My experience with the movie left me researching the lore because I suddenly felt that somewhere before it was mentioned that a weaker predator had come to earth in an effort to prove itself, which would explain its childlike behavior in this movie.
Unblooded Predators wouldn't be allowed to hunt something as dangerous as a human. If it were a Blooded Predator, which it SHOULD have been, it's killed at least one Xenomorph
You forgot to emphasize on the "dog rescue" scene where she fights seven men (that are 80-90kg each) with very complex Wushu skills that learned just by throwing a tomahawk a few times.
@ThatSamoanGuy It isn't plausible. Amanda Nunes wouldn't have been able to take on two of them. Perhaps not even one. And this girl is absolutely tiny, doesn't look trained, is a trash hunter (literally the catalyst for the story) and can't be a fighter because there were no people to fight. Plus, the Comanche weren't martial artists. There's literally no explanation for it other than colored woman > White men because Hollywood despises white men. It's pure racism and sexism, and nothing else.
There’s no recapturing what made those movies great. Maverick is a stand alone movie as much as Aliens is. Just so sick of sick people trying to recreate magick that has long since left the building. Totally agree with you. Also: the deals that George and Steven made with the devil only scored them a top 5 to 10 movies success. These other producers/directors are lucky for a 1 hit wonder/.
I didn't like the movie at all, but after rewatching all the Predator movies, i must say that Prey is a step in the right direction for the franchise after Predators, The Predator and the AVPs movies.
I saw a bear hunt once. The hunter was on a hill about a half mile away. They baited the bear,shot it congrulated everyone around and praised the hunter. There was no hunt at all. He was the the predator, invisible, overpowered and safe
Considering how the alien doesn't even remotely look like a member of the predator species I'm pretty sure we can count this as not canon to the rest of the predator franchine
It's really staggering how quick some people can turn around 180 degrees just because they get a piece of meat and not just bones every once in a while.
@Tengen Uzui As Falcor the luck dragon. Well its true some depictions of me has something resembling a dog like snout. Its mostly meant to show my teeth or fangs and on closer inspection the image looks nothing like a dog. Its very clearly based on that of a constrictor or snake or other predatory snakes.. I have feathers due to my ability to fly and to better show off. My feathers and colors matches that of a actual living bird in the America's named after me called the Quetzal. These feathers can either be only around my head and neck area like a main or run all along my body. Typically the colors are Reds, Orange Reds, Yellows, Golds, Green, Emerald, occasionally some blues. Again like the bird. This also means I might also have had wings or flaps like the actual real flying snake that does indeed exist. (it just falls in style) Asian Dragons are kinda effy. Depending on the breed, importance, strength or abilities. For the most part they are depicted usually in a serpent style body with scales occasionally with hair. the Face can be dog shaped or looks like a reptiles face and or that of a alligator. Always had legs and tended to have massive feeler hairs sticking out of the nose. They represent divine power, immortality, and strength despite the fact they themselves are fairly peaceful mostly. Despite looking terrifying half the time. Least when I close My mouth I look pretty chill instead of being terrifying. Falcor is not a Asian Dragon although he clearly inherits many of the attributes of them. He is a luck dragon created by imagination and I would say he is more comparable to myself. Like me he is based on a living animal in this case a Dog with a elongated body of a reptile but retains many traits of a dog, appearance, ears, fur, paws. Tail. He is wise, polite, desires friends and companions, gives advice and has a sense of humor. After the general shock seeing him the first time you get over it pretty quickly given how nice he is. Fun fact Falcor exist in the real world still at a museum and you can ride him.
I love thr nickname you gave to the main protagonist. I appreciate your views and criticism completely. You have definitely earned this new subscriber.
Note about Hawkeye: Kate and step-dad fencing at dinner is "showing" and her shooting at the bell, with payoff later, is also "showing" so, there are better examples of telling not showing. Believe you missed the bulls-eye on that one Lost Chord
This movie taught me that as long as I have all my limbs I can survive getting shot in the back of the head and survive. But as soon as I lose some limbs I'll die from getting shot in the front of the head
Prey was such a great concept and was let down very much by the writing of it. Amber Midthunder (acting was good all around, mostly) carried the movie and kept it interesting, huge credit to her. Even the humor was on point, but the writing quality was all over the place and common sense often got throw out the window for plot devices or no reason! It seemed to start off strong, then have no idea where it wanted to go by mid movie.
A benefit of having the predator picking off the strongest warriors off-screen is that it gives you a (imo at least) more practical rationale for strong female lead to move into the 'traditionally male' hunter role - the tribe needs bodies in the role to the point where it doesn't *matter* what gender they are.
The explanation they give for why the Predator comes out of cloaking in the original films is that it's hunting to challenge itself and it's considered dishonourable to do so while cloaked because it's too easy. So, when the Predator is killing all those animals and people while cloaked, it goes against established lore and the predators' culture.
The thing that bothered me about the laser sight, was that she never sees it, yet knows how it works. It's never smoky enough to see a beam. She sees the guy get shot, but she is standing behind him. (first guy). She kneels next to a guy who gets shot at, and she saves him, knowing that darts are about to come his way. How? Wouldn't she have reacted the same way the first guy did, by thinking they were a physical thing, like bugs? When her brother knocks the helmet off, she (again) does not see the dots, only the helmet, and no beam, so how does she make the connection between the helmet and the darts going into the tree (that she can't see because they are hitting the opposite side of the tree that she is facing)? Also setting the lement where she did, would imply she knew exactly where the predator would be when using THAT weapon. The Predator knew it didn't have the face shield, so why would it fire the darts? What if the predator used one of it's other many weapons at that moment? RULE: Great to have characters conveniently fall into trouble, but it is really bad writing to have them conveniently get out of trouble.
The moment I saw the first trailer for this movie, I was like "The predator is so screwed: NO PREDATOR HAS EVEN BEEN KILLED BY A FIREARM!! And I was right. Even a gunshot to the back of the head was just a flesh wound. The thing in the movie that has killed more predators is blades, aliens, and themselves. Guns do absolutely nothing to them. He was doomed before he got off the ship.
When you've been fed manure for so long even a dry cracker appears to taste like ambrosia in comparison. I think this is what's happened with Prey. It's not absolutely terrible, it's merely mediocre, and therefore viewers think it's amazing.
Has a 93 percent rating on RT, regardless a lot of people like it. And its funny seeing people say its "good for a Predator movie" given that the entire franchise has been pretty bad. Save for the 1st which even then is mainly action schlock.
@Lou H It was made non Canon cause of this movie the movieverse is treated as the prime universe mainly but the comics served to give stories which can be told in a small sitting and I doubt at the time anyway they wanted to make short miniseries based on them and it was treated as canon cause it didn't conflict with any films at that point in time it's just a nitpick but that comic book was a solid read I recommend you read it.
I think it's good movie, not mediocre, not trash, not masterpiece, just a good enjoyable movie that doesn't make me feel like I wasted my time after watching it hence "the predator"
I agree with maybe keeping the Predator hidden more but it makes sense. This is a prequel, the Predator’s first visit on Earth. It worked it’s way up from animals to realizing humans are top prey. Its’ tech and skills are subpar to the one in Predator 1, maybe why its not as stealthy?
Her goal is to kill the beast on her own without anyone's help. that's why she/it kept turning her back on every one despite having clear shot each time the predator got distracted. The writer clearly had the ending figured out before anything else
Great analysis, I enjoyed the movie even though it had lots of problems and could have been so much better. I give it a generous 6/10, and the original predator 9/10.
I feel like someone who’s never shot a gun and has absolutely no idea what recoil is would be able to accurately shoot something even if it’s right in front of her
19:00 the Predator related confusion: it didn't kill the field of Bison < that was the French trappers (later explained at 24:40) as for the snake remains: the Predator skins its Prey when it feels its not worthy as a trophie, we saw this in the 1987 original
@TOM Realized that when he mentioned killing random animals when in actuality it killed those animals because they themselves were predators going after prey
@TheMitsinga I was always under the impression that’s how he takes his trophies (if given the time). We do see him just straight up right out a spine and skull in part 2 but it looks like a skull, as in skinned and scalped. So I just assumed it was a rush job. Even in the first one it comes back to take is it Poncho or Hawkins body, one of the two so he can get his trophy. There’s a Predator video game for like 360, pretty good. And it was canon at the time. You could string up enemies hanging like in the movies and when you took your “trophy” the resulting corpse would be skinned. Any prey “not worthy” would most likely be ignored like the unarmed woman from the first one. Or Leona (because she’s pregnant) in the sequel.
To add a point here for a little correction 1: the bullet ricochet because the skull has a built in thermal armor in the skull and the predator in this movie is showing his tech that was use in this timeline before the other predator movies were made. 2: he's hunting because in his culture, he is finding the best hunt to prove to himself to his species so they are send off to find the best hunt and make them as trophies. 3: the predators tech is what they have made up too this timeline. Ps: love your videos and big fan keep them up please do not mind my comment it's just to let you know about the lore of they're species and explaining my point where there are the movies wrongs but again it was good because of what the lore about the predator species is about in the movie
Finally! Finally a DEFINITIVE review of this overrated schlock of a prequel. Yes I'm a hardcore Predator fan and I believed prey was really overrated AF and had one of the dumbest lamest predators in the franchise. I was ok with both Amber and her brother but there were seriously too many conveniently silly moments that happen just to make her triumphant for the sake of it! Thankfully a great review like this hits almost all the problems I had with this flick! He misses pointing out the fact that the Predator invisibility is inconsistent with the first in that it never glitches when it gets hit by water. And it's weird that this Predator's medikit is MORE advanced than the other films!! But other than that, this is a very solid review unlike all the others that overpraise and overrate this, makes me wonder if those people even know Predator at all, even if they claim to be so-called fans. The biggest laugh of the century are those that claim prey is superior to the original!! The only bit disagree with this review is him claiming this franchise should stay dead.
Let's not forget she was in it to establish herself as the chieftain. No remorse for her dead brother or 6-7 other hunters npc's that have fallen. And as a viewer, it's really easy to forget about them because they all didn't have any background story- so it was actually quite convenient. I mean, they didn't have to have a huge part of the film. Just tiny tidbits to let us know they are human too, with deeper motives. However, then the film maker would need to tell men's stories again- and you'll be outcast from whatever pot of money the 'woke' industry has.
When I heard that predator is back on track I was so happy. Little did I know that after watching the movie I would fell like I was scammed. The first half is alright, outside of the main character being a piece of wood
That was not a Predator movie. It was a movie about a woman's path to emancipation, it was about people following their dreams no matter what other people will say or do, it was about braking the rules and finally, it was a tribute to Comanche ethics, customs and culture. Oh, and a Predator happened to pass by with his spaceship and decided to take a leak on Earth or something...!
Thank you for this thorough and unflinching review. On the surface it seemed like they had the basic elements to make a decent film but I gave up on this film after 30 mins due to the poor plot and lack of characterization. Something that would have kept my attention would have been to have the natives speaking a native language, like in The Northman. I'm sure if anyone had that idea it was torpedoed by the studio because they think Americans are too lazy to read subtitles. And they're probably right.
Wait... if main character is slightly chilled, and is therefore invisible, how does Pred navigate anywhere!?!? Arnie was down on the ground, among tree branches and rocks and things. And, if you look back at that movie, you can see where Arnie is if you look close enough. Pred would just keep walking into cliff-faces, and very large rocks, if he couldn't see something because it's slightly chilled.
Just to clarify the bison point, as I didn’t make it especially clear in the script: I’m aware it was the vile French, not the Predator; the problem is it makes for narrative clutter given skinned animals have previously served as a device teasing a separate mystery. The point is to draw out similarities between the Predator and the French - which is a good idea - but the delivery is lacking.
Also, and more generally, I don’t hate this film, and I do spend a lot of time explaining and praising what it does right. It has some excellent ideas. It’s the writing, characterisation and general delivery, especially in the second half, that really lets it down.
lol Yeah, I dont want that realism crap about feminism in my movies about 8ft tall aliens visiting earth lol You clowns in the comment sections : )@Harley Mann
A Predator that celebrates feminism. What a failure! I look forward to the next Predator. Hopefully they will get back to what made the franchise famous. Or, they could kill the franchise themselves, I suppose.
After I watched this movie and then looked at the reviews I was in disbelief that it didn't receive as many thumbs down as I was expecting. This is the only review that truly gives a decent account of all the pitfalls in this installment of Predator. Bad acting, bad script, sad use of a female lead, inconsistent CG quality, poor character development, unbelievable ending, and the list goes on and on.
Well obviously. Even in a movie about a massive space monster who's entire purpose is to destroy humans, the real enemies are the wh1tes. Plus that's a straight ripoff of a scene in Dances with Wolves. I sprained my eyes rolling them so hard.
It was absolutely insane for the movie to show us the predator bodying a brown bear in melee combat and then later struggling against humans.
Predator versus Cocaine Bear
This is what should have happened when Mary jumped on the Predators back the Predator should have grabbed her throwing her onto the ground holder down as he stabbed her with his wrist blades and if he was stopped by the dog he would have grabbed the dog or kicked him away because he's very small and wouldn't do much damage and we saw him body a coyote earlier so he definitely would have won that battle if it weren't for the horrible injuries he sustained from his fight with the brother
And that’s why Brown bears are on the top of the food chain and built Cities, and a wepon capable of bringing about the death of our planet :3 yah crazy
A bear that easily was going to kill her was easily killed by The predator which she goes on to kill
Here's an idea: how about a "Predator" movie where the Predator actually does what it's supposedly great at and successfully kills everyone.
Somebody had to say it thank you
And it all being from the Predator's point of view, making them the protagonist and having every reason to actually win the story
@DiamondDead I think with good writing u can still have tension and stakes by making it a struggle rather than a 1 sided massacre I mean sure the point would be the predator winning in the end but that doesnt mean it has to come out unscathed it could still end with some wounds while still taking victory. The predator could also just be set up like a horror movie where u follow a set of people trying to survive while hearing the screams and terror in the distance of people fighting back while the try and figure out whats going on while giving those people or just the audience peeks at the predator or just showing the aftermath of it going through an area and end it with the predator winning and maybe some of the main cast dying because they had weapons that made them worth hunting so then the survivors see someone die by an invisible creature in a dimly lit area as they have no idea what happened are not only traumatized by the destruction and horror but also by something unexplainable or unbelievable that they all personally witnessed at the end
@Sarina T I had a pitch but yours... damn that's gold
If it's vision is exclusively thermal (which I think it is since it stepped on a whole guy without noticing him) how the hell did it catch a snake that's both cold blooded AND mostly immobile
Lol. I didn’t spot that!
You mocked the scene where Naru learns how the predator's helmet works but you missed a glaring flaw: She is behind the tree that is being shot. She cannot know that the lasers are aimed at the tree - to her, it's just some bright red thing on the predator's head armor. From her vantage point, she cannot see the dots on the tree and cannot see that the darts are hitting the dots.she can see nothing but a glowing bit on the predator's head armor so she should learn nothing.
Then the finale when she magically lines everything up based on knowledge she couldn't have seen, couldn't have learned, and couldn't have understood, was ludicrous.
I predicted that she was going to grab his helmet and wrist launcher and wear the things to hunt the predator. At least that wouldn't require her to create a Rube Goldberg ending.
@Caliginous Moira Keep that self hate bs to yourself
@Caliginous Moira I mean… yeah. This movie was supposedly higher rated than the original Predator. I can say, without a doubt, human’s are stupid asf. This movie not be higher rated than the classic Predator movie.
Thanks, I was saying the same thing when this movie came out.
I just added the cargoeffect
@Caliginous Moira I'd like to disagree with you.... but I can't lol
Had she pulled the helmet off with her Tomahawk on a string, and pulled it towards her, then aimed the lasers at the Predator, it wouldn't have made the Predator look as if he grew up wearing a safety helmet
The plot armor in this movie is so strong that it's actively protecting the movie from any criticsm.
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Translated: "Well, yeah, you're right that almost every single movie has plot holes/plot armor and BS in it, but but THIS movie has WIMMENZ defeating the predator and and that's just too much!"
Seriously. This thread is 4 months old. Go back to playing video games.
@M Gassstraw man argument plus deflecting and sure most do but to a point where it can be agured away but not to this point
@M Gass guy takes a shot from a plasma canon
A device that has multiple settings to not paste and waste power needlessly.
What next?
Nemesis from resident evil was weakened because in the cutscene she shoots it a few times to kill it- right after the boss fight with the rail gun?
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I agree with a lot of your points. My biggest issue is how Naru went after the Predator for no reason other than she found it’s tracks and a skinned snake and that no one would believe her. The Predator wasn’t bothering her or her tribe so there was no reason for her to go after it. And when she did, she foolishly led her tribesmen right to it where they got butchered. Not to to mention how it was also because of her that her brother was captured and tortured by the fur traders. She never even acknowledges that any of it was her fault or learns from it. I thought the whole point of her mother lecturing her that hunting for their people is not about proving oneself but about survival was to set her up to learn this later but she never does. This whole movie from start to finish was about her wanting to prove she could hunt even at the cost of the lives of her brother and tribesmen, even if they were brainless morons and dicks, and she never goes through any kind of character development at all other than enhancing her skills. And it really annoys me how everyone keeps regarding her as an awesome action heroine and the best protagonist in the franchise when she really isn’t. She’s an entitled teenage girl who doesn’t listen to anybody from her tribe who tells her she can’t or shouldn’t do something even if what they’re telling her is sound advice.
@Face Face That ending could be explained as "she got lucky" - she took the helmet without really understanding anything about it, and maybe put it to a tree mostly as a lure in hopes the predator might try to retrieve it, and then simply got incredibly lucky while the stupid predator managed to not notice the helmet or the whole situation and accidentally shot itself. So, really not a story about a heroic girl winning a fight against that predator than a story of the most stupid ever predator (probably their version of the village idiot) failing abysmally in its hunt.
thats bcuz jus like everything else these days ,the movie was strictly about female empowerment, notice every male died bcuz of her and she was made a leader at the end, but she was worthless 1st her brother saved her multiple times, she got all the men killed then the dog saved her life and helped her kill the predator lol the dog was the true hero of the movie, horrible movie
The dumbest part of the movie was when Naru realized that the Predator can't see people if their body temperature is low.
So she's at the Frenchman camp giving the guy the medicine that lowers body temperature, Predator arrives, she goes to hide behind a tree and the guy tries to crawl away and then plays dead.
The Predator looks around, SEES all the dead bodies, SEES the blood trail, SEES the guy who left the blood trail, stares right down at the guy, and decides he must be dead like the rest of them because he's lying on the ground and he's cold. We know this because we're SHOWN THOURGH THE PREDATORS EYES.
Meanwhile, Naru looks at what the Predator is doing and comes to the conclusion that IT COULDN'T SEE HIM. When in fact he could see everything, none of the people in the camp (dead or alive) were invisible to him.
Naru later takes the medicine, moves 2 inches and the Predator walks right past her. He should've seen her of course because she wasn't invisible, she was just cold, and SHE WAS STANDING UPRIGHT, not playing dead.
idk, maybe he did see her just standing there pretending to be invisible, and thought "oh no!, this girl must be retarded" and just left her alone because killing retarded people is not honorable
the whole "lowers her temperature thing" is still weird to me. if it gets ur temperature too low, wouldnt it affect your body? especially at night, when it's cold. plus, lowering the temperature doesnt bring it to "none", wouldnt she still be greenish-yelowish?
@KAIwhen Dutch is within 10 feet his body head shows up better to an unmasked jungle hunter. Beyond 10 feet and Dutch blends into the surroundings. And jungle Hunter’s forehead actually presses against a spike and that’s how he notices, but it doesn’t have anything to do with his vision, the spikes were intentionally obstructed by big leaves.
@DeonteArnold moves outside of the predator’s point of view. At the beginning of the battle when Arnold is waiting on the tree and the predator comes up next to him, Arnold is still until the predator moves past. Arnold swings on a vine to the next tree and is still while the predator is trying to figure out what moved. Arnold hits him with the explosive arrow and the predator starts lobbing shots everywhere, only focusing on Arnold when he’s running in a straight line away. Arnold crosses paths with the predator, but outside of his field of view, and hides under the log. Arnold grabs the spears, and because of his heat sig hiding mud and the thick vegetation, Arnold manages to stay in the predator’s blind spot. Following the predators blood trail, Arnold moves between some rocks and the predator doubles back, and though Arnold is still, he’s lost some mud and the predator notices. Arnold drops his explosive, momentarily blinding the predator, falls into a pool of water, loses all of his mud and that’s where the predator actually catches him.
One instance of Arnold “moving around covered in mud” while in the predators field of view. And in that instance, the predator saw him. So, no real inconsistencies.
@Phatch So that justifies the predator lowering its guard entirely and just being stupid. Seriously… how can ppl try to defend this movie bruh
Yes, this is the difference between Arnold and the mud, and Naru. Even though the mud wouldn't shield someone for nearly as long as it did in the movie (my only main gripe with the original), at least he knew to try and blend in and not to move around or stand upright.
Aside from it being the French killing the bison in the film, the French and the Native American tribes actually had excellent relations. So good in fact, they were allied during several wars, and regularly traded furs for metal items, such as pots and so on.
@rose valentine the French trappers must have been very lost eh? Lol
@Biomecha That was the Spanish; I love to rag on my 'Hispanic' acquaintances (especially if they're PC), They call Thanks giving "Indigenous Peoples day, but give themselves (the descendants of the Spanish, who actually 'rick rolled' the first nations for a couple of centuries before the British OR the French ever showed up), a whole month of 'celebration' of Latin Heritage. So, I always ask 'are you absolving yourselves of blame for the crimes of your ancestors?'
@Ascended Bro Hey slick...what other native American movies even feature Frenchmen?
@Ryan Arment Wow, Hollywood making mistakes in the depiction of Native American tribes! Has such a thing ever happened before? This must be a first time.
One of the weirdest things for me was the choice of ending: she returns to her tribe in triumph, carrying the Predator's head (and the translator's pistol), throws it at the feet of her elders, and smiles as she is named warchief.
what
First and foremost, her recklessness is to blame for no fewer than FIVE of the tribe's dead. The four hunters that went out to find her wouldn't be there if she hadn't baselessly decided that she knew better than everyone else and ran off on her own. Her brother wouldn't be dead if not for, again, a similar reason.
If she had a character arc, I thought it would have involved the apparent glamor of being a hunter and warrior being just that: a glamour, or an illusion. The way she was 'training' earlier was so laughably out of touch with what you'd actually need to know as a hunter/warrior that it was comical. Pointlessly parkour-kicking off trees while chasing a rabbit? Throwing a hatchet? Making a scuffed version of Skorpion's weapon from 'Mortal Kombat'?
But then, not only did this baffling non-training actually appear to work, but when faced with all the death and destruction that it took to bring down the Predator...she slices off its head, paints herself with its blood, and leaves the brother who sacrificed himself to save her to be eaten by scavengers.
There was a lot of plot armor along the way, too, but I'd say the second most disappointing character was the Predator himself. He's a big, dumb monster that _constantly_ stumbles into traps and ambushes, and then survives because of a combination of insano-tech and having been buffed to the point of insanity. He's an incompetent, cowardly idiot that would have died a dozen times over if he weren't given such an insane and unreasonable amount of strength, speed, agility, and coordination.
The cowardly part comes from his tech, particularly when he decides to activate his Amazon drone C4 delivery service to seek out and autonomously murder the rest of the trappers. It fell into the same category of 'haha, look! reference! u liek reference, yes?!' that the pistol was.
The mines got used in previous media when shit was _serious._ AvP2's Predator used them to clear out xenomorphs in the town's sewers because he was there to _eradicate_ them and take care of any other traces of extraterrestrial stuff. And the pistol was given to Danny Glover in Predator 2 after he successfully slew a Predator in single combat, and it had a custom nameplate with both a fancy European name and a date that fell within the Golden Age of Piracy. The comics had more on it, but I could infer all I needed from the context it was given and the appearance of the gun.
But I guess it belonged to some randy French trapper that happened to speak the local language, sorta-wounded a Predator, and then...well, I guess the tribe isn't long for this world, because it still ended up on a Predator ship by the 1990s.
@Druid of Scosglen Then Wolf is a bad example. He was still hanging corpses on trees and fighting Aliens hand-to-hand. He even took off all his stuff at the end to reference the first movie!
People seem to forget that Requiem's Predator, Wolf, was not a hunter as such, he was clean up detail aka A WARRIOR first and foremost, hunters take trophies, warriors kill their enemies to end a threat, big difference.
@Have a Go Auto Repair I say good, don't like undeserving victors that have zero character nor human emotion.
She was essentially a robot that got waaay too much plot armor so I'm happy the plot armor didn't save her in the end.
If you watched the end credits the pictogram retelling of Naru's adventure ends with a Predator ship appearing in the sky over the village, to swelling ominous music. Implying that the Predator's companions returned and something really bad happened to Naru and her people. I guess the more defensible position the war chief moved her tribe to wasn't defensible enough. And we know her pistol ends up in the trophy hall on the ship in 1990 when it is given to Danny Glover in Predator 2.
Some Yautja in the comics are straight overpowered like him, just not as dumb
What the HELL is with the magic flower that somehow cools people to the temperature of the environment in seconds, which those people somehow survive? How the Hell is that supposed to work? And why would that even render people invisible to the predator? Things still radiate heat at different rates, even when they're all at the same temperature. Which is lucky for the Predator, otherwise it would be walking into trees, and tripping over rocks.
Its called "science fiction"
@Ash Scott all I said was that there is a real flower that is used for fevers. I already said it wouldn’t work.
@Weyland Punani But they lower core temperature, by increasing blood flow to the skin and INCREASING surface temperature. That would just make you even more visible to the Predator
@Mooni dosent matter. From what we know from previous predator movies the Yautja don’t simply stop targeting their prey because they’re no longer a “threat”. Once their prey shows fighting capabilities it’s on.
@Graveside Poet the predator didn’t do anything to her as 1) the French man was the main focus so he stood out more and 2) the predator didn’t see her as a threat at that moment before getting shot
It is basically an example of "in the kindgom of the blind, one-eyed is the king" - when we take a look at less than stellar history of Predator sequels (basically everything after Predator 2)... Prey looks like a masterpiece in comparison.
My biggest problems are lack of good personality of its characters and most importantly the fact that Predator... is out of character - the bloody thing does not exactly act like a haunter most of the time, it acts like a mumbling idiot - going into traps, basically brute forcing its way into direct combat like a video game boss being like "I have enough HP to tank this shit".
I mean, in the original, Predator was very strong and difficult to kill indeed, but it relied on subtle tactics until the ending - honourable duel, basically.
Speaking of Predator's honour... the part with the bomb baffles me - in the original movie, it was implied, and confirmed in later lore that suicide through a bomb is basically a way for a predator to preserve honour when mortally wounded. Not to mention, the bracer that Predator in Prey discarded was shown to contain some sort of computer vital for decent portion of its equipment...
Another thing is the mask - the skull mask of the new Predator is cool... but it was heavily implied in original that mask contains apparatus making it easier for Predator to breathe - it is an alien being, it is logical for it to come from a place with different air composition - open mouth design of mask in Prey therefore makes little sense... Oh... and mask was more firmly attached to the head, so it being knocked out easily by protagonist's brother also makes no sense - you know, considering it doubles as re-breather for an alien creature that tends to run a lot and jump on trees, you don't want this thing to fall of easily, yet it does in Prey.
And while we are pointing lore inconsistencies - Predator's cloak was shown to not function when wet, it short circuits... Yet in Prey it has no issues working when drenched in river water and bear blood, despite this Predator's gear being more primitive than in original.
It was an okay, flawed movie... but it is treated like second coming of Christ, which honestly is overhyping and overselling it horribly.
I agree with a good amount of this but overall it was a pretty good/very decent movie and I enjoyed it and hope for better sequels. But tbh this guys video contradicts itself back to back and nitpicks so hard, also didnt understand or appreciate the random political commentary?
@Muhammad Ali why not?
@Waterbug why tho
@Muhammad Ali Because Prey was woke as hell.
@Waterbug Why was prey bad?
That temp lowering concoction lowered your body temp enough to trick thermals, and did it that quickly, you'd probably die of shock.
@Coramelimane A few people complaining about something is not the same as the audience complaining. If you want something more like an audience you might try Rotten Tomatoes over Incel KZclip clusters. Prey has a 93% critic score and even with Incels using KZclip and discord servers to try and tank the public reception still has a 73% audience score. That means a vast majority of all voters professional and user are positive so you don't have a point. I think there may be an Incel only Movie site called Rotten Coach Potatoes that reflects these views.
@Bob Hooker doesn;t matter if it "works in hollywood." if people are complaining about it. it doesn't work with the audience and breaks immersion.
@Nate B It works in Hollywood, stop over thinking the thing. In Hollywood movies things get powers because the plot needs them sometimes. Star Wars did it, they had a entire cult of magic wizards with some kind of midichlorians that gave them magic powers. Luke was able to talk to his dead friend in space so he could get advice on how to use the Force. In the second movie this same dead friend tells him to see out Yoda. Hollywood.
1. Predator
2. Predators
3. Predator 2
4. Prey
5. The Predator absolutely sucked..
This really depends on how the predators thermal vision works. Generally, flir, the leading thermal imaging company reads surface temps. For some, holding up a thin sheet will block a visual. I chalked it up to surface temp rather than another in the many plot holes
the predator shooting himself in the head is a metaphor of the franchise.
@Face Face Yes I care NOTHING about the INTEGRITY of Hollywood franchises, firstly because I am an adult and i have serious matters to care about, but secondly I find that when most people talk about LORE or FRANCHISE, they don't really understand either and are generally just complaining about gender of racial changes from previously all white all male story lines. I would point to LotR and RoP as a demonstration. Many INCELs moaned that RoP was not being true to the LORE, which most of them never read so they took to be the movie LotR but not the Hobbit movies. Selective much? But a look at what Tolkien's estate and the International due paying Tolkien Society said what LotR film essentially raped the source to make an action movie for. boys. RoP has more estate and professional Tolkien scholar input and is more true to the LORE of the books than the movies
@Bob Hooker u didn't clarify anything except for the fact that u could less about the integrity of the film or franchise and the only good thing is that u didn't have to waste your time going to a theater to see this complete mockery and u would probably date anything if u think she was hot lol I'd rather have the dog as a pet than her for a girlfriend.. definitely a 1st hunt for that particular predator
@Face Face Okay, there is this woman in this native community who wants to become a hunter. Its a Predator movie so nothing about the alien has to make sense. The Predator makes easy work of a group of French and Native men but the Predator also rejects her threat. So in a nightime battle which suspends less disbelief then Terminator 2 or Star Trek 3 you have a nice night fight with a really hot looking female star kicking its ass and then going home to crow about the achievement. Its kind of a movie, its summer time, fun film the family can sit on the coach in the air-con and watch together.
lol really?? well explain the rest of the nonsense in this movie and everything covered in this video since your the expert, explain how the damn dog was smarter than the predator, explain how the dog was the real hero in the movie......
Crazy how everyone (justly) calls Rey a merry sue but somehow it's not mentioned here, people say she outsmarted him.
The scene where the predator holds her by her neck and just doesn't feel like crushing/snapping it despite 1v1ing a bear a few moments ago is her outsmarting him
@B1 19-75 Its a Sci-Fi action movie. In Star Wars how do the ships fline across the Galaxy in a matter of hours? Why in Terminator did they not just send back a small army of terminators? I mean come on.
@Bob Hooker We are having two separate conversations here or you misunderstood my point. Either way take care
@Savage Shot I am not sure how Prey changed much of anything from Predator: the Predator functions essentially the same, they look differently but its 100s of years before. If anything Prey marks a return to classic Predator after the Redator Vs Alien and later sequels tried to turn the Predator into the good guy. Prey is the most like Predator returning to themes of American colonialization, mono on mono in the woods, and the need to outsmart the Predator.
@Bob Hooker I mean to the beginning of your comment yes thats my point, you were speaking as if you understood exactly how the predator was functioning.
Sci fi movies of course require some suspension of disbelief, but that doesn't mean the in-universe parameters that its sets can just be changed or else the audience is basically alienated to it because the universe itself is alien to its own rules if its contradicting itself or its set of rules in said sci fi universe.
The quotes you're providing mean nothing to me. Do with that as you will, Im indifferent to the new star wars movies.
Edit: What did you think of the star wars movies?
If the "feral" predator is so inexperienced that it can't really differentiate a worthy strong enemy as many of the movie supporters said, then why does it chose not to hunt Naru the first moment they met.
@Michael Jensen which would make the predator an idiot which it isn't u don't become the most successful hunter with the most advanced tech and make dumb decisions like underestimating anyone
100% by the predator's experience, any human that's not French with a metal gun is pretty much holding a stick with string (bow and arrow) or a stick tied to a rock (tomahawk/axe) and he's seems just fine killing her fellow comanches in the woods.
The logical predator thing to do is kill ALL the humans once he realizes they weaponize wooden sticks. Hence, no more innocent by-standers.
The bear was going after Naru and she wasn't winning. The Predator beat the bear, therefore she was second-handedly beaten as well, and so not a worthy opponent at the time.
The beginning of the movie really worked against it, in my opinion. The movie goes to a decent length to build up the setting and the society the main character lives in, but it's totally undermined by the choice of main character. Given the realities of tribal life, the main character wouldn't have had the time to learn much of anything about hunting as she would have had her own set of responsibilities, and more than likely, would have already been with child given her age.
The thing is, this could have been remedied if they just shifted the main character's background to being an outsider to the tribe. They could have kept her as a woman while also realistically explaining why she has the time and knowledge to hunt as an outsider might naturally be excluded from daily life.
@KV-2 The king of Derp Shit, you're right, my bad.
@Straight White Male You disagreed with him. And yes, it's racist. Because that's what that buzzword means these days
@Straight White Male He doesn't know and you'll never see him again. He's seething hard right now.
Making her an outsider would not be unprecedented either. For the Comanche, and many native nations in general, outsiders were often integrated into the society, sometimes forcefully, other times not. I haven’t seen the movie but this looks like before the Comanche started their empire building meaning there would be less outsiders and everyone would be more wary of them for their own survival against other tribes and settlers.
@Lawrence Cummings Point out to me what I said was racist.
I like how the French explorers, farther west than they could've been in real life at that time, are dumb and terrible at surviving and fighting. They managed to stay alive, uncaptured and freely operating on Comanche or Apache land , which would require a variety of exceptional skills - none of which they have in the film.
The actors are mostly english canadians who barely speak french. The leader of the french in the movie is played by Mike Patterson, a stand up comedian from Montreal. Amazing guy, really funny, but horrible is this movie.
@englishsteel2347 then again, April is kinda cute with those "cheetah" marks around her eyes
@Dinggis Khaan It's the North Plains on the border with Canada, I guess. so there's only French Trappers up there.
The French were VERY thin on the ground in North America, which is why during the French and Indian Wars, the French officers and professional soldiers relied on Indian allies. Apparently the landholding classes in France didn't want their serfs running away to a new life in the new world==who'd worth their estates, then?
THAT being said, the French were pretty much restricted to the NORTH of the Continent, on the Canadian border. That's why Sacajawea was married to a French Mountain man. The Commanches didn't move south into 'Spanish North America' until later--it was when they moved south that they became 'The Empire of The Summer Moon' (better to be the hunter than the prey, so to speak).
I don't know why, but the Spanish bribed the Commanches with gold, horses, weapons (and bought their slaves) and flattery to keep 'em from causing too much trouble.
What happened next I'm not too clear about but 'Mexico' got independence from Spain (trouble with Napoleon made it too hard to keep the colonies?) The government of Independent Mexico (which almost certainly meant politicians/officers/bureaucrats/landowners who were Spanish extracted) stopped paying the tributes to the Commanches because they started bickering among themselves for the 'riches' the country had.
The predator was doing so good against bad guys, doing 180 slo mo spin after throwing a bear trap at a dude’s head but then it becomes stupid and amateur when fighting against our main character Naru. The biggest problem though is that Naru doesn’t look Native American.
Oni That's the Spanish for ya! Anyway, you think the Indigenous 'Empires' offered anything to the subjects they conquered? I mean other than heart surgery or becoming a meal?
@Bob Hooker Underestimation started in Korea---setting realistic goals (like stopping at the most narrow part of the peninsula instead of driving all the way to the damned Manchurian border) would have helped.
Well the actress is and its a known thing for tribes to abduct children or women so who knows.
You were making good points until then.
@Neiasaurus Creations Sure what ever, the US won the Vietnam war and what ever.
@Bob Hooker Your response is broken up into at least 3 SEPERATE posts. So I'm not going to even bother replying to it all. You don't bother making it coherent and in a single post, I don't bother to read them. I have better things to do than to track down, and read multiple posts and taken notes to respond to it. But the one I did respond to was factually incorrect in everything it said. Which tells me enough about how bad you are at history. Imagine thinking the south won, when its literally untrue.
I think we've reached the point where so many recent/current movies are so painfully lacking in the basics of good storytelling, that when one comes out that gets it right (Maverick) or even gets it mostly right (Prey), it stands out and engages the audience that have been deprived for so long.
@Rob L You dont know why?
Well, I dont know how people could think of an 50 kilo girl with little to zero combatexperience against grown men who are way stronger and durable than todays males.
Well, I think it is called "sense of realism"
Prey is a horrible movie
Prey was a terrible film. The only good thing about it was the landscapes and scenery. I haven't enjoyed any new films for a long time. They all now have some kind of political agenda. I watch films to escape all that, I don't need it shoved down my throat 24/7
@Dravianpn02 You can make the claim of nearly anything if you boil it down far enough, all I am saying is it was an ATTEMPT, even if poorly done, to explain most of her survival (by running away, and not seeming to be a worthy hunt). I will give credit to a poor attempt... but that doesnt mean it was a case of "woman strong" in all the scenes. Cant be so locked into your stance that it blinds you to failed attempts to do better my friend.
I've been so frustrated with the non stop praise this movie has been getting. You noticed basically every problem I did. I feel so validated now. Thank you. 😂
@Misanthropic Attack helicopter I'm one of them
@Cybernet343 Makes you wonder how many people actually refused to watch it because they banged the drum on "The Message".
It features a minority character so its used as a "immune to criticism" card. Its really pathetic, especially because this movie is pretty decent. But we cant have this movie succeed by its own merit or it would undermine "the message".
In a world where everything is a woke shitshow, a mediocre movie like Prey seems like a masterpiece.
The second predator was great. No idea how anyone dislikes it
Predator 2 was, and is, a great film imo. It was always a very enjoyable, entertaining, and imo, very overlooked sequel. It’s dark and gritty, the urban theme is done brilliantly, the lead character is brilliant, side characters are good, there’s many memorable scenes - the Prince Willie alley scene, the train scene, the cemetery scene, etc., there’s a fantastic third act and final battle, there are some damn disturbing but epic kills, there’s more depth when it comes to the lore - great film.
@Kenneth Satria It was def a good sequel. It's nothing incredible or mind blowing but a sci-fi action flick with fun characters, a vibe and added to the franchise lore.... compared to the shit now it's downright amazing LMAO.
@Kenneth Satria '"birds, those damn birds"
Yeah that also kind of puzzles me a lot, its pretty damn solid as like a supernatural murder case and it was sick to see a Predator take to the streets of a concrete jungle for the sequel.
Your point about Frenchie's quick explanation of how to use his flintlock pistol is dead on.
I paused the movie and asked my wife if she understood the instructions and felt like she could now load that weapon properly and she emphatically said no. And she's at least heard of guns and seen them in numerous movies, so she had some idea what gunpowder is, and what she called "bullets" though her use of that word was wrong, but she described the lead shot fairly accurately. She knew there was a rod she would have to remove but wasn't sure why. So she had a head start on Naru and didn't understand it.
@Have a Go Auto Repair Yes, this is called the cargoeffect
Flintlock is a particularly finicky and unreliable technology. But isn't it an interesting juxtaposition that Naru can't figure out the flintlock pistol but instantly masters laser targeting and guidance.
I agree with you about the "If it bleeds we can kill it" line.
Stealing from the better movie just reminds us that there was a better movie.
If they were going to steal a Predator quote, they should have stolen one from Sonny Landham who played Billy.
e.g. "There's something out there waiting for us, and it ain't no man. We're all gonna die."
"GET TO THE CHOPPA" 😂
I just finished this movie and I audibly said, "This is the Simple Rick of Predators."
The Protagonist got SUPER lucky very consistently. The orange flower touches your tongue and your heat signature is instantly gone from head to toe? He can track a blood trail, but can't see a grown woman standing directly in front of him as he moves forward? He gets her with his shield, but she falls directly between two rocks, stopping the shield with perfect timing. I mean, I've heard of plot armor, but come on!
Why does this Yautja have arrows? They have space travel, invisibility, layered vision, instant wound sealant, but no plasma caster? Why does this Predator seem to have no grasp for how his Arrow Caster operates? Why did he just kinda drop his spear, essentially just handing it to her, when the pupper nipped at his heels? He literally bodied a grizzly bear earlier and now a little ole pupper nipping at his ankles is going to make him go into full retard spasm attack? SENSORY OVERLOAD SENSORY OVERLOAD.
This was possibly the worst movie I have ever seen.
This predator didn’t seem like it was looking for the strongest warrior. It looked like it was just exploring, casually hunting and then started killing people as they kept getting close and closer to it.
as long as we're making up back stories out of thin air....i 'd like to say that it LOOKED like the comanche girl is actually a synthetic, one of the androids from Aliens, but a prototype.
That would explain why
she's able to outfight it,
outsmart it,
understand laser sighting,
collapsible pred armor,
thermal imaging,
survive a bear trap with no limp,
knows medicine,
knows hunting,
knows tracking,
overshadows veteran tribal hunters,
outfight hardened French trappers,
understand space travel (instead of thinking the "gods are angry" when she sees the ship in the sky)
Or....we could accept the story for the inconsistencies it presents, instead of making things up
It's not there on a holiday, it will be training, trying to prove itself to its always watching superiors. Like in Predator 2. Also scoping the territory and studying behaviour.
He's just fighting everything that's trying to fight or attacks him. It's just survival instinct and not much else. Older movies were more about their 'culture' of challenge.
@Yoda W a bottle of Jack Daniels I’m mad about both movies even predator hunting grounds the game completely fucked the lore by turning female predators into looking like human women instead of being larger and stronger versions of the males like they’re supposed to be nothing from the franchise recently has felt like predator
@GroovyHoovy2 I seriously couldn’t care so long as the movie isn’t dog shit. The Predator discredited the lore *and* sucked ass, be mad about that movie
I will say, “Predators” was definitely a cool take, and very underrated.
The ending was pretty mediocre but overall I thought it was an enjoyable movie.
One of the great things about keeping the alien off screen is that we are generally only allowed to see the creature when the cast sees the creature and generally with the same clarity. We get to experience the characters first real sighting of the alien with them. Our foreknowledge of the alien enhances rather than diminishes the moment.
After seeing her practicing with the axe on a rope earlier in the movie, where pretty much no one could pull out a lodged axe so perfectly into their hand by tugging on a rope, I realised the level of suspension of disbelief which i needed for the movie and allowed me to overlook a bunch of the plot holes and enjoy the movie
Oni Fr.....it was practical, its doable. Having practiced stuff like knife and axe throwing at ranges AND in forests on real trees, you absolutely can both lodge something into a tree and still easily pull it out.
terrible film
@Diomedes ive never tried hunting deer nor parkouring, so to me that seemed within the realms of reason :D
Same
I love that we’re already getting into the secondary wave of “Whoa whoa, it’s not a completely unwatchable mess, but let’s not get crazy.”
It’s The Force Awakens, Halloween 2018, and the first Jurassic World all over again.
Hey, I was saying that about TFA and Jurassic World as soon as I left the cinema! First wave. Though I couldn’t have imagined what would come next…
Prey is a masterpiece , my favourite part was when she said "it's preyin time" and preyed all over the place before using the dark hold to summon Wednesday adams and just scissoring until galadriel shows up .
Guys. She ripped one of his mandibles off, and then stabbed him with it. Oh yeah, while getting pinned by his shield. It came off like it was held on by a fridge magnet.
Oof.
This movie sucked and the end was the absoute worst part. Pred goes from Spidderman agility vs the hunters and pressing a bear carcass overhead to being bested by a 100lb girl flat on her back. Utter gargage.
@Soofiamaria Give me one example of o woman ripping lets say a finger of a man. There are a lot of rape going on in the world. Not a single time when adrenaline gave a woman (even man) a super strength to rip a part of a body of a human being. Here we are talking about a creature who can go toe to toe with a bear. Predators mandibles are not a chicken legs first of all, second adrenaline doesnt give you THAT amount of strength.
@SomeoneWith Opinion are you fighting for your life when you're cooking your chicken? Adrenaline is a hell of a drug, it's a completely real thing to become much stronger in adrenaline filled or life or death situations.
Yes that stood out to me too like a sore thumb, either her strength levels vary or predators durability either way it was silly
I hope I get a chance to direct a big screen movie one day, because I’d pay someone like you as much as humanly allowed to do what you did here. Never dogged anything in a tasteless way and calls out the shortcomings. This analysis is not only 100% accurate, it’s literally just fan perfection. Prey was a 7.5/10 but it easily could’ve been a 9-9.5/10 and you literally covered every angle. RESPECT
I am a huge fan of the Predator series and having collected the comics as well..to everything in between. This prey movie to me is another nail in the coffin in the already dead franchise.
And you broke it down so well.
Thank you for your review.
I totally agree with everything that is outlined in this video. I will say that this was a young Predator on its first hunt, but he should have been portrayed as inexperienced and not mildly retarted. Its an advanced alien race who’s way of life revolves around hunting and with each sequel they get worse at it.
When this movie was getting so much hype and support I was genuinely confused and almost shocked.
I feel like the next time hollywood wants to make a sequel or a prequel or really any movie in that case they should send The Little Platoon the screen play to read over and point out the flaws! You sir are a true critic, and I love watching your videos!
The Predator becoming a complete moron the second he has any interaction with the protagonist is what bothered me the most with the movie.
@Fr33domSouL yeah right...........it's like you killed 20 Deer and get killed by one Doe because your a new hunter.
@Clober Lobster if that is the case which I agree what you said makes sense… is he supposed to just assume that the targeting system from his helmet isn’t operating in real time? Does he have no way of confirming or controlling that at all? Is it simply distance based? The helmet far away =manual aim mode… Was he firing just hoping it would hit her? I think it is fair to say he didn’t understand his own technology if he managed to unintentionally shoot himself in the head. Even for the sake of discussion if the automated laser targeting is supposed to be deactivated based on distance away from the firearm… shouldn’t he refrain from relying on it at any capacity knowing his helmet was confiscated from him and nowhere to be found. It’s not like he was strapped for options and desperate.
@Mike Smith there are no new hunter they're trained from birth to be the best killers in the galaxy a 110 pond girl isn't killing it no matter how bad your story needs to work
@Fr33domSouL her bro naru knew the future... he nevet stood a chance😔
@ProfessorRottenCrotch everyone who against you keep saying the same thing "the hunter is new bla bla" without even care to read on "the seconds" it vs protagonist...
New hunter excuses cannot justify how early on he can easily kill multiple soldiers and the big bear smh! He even goes invisible when having a hard time against Naru's brother then BAM! kills him instantly and yet doesn't bother to cloak at all when losing against Naru? Going invisible is the most basic instinct for jz anyone but he suddenly become so dumb? ...🤣
As far as I’m concerned there’s only one Predator film. It’s been staggering to watch the ball being dropped for the past 30 years with Pred, Alien and Terminator. You’d think decent stories around them would write themselves.
Ah yes, this was pitched and conceptualized as "Predator meets Home Alone".
Personally, I feel this is an idea that probably sounded a lot better on paper than it turned out to be, however the little boy they cast as Kevin-McCallister-like protagonist is pretty spot on.
During the fight between Taabe and the Predator, Taabe has the predator's spear which were never shown how he got it or how the predator lost it, last time we saw that weapon it was used to kill two of the tribesmen, after that Naru is captured and we never see it again till the fight between Taabe.
when you talked about what this film lacks in comparison to the original I had to think about the ridiculous manlyness of the original. it entertained me to no end how arny and his bestie played off each other in that movie...
Blain: This stuff will make you a god damned sexual Tyrannosaurus, just like me.
Poncho: (Holds up launcher) Yea? Well strap this to your sore ass Blain
Love that movie so much 😄
The idea that a person could throw a hatchet with a leather line connected to it was hilarious.
Having worked with thermal imagers, that plant is pure magic. No different than Khan's blood in Star Trek: Into Darkness. If your body temperature is the same as the floor, you're a corpse. Your body is a chemical furnace; if your core temperature gets to low, we call that "hypothermia" and it's medically classified as "a bad thing". If this plant can lower your body temperature to the same as your floor, and you are not dying of hypothermia, that is magic.
@10secondsrule You understand the difference between sci-fi and fantasy as genres, right?
@10secondsrule quite a bit of predator technology could theoretically exist in the future, so your point is moot.
Let us not forget about that magical axe on a rope that defies physics
A d it works instantly..lol
Hahaha yeah very true but the average viewer wont mind this at all. It is a scifi movie and I preferred this to the mud AGAIN
I think why people liked it and maybe going a bit over the top in praising it isn't because of any writing, technical or directing brilliance. compared to many modern films it's traditional story telling done well, it shows not tells, the scenery is gorgeous. when you compare this to many recent adventure films there's no sense of location, the stories are overly complicated and are usually setting up some big pay-off four films away.
he had all those things yet he lost, that is what kills it for me. We got all the deadly predators yet they always lose if you can make it realistic by actually letting the predator survive then id say it's a damn masterpiece.
Spot on LP. Another brilliant commentary. Love your work.
Lol his delivery of “if it bleeds, we can kill it” has way less weight than old arnies rendition
i loved this movie! so much action and brutal kills :3 Predator was a bit if a dummy though, but i love seeing the predator in a different time period 😊
To me it looked like he was still learning and was lacking experience
She knew how the predator's arrow gun and helmet worked more than the predator itself
*Edit* i am getting alot of the "he was shot in the head so he not be thinking clearly" excuse BUT he was doing the same mistake earlier in the movie when he tried killing the dog.
@brian murphy I think the arrows were on his arm or something
Yeah, I always thought that was stupid
Everyone forgets the scene where he tries to shoot the brother 3 times and seems super confused as to why his arrows are circling back at the tree behind him. I guess he really was that stupid to not know how his weapons worked.
I agree that confused me, it seemed to not understand why its ammo would not hit its target when the targeting system they track was aiming elsewhere. I didnt like that but if it only happened in the final scene I really wouldnt mind.
@GroxPL amengi is fan fiction. Not true canon
If you familiar with Decker Shado, he liked it after his first impression but then came around after actually thinking about it a bit.
I very much endorse actually thinking about things a bit!
"taking out a little wolf on the prairie is not the same thing as taking out a god damned sexual tyrannosaur"
is such a good line that it makes me appreciate this sht film for having spawned it
I was convinced that The Predator 2018 already had a Predator "Killer" at the end, this one confirms it by shooting itself in the head. I'm stumped by the franchise's suicidal attempt.
Well done review. You pointed out very good points others have not noticed.
Survival/Thriller would be the perfect genre for this particular iteration of The Predator franchise. It has everything it needs, except the script.
"We have no reason to suspect it wasn't the predator going around killing bison"
The musket ball sized hole in its head and the cigar on the ground were good reasons
@Druid of Scosglen Yes - good point.
@0volts Given these days some of the "audience" hollywood wants on board as consoomers, who is to say it ain't sexual.
I noticed the cigar but not the hole, but my initial thought was that the predator doesn't skin his victims and wouldn't kill so many if they didn't present a real challenge.
@The God you never knew Literally not overpowered. She was weak as fuck. The whole point was that she was physically weak and made up for it with intelligence.
It was important to the plot, or rather continuity I guess because that flintlock pistol was shown at the end of one of the older movies, and I guess they wanted to show where it had come from because one of the predators had awarded it to some survivor of a previous movie
Love these videos TLP. Keep up the great work.
I was also confused why the Predator went after random animals that happened to be predators, talk about being literal. Yes they hunt big game as it were, but Predators had a tendency to observe their targets before going after their prize, not just immediately pursue them. Why would it need to slay a snake? The only one that made sense was the bear, at least in terms of posing a moderate threat (also a callback to one of the comics where a Predator gets it arse kicked by a Mother bear) but I also like that the movie thinks these animals can all see something that's meant to be invisible, and attack the invisible threat, because that's how wild animals work and isn't absurd at all...
For me I saw it has him starting small and making his way up to the bigger animals that are hunters
Seriously if anything I said is inaccurate, please help me out someone lol
I literally agree with all of this, i don't know why some people were saying this was "BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL"..
The thing I hated most about the movie is the whole plot with the French trapper who was the owner of the gun from Predator 2. I really wanted him to have a bigger role and it looked like the girl and him would have had some sort of team up and then out of no where they kill him off. Fans have been wondering about that pistol for years and finally we get an answer of who carried it only for him to be stepped on and killed.
i had to watch multiple times when she pulls the 400 pound beast to quicksand with that thin rope. I couldn't believe how that thing just slid into the trap. It can't be that easy even for Arnold's standards.
@Get Wrecked This is my new head cannon. 😂 Predator just let her kill him cuz he was going through some stuff
@ThatSamoanGuy Him stepping on a bear trap in the first place is a whole other issue.
Seriously, how can a predator with **thermal** vision not see a trap made of mud and COLD water!?!
His vision should show him a GIANT cool spot on the ground.
For this scene my brain was convinced I missed something, like an accident coincidence like these modern scripts rely on to make events connect and save protagonists, but when I saw it for the 3rd time that she did it herself, I was genuinely baffled because that is beyond unrealistic even for a fantasy alien movie.
Can't show woman losing. The entire movie does this with her and the only time it doesn't is when she is cheap shotted so the plot can move forward.
Something that could have made that bit at the beginning work would have been if they showed the predator do something different or have something different about it, as it would have had the audience confused and have them more drawn in, questioning what else this predator was capable of
I actually really enjoyed the movie, just enjoy watching the Predator beat the snot out of people and anything else in its path, I love the franchise and definitely want more Predator films
4 minutes into this review. I’ve liked the video and I like this channel. Honestly I really liked “Prey”. Really excited to see how I feel at the end of this critique.
for the finale fight, i think shes supposed to have seen it like an advanced bow and arrow. where he looks, the red light follows, and the arrow follows the light. not different from how they use a bow, her brother shot a bird at the start of the movie. the predator probably thought the helmet was far enough away to not interfere with “manual” aim and fired it, not knowing the “aim” assist was activated. its probably the ONLY viable outcome where she lives because if it had used any other weapon or a few different scenarios and she wouldnt have been as lucky.
My experience with the movie left me researching the lore because I suddenly felt that somewhere before it was mentioned that a weaker predator had come to earth in an effort to prove itself, which would explain its childlike behavior in this movie.
@Dylan Cross Damn straight, also taken that Xenomorph without any fancy tech either, just a good old combi staff and wristblades.
Unblooded Predators wouldn't be allowed to hunt something as dangerous as a human. If it were a Blooded Predator, which it SHOULD have been, it's killed at least one Xenomorph
You forgot to emphasize on the "dog rescue" scene where she fights seven men (that are 80-90kg each) with very complex Wushu skills that learned just by throwing a tomahawk a few times.
Yes - Naru becomes a Mighty Morphin Power Ranger was pretty cringe.
@ThatSamoanGuy So being a hunter makes her a master martial artist on par with John Wick, but them also being hunters means they suck at fighting?
@ThatSamoanGuy It isn't plausible. Amanda Nunes wouldn't have been able to take on two of them. Perhaps not even one. And this girl is absolutely tiny, doesn't look trained, is a trash hunter (literally the catalyst for the story) and can't be a fighter because there were no people to fight. Plus, the Comanche weren't martial artists.
There's literally no explanation for it other than colored woman > White men because Hollywood despises white men. It's pure racism and sexism, and nothing else.
Thats the only scene i disliked in the movie it was completely unnecessary.
@ThatSamoanGuy hunting animals isn't nearly the same thing as hand to hand combat. Entirely different skills. Try again.
There’s no recapturing what made those movies great. Maverick is a stand alone movie as much as Aliens is. Just so sick of sick people trying to recreate magick that has long since left the building. Totally agree with you. Also: the deals that George and Steven made with the devil only scored them a top 5 to 10 movies success. These other producers/directors are lucky for a 1 hit wonder/.
I didn't like the movie at all, but after rewatching all the Predator movies, i must say that Prey is a step in the right direction for the franchise after Predators, The Predator and the AVPs movies.
I saw a bear hunt once. The hunter was on a hill about a half mile away. They baited the bear,shot it congrulated everyone around and praised the hunter. There was no hunt at all. He was the the predator, invisible, overpowered and safe
Considering how the alien doesn't even remotely look like a member of the predator species I'm pretty sure we can count this as not canon to the rest of the predator franchine
More than happy too ^^
It's really staggering how quick some people can turn around 180 degrees just because they get a piece of meat and not just bones every once in a while.
The Thunderbird is a cryptid legend shared for centuries amongst Native Americans, kind of similar to Queztcoatl to the Azteca
@John DeLye to be fair it is a tough one to remember how to spell.
@Tengen Uzui As Falcor the luck dragon. Well its true some depictions of me has something resembling a dog like snout. Its mostly meant to show my teeth or fangs and on closer inspection the image looks nothing like a dog. Its very clearly based on that of a constrictor or snake or other predatory snakes..
I have feathers due to my ability to fly and to better show off. My feathers and colors matches that of a actual living bird in the America's named after me called the Quetzal. These feathers can either be only around my head and neck area like a main or run all along my body. Typically the colors are Reds, Orange Reds, Yellows, Golds, Green, Emerald, occasionally some blues. Again like the bird. This also means I might also have had wings or flaps like the actual real flying snake that does indeed exist. (it just falls in style)
Asian Dragons are kinda effy. Depending on the breed, importance, strength or abilities. For the most part they are depicted usually in a serpent style body with scales occasionally with hair. the Face can be dog shaped or looks like a reptiles face and or that of a alligator. Always had legs and tended to have massive feeler hairs sticking out of the nose. They represent divine power, immortality, and strength despite the fact they themselves are fairly peaceful mostly. Despite looking terrifying half the time. Least when I close My mouth I look pretty chill instead of being terrifying.
Falcor is not a Asian Dragon although he clearly inherits many of the attributes of them. He is a luck dragon created by imagination and I would say he is more comparable to myself. Like me he is based on a living animal in this case a Dog with a elongated body of a reptile but retains many traits of a dog, appearance, ears, fur, paws. Tail. He is wise, polite, desires friends and companions, gives advice and has a sense of humor. After the general shock seeing him the first time you get over it pretty quickly given how nice he is.
Fun fact Falcor exist in the real world still at a museum and you can ride him.
Look at history maya fyi
@Quetzalcoatl the Feathered Serpent you're a little sure of yourself for someone that invented external testes.
I love thr nickname you gave to the main protagonist. I appreciate your views and criticism completely. You have definitely earned this new subscriber.
Note about Hawkeye: Kate and step-dad fencing at dinner is "showing" and her shooting at the bell, with payoff later, is also "showing" so, there are better examples of telling not showing. Believe you missed the bulls-eye on that one Lost Chord
This movie taught me that as long as I have all my limbs I can survive getting shot in the back of the head and survive. But as soon as I lose some limbs I'll die from getting shot in the front of the head
Prey was such a great concept and was let down very much by the writing of it. Amber Midthunder (acting was good all around, mostly) carried the movie and kept it interesting, huge credit to her. Even the humor was on point, but the writing quality was all over the place and common sense often got throw out the window for plot devices or no reason! It seemed to start off strong, then have no idea where it wanted to go by mid movie.
A benefit of having the predator picking off the strongest warriors off-screen is that it gives you a (imo at least) more practical rationale for strong female lead to move into the 'traditionally male' hunter role - the tribe needs bodies in the role to the point where it doesn't *matter* what gender they are.
"If it bleeds, we can milk the franchise to death!"
LOLLLLLL
As someone who hasn't seen any other Predator movies I really enjoyed it
The explanation they give for why the Predator comes out of cloaking in the original films is that it's hunting to challenge itself and it's considered dishonourable to do so while cloaked because it's too easy. So, when the Predator is killing all those animals and people while cloaked, it goes against established lore and the predators' culture.
The thing that bothered me about the laser sight, was that she never sees it, yet knows how it works.
It's never smoky enough to see a beam.
She sees the guy get shot, but she is standing behind him. (first guy).
She kneels next to a guy who gets shot at, and she saves him, knowing that darts are about to come his way. How?
Wouldn't she have reacted the same way the first guy did, by thinking they were a physical thing, like bugs?
When her brother knocks the helmet off, she (again) does not see the dots, only the helmet, and no beam, so how does she make the connection between the helmet and the darts going into the tree (that she can't see because they are hitting the opposite side of the tree that she is facing)?
Also setting the lement where she did, would imply she knew exactly where the predator would be when using THAT weapon.
The Predator knew it didn't have the face shield, so why would it fire the darts?
What if the predator used one of it's other many weapons at that moment?
RULE: Great to have characters conveniently fall into trouble,
but it is really bad writing to have them conveniently get out of trouble.
The moment I saw the first trailer for this movie, I was like "The predator is so screwed: NO PREDATOR HAS EVEN BEEN KILLED BY A FIREARM!! And I was right. Even a gunshot to the back of the head was just a flesh wound. The thing in the movie that has killed more predators is blades, aliens, and themselves. Guns do absolutely nothing to them. He was doomed before he got off the ship.
He’s giving both his film and the people responsible for subjecting the rest of us do it too much credit
When you've been fed manure for so long even a dry cracker appears to taste like ambrosia in comparison.
I think this is what's happened with Prey. It's not absolutely terrible, it's merely mediocre, and therefore viewers think it's amazing.
Has a 93 percent rating on RT, regardless a lot of people like it. And its funny seeing people say its "good for a Predator movie" given that the entire franchise has been pretty bad. Save for the 1st which even then is mainly action schlock.
@Lou H It was made non Canon cause of this movie the movieverse is treated as the prime universe mainly but the comics served to give stories which can be told in a small sitting and I doubt at the time anyway they wanted to make short miniseries based on them and it was treated as canon cause it didn't conflict with any films at that point in time it's just a nitpick but that comic book was a solid read I recommend you read it.
@BigSmiggles how could they retcon Adolini when the comic book story about how Greyback got that Adolini pistol wasn’t canon?
@el It agreed
I think it's good movie, not mediocre, not trash, not masterpiece, just a good enjoyable movie that doesn't make me feel like I wasted my time after watching it hence "the predator"
I agree with maybe keeping the Predator hidden more but it makes sense. This is a prequel, the Predator’s first visit on Earth. It worked it’s way up from animals to realizing humans are top prey. Its’ tech and skills are subpar to the one in Predator 1, maybe why its not as stealthy?
Her goal is to kill the beast on her own without anyone's help. that's why she/it kept turning her back on every one despite having clear shot each time the predator got distracted. The writer clearly had the ending figured out before anything else
Great analysis, I enjoyed the movie even though it had lots of problems and could have been so much better. I give it a generous 6/10, and the original predator 9/10.
When you said "...somehow thats the end of the film" I actually lol'd.
I feel like someone who’s never shot a gun and has absolutely no idea what recoil is would be able to accurately shoot something even if it’s right in front of her
19:00 the Predator related confusion: it didn't kill the field of Bison < that was the French trappers (later explained at 24:40) as for the snake remains: the Predator skins its Prey when it feels its not worthy as a trophie, we saw this in the 1987 original
It’s the fact the we know as a viewer that the predator was gonna to win anyway so what’s the point of showing us ?? Like huh who cares
@TOM Being deadass wrong isn't nit picking
@TOM Realized that when he mentioned killing random animals when in actuality it killed those animals because they themselves were predators going after prey
@TheMitsinga I was always under the impression that’s how he takes his trophies (if given the time). We do see him just straight up right out a spine and skull in part 2 but it looks like a skull, as in skinned and scalped. So I just assumed it was a rush job. Even in the first one it comes back to take is it Poncho or Hawkins body, one of the two so he can get his trophy. There’s a Predator video game for like 360, pretty good. And it was canon at the time. You could string up enemies hanging like in the movies and when you took your “trophy” the resulting corpse would be skinned. Any prey “not worthy” would most likely be ignored like the unarmed woman from the first one. Or Leona (because she’s pregnant) in the sequel.
To add a point here for a little correction 1: the bullet ricochet because the skull has a built in thermal armor in the skull and the predator in this movie is showing his tech that was use in this timeline before the other predator movies were made. 2: he's hunting because in his culture, he is finding the best hunt to prove to himself to his species so they are send off to find the best hunt and make them as trophies. 3: the predators tech is what they have made up too this timeline. Ps: love your videos and big fan keep them up please do not mind my comment it's just to let you know about the lore of they're species and explaining my point where there are the movies wrongs but again it was good because of what the lore about the predator species is about in the movie
Finally! Finally a DEFINITIVE review of this overrated schlock of a prequel. Yes I'm a hardcore Predator fan and I believed prey was really overrated AF and had one of the dumbest lamest predators in the franchise. I was ok with both Amber and her brother but there were seriously too many conveniently silly moments that happen just to make her triumphant for the sake of it! Thankfully a great review like this hits almost all the problems I had with this flick! He misses pointing out the fact that the Predator invisibility is inconsistent with the first in that it never glitches when it gets hit by water. And it's weird that this Predator's medikit is MORE advanced than the other films!! But other than that, this is a very solid review unlike all the others that overpraise and overrate this, makes me wonder if those people even know Predator at all, even if they claim to be so-called fans. The biggest laugh of the century are those that claim prey is superior to the original!! The only bit disagree with this review is him claiming this franchise should stay dead.
Yeah his was a spot on review but to say the franchise should die????? WTF!
Couldn't concur more Ser
Having the Predator be seen early was necessary, because we finally get to see him hunt something other than humans.
Let's not forget she was in it to establish herself as the chieftain. No remorse for her dead brother or 6-7 other hunters npc's that have fallen. And as a viewer, it's really easy to forget about them because they all didn't have any background story- so it was actually quite convenient. I mean, they didn't have to have a huge part of the film. Just tiny tidbits to let us know they are human too, with deeper motives. However, then the film maker would need to tell men's stories again- and you'll be outcast from whatever pot of money the 'woke' industry has.
It's also profoundly upsetting and lazy that both big threats died the exact same way in one movie.
When I heard that predator is back on track I was so happy. Little did I know that after watching the movie I would fell like I was scammed. The first half is alright, outside of the main character being a piece of wood
@Wind and Cloud Shadow Fr tho, big bro got shafted unjustly
I actually prefer the older brother to the main character least he was mostly level headed and a dang good hunter.
That was not a Predator movie. It was a movie about a woman's path to emancipation, it was about people following their dreams no matter what other people will say or do, it was about braking the rules and finally, it was a tribute to Comanche ethics, customs and culture. Oh, and a Predator happened to pass by with his spaceship and decided to take a leak on Earth or something...!
Thank you for this thorough and unflinching review. On the surface it seemed like they had the basic elements to make a decent film but I gave up on this film after 30 mins due to the poor plot and lack of characterization. Something that would have kept my attention would have been to have the natives speaking a native language, like in The Northman. I'm sure if anyone had that idea it was torpedoed by the studio because they think Americans are too lazy to read subtitles. And they're probably right.
The Northman was mostly English wasn't it? Is there another version? Or has my memory just gone to absolute shit?
This movie had a Comanche dub since its release.
Wait... if main character is slightly chilled, and is therefore invisible, how does Pred navigate anywhere!?!? Arnie was down on the ground, among tree branches and rocks and things. And, if you look back at that movie, you can see where Arnie is if you look close enough. Pred would just keep walking into cliff-faces, and very large rocks, if he couldn't see something because it's slightly chilled.