He felt like a young adult and seemed to mirror her coming of age warrior thing. I figured his small frame and lean body was cuz he was a teen like the main character. They are both trying to make their name as warriors. As a high school teacher he read like a teen.
Having checked out a few other reviews that were much more spoilery, this seems to be the general consensus. Given that the AVP ones were basically the Predator equivalent of 13 year olds, it could explain some of the things this one does and some of the mistakes he makes. Similarly, some have questioned things like the his loadout, since general lore is more well known to imply that some of these may be lower-tech than where the typical Pred should be. However... If this were a younger, less experienced hunter, he might also be trying to prove himself. Perhaps by using a more archaic setup in an attempt to be more macho, so that he'd gain more honor/standing for a successful hunt, or be seen as more brave if he did die.
@@vladyvhv9579 Yeah I think you nailed it on all points tbh. The low tech thing I kinda thought because this was centuries before the first Predator movie and AVP. Figured this was an early form of the tech we're all familiar with. And yeah he definitely gave the macho trying to prove himself vibe. In almost every engagement it's pretty obvious he underestimated his opponents. Definitely seemed way more cocky than all the other hunters.
@@RottenHereticI mean, did you see that scene in Peacemaker where the two kids were fighting in a dirt pit and then one got hit in the head the wrong way one time and died of a seizure? It’s kinda like that. If you can hit something the right way in the right place in the face, it’s quite surprisingly quite deadly. I ended up breaking a kid’s nose in middle school with a punch in the nose, and I had to learn later that if I had punched him in the nose the right way, I could’ve managed to push the cartilage in his nose into his brain and potentially have killed him, if not have given him serious brain damage. In short, one-punch killing something with a blow to the head is very plausible, and since Predator’s got super strength and is trained to fight, hunt, and kill, it knowing how to do that to something like a bear is plausible as well.
It was a difficult long drawn out fight in order for her to be able to beat the Predator because she had to use several things she learned throughout the conflict to design and setup her trap. I think she knew it wouldn't shoot at her if it's mask was near because the Predator knows all about how it works. So the only reason her plan worked was because she kept it's mask hidden from itself to the very last instant. Her trap had excellent setup and foreshadowing so I was just fine with it.
I don't know for sure if this predator is a super predator, I have heard that the director said that it's from a different clan on a specific part of Yautja Prime and that it's the first time on earth for this predator so it could be an un-blooded or young blood hunter.
It's a savage predator, or a sovereign predator. They wear almost no armor and have basically a different skull structure to normal yautja preds. I realized this at the end when he takes his mask off.
To me it also seemed like an older version of the predator. Like still really advanced but not as advanced as the OG. Which would make sense considering it takes place roughly 300 years prior.
If it's a first hunt on earth then yeah unblooded. Humans are soft meat trials, they have to do a human hunt before they can do their hard meat trial against a xeno and become blooded.
Yeah it was clearly a young one. It had like no sense of caution at all. Like shooting Red Hat guy with his arrow spears then pulling them out right in front of the group which of course got him shot. He made the mistakes a young one who fully believes he's invincible and nothing can touch them.
What I love about this movie is that it doesn't use the quotes from the first movie as a lazy excuse to say it or as a total joke. While the other predator films always used that chopper quote so much, this film uses a different quote from the first film and uses it in a better way -- 'If it bleeds, we can kill it'. That quote is the same but it's used in the same scenario, but it still feels fresh and new unlike the 'Get to the choppa' quote. I love that and I wish more movies would do something like that. As for the whole movie itself, I love it, but it's second best, in my opinion.
I think the big issue with making the final fight much longer like you were suggesting is that at some point it would break our suspension of disbelief. She would either have to avoid getting hit the entire time or be uninjured by an attack that should shatter her bones.
YES A Ancient Greek One (Predator vs Spartan) A Roman One (Predator vs Centurian) A Viking One (Predator vs Viking) A Medeval One (Predator vs Medeval Knight/Templar) A Samurai One (Predator vs Samura) A Pirate One (Predator vs Pirates/Buccaneers) A Wild West One (Coyboy vs Aliens but with predators lol) A WW2 one (Predator vs Nazis) Vietnam War A Cold War (Predator vs Soviets) A Futuristic One (Predator vs Space Marines) Other cool ideas Predator vs Zulu Warrior Predator vs Moari Warrior
I still can't believe they had her try to take down a deer... By throwing a Tomahawk. The likely hood of a death blow is like winning the lottery. All while, she had a bow and arrow! Female leads aren't the problem, weakly written ones are. Luckily this was mixed with good moments tho.
Yeah when she was hunting rabbits a was shouting..."USE THE BOW!" lol Maybe thats why she kiled the rabbits offscreen cause chancrs of her being able to kill something so small and fast with a tomahawk/axe...even with a rope attached is VERY low. I felt like I was watching scorpion from Mortal Kombat...could JUST imagine her shouting "Get Over Here!" In Camanche LOL
Yeah they REALLY went out there way to TRY n make it seem more realistic n believable than having her be a Total Mary Sue whos PERFECT at EVERYTHING! Im glad that shes NOT a typicult Strong Wahman. Shes like the opposite of Swarchanegger. Shes more Brain over Brawn Was an interesting concept. Having said that I STILL WISH they had done a more historically and comic n Lore accurate adaption.
@@RebornVengeancex A wouldny go that far. I mean she DOES have some good ideas like using the dog to herd the deer towards her, attaching the rope for quicker retrieval, and then using bait to loore the lion. She also quickly deduces the predators hunter code i.e. how it ONLY kills WORTHY prey whos a threat and learned how to use the Irange Flower to camouflage her. BUT shes also does a LOT of STUPID mistakes aswell like the whole axe thing instead of a bow or approaching the bear from upwind so it can smell her, when EVERY good hunter knows that you ALWAYS approach down wind Thus proving that brains and intelligence is NO MATCH for Experience n #StreetSmarts (or in this case ForrestSmarts lol)
I liked it as well. A few minor things that I didn’t care for: - the use of modern English. Not that they were speaking English, but their using modern slang terms. It took me out of the time period. - very trivial, but a real rabbit would have serpentined and not ran in a straight line.
@@GTBreezy the problem with dubs is that lip syncing takes people out of the movie( at least it does for me which is why i watch a movie in the language it was made). i do wish that they went with the plan to actually film the movie in comanche, but the studio didn't go for it
I want a predator movie in the Middle Ages with knights and swords ❤️🤘 loved this one, amazing kills, 4,5/5 for me ! I love it cause it’s also rewatchable , usually doesn’t happen lately with movies. I plan to watch it a third time tonight !
I say that before Predy got it's arm cut off they should have had it get a good hit on her and her "run away" only for it to go into Hunter mode for her to lead it into another trap that caused it to cut off his own arm. Maybe drop a rock on him and have it miss him but pin his arm. He then has to do it out of necessity now seeing her as a threat. The way it worked out was a little too convenient. It would also be a call back to the story she told her brother when they were bound at the tree.
This was easily one of the absolute worst Predator movies ever made. Just because it is better that The Predator 2019 and people like watching shit doesn't mean that I should watch shit as well.
@@LordMalice6d9 ok, that is certainly an opinion. I liked it. I'm not really worried about how others felt. If you don't enjoy it definitely don't watch it. That'd be dumb.
Dude I was surprised how entertained I was by Prey. Punching bears. It was a return to form for the franchise I think. I wasn't bored for a minute. They did the female lead thing well. You rooted for her rather than getting annoyed. I think she was well balanced. I do think the Predator was beaten a little too easily. But I loved it.
This native american girl should join the Avengers, as she was much stronger than dozens of men and more skilled than the greatest warrior of the tribe, and she managed to easily defeat a PREDATOR, which seemed to be the strongest of all other predators. Man, the predator easily killed and lifted a 500 kg bear, jumped from one tree to another with super speed, looking like the hulk, and a 60 kg teenager, humiliated the predator lol.
My theory for this predator is that this is it’s first hunt, it’s been sent out with basic gear for a starter hunt and the thing is taking on any aggressive animals it can find it get that worthy kill they all seem to be craving, even abandoning the more stealth aspects of the hunt to take on large groups in the open. Admittedly I have been influenced by dark horse comics where young blood predators did similar things to rise in the ranks by getting an honourable kill on a dangerous prey.
yup, cinematography and costume is great, premise amazing, nadus journey is awesome and I love the dog. the rest I felt was desperately mediocre. I hate cgi and most other aspects felt pretty underdeveloped. some good action scenes and some bad ones - I didn't love the new weapons. I'm still happy they made it and hope they do more, but I'd rather rewatch P2. I'd give it a 2.8/5.
Thank you for pointing out that suspension of disbelief of the heights a movie heroes skillet/ abilities cuts both ways for strength, fighting ability, and intelligence.
8:18 "There's no big war" Not in the movie but it was hinted: if you stay until the very end of the animated credits, you'll notice an extra scene that wasn't part of the movie: the arrival of a couple of predator ships being spotted by Naru's tribe.
For a hot second I just saw the thumbnail and was surprised because I didn't expect Weird Al to do movie reactions now. And then I realized it's good old Decker Shado!
To be fair, in the final fight at the point where the predator handicaps himself, he has already suffered major brain damage after being shot in the back of his head, and that could be a good explanation to why he seemed extra dumbed down in the final fight
The animated sequence in the end credits might explain how the predators get the flintlock. It shows the events of the film in Native American art and then after the shot of her bringing the head to the camp, it shows three predator ships showing up before cutting to the credits
They actually did have real animals in several establishing shots, i.e. the coyote chasing the rabbit. The rabbit was real in the initial shot, then when the coyote was chasing it it was CG, but the coyote was real. Which, for me, made it a lot more noticeable than the ones that were entirely CG, like the bear.
Actually this is the 5th Predator movie. 7th IF you include the AVP stuff. (Though going by the film they DEFFO are ignoring those films) Think you're either forgetting Predators or The Predator(though guess cant blame you for forgetting that one as The Predator SUCKED lol)
That was one of the corniest parts for me... I thought alot of the kills were cheesey though. The way it threw the bear trap. The catching the ax, flipping it around and killing a guy with it was dumb. The shield cutting the guys head off, the wrist gauntlet explodies, the net. None of it worked for me. Different tastes and preferences, I guess....
Absolutely! They took it seriously, didn’t shy away from the gory, violent nature of the story, and even managed to throw in a few curve balls and new ideas. Credit where credit is due.
The thing I don't like is how when 1 person says something about the movie everybody jumps on it without even having a real opinion they just follow the popular opinion cus if u watch this movie u would know it's not really that good it's definitely not better than predator 2 it's better than a lot of the other sequels but is not as phenomenal as some people are making it seem!
Im definitely in the minority here. I found it dull. And 2 years later can barely remember anything that happened in it. I’m thinking I should probably watch it again in case I missed whatever made it great for everyone else.
Personally I preferred the end fight short the fact that they showed the predator take out the grizzly in hand to paw combat would have made a longer fight more unbelievable and led to situations which could have taken us out the movie
I was torn on this movie. 1. I enjoyed the movie for what it was. If it were the only "Predator" movie I'd ever seen in my entire life, it would work well. 2. For me, the movie had several problems including "continuity" between the other movies in several places and even had several plotlines and conflicts that arise from nowhere and go nowhere. There were a few SECTIONS of film that could've been cut and we would've lost absolutely NOTHING. No, I don't mean "nothing of value". I mean "absolutely nothing". Because they cover redundant information we already knew (there are SEVERAL sections where characters repeat information they already told that character... to that character again... and then that character acts as if they're hearing it for the first time). It uh... it's a mess when you hold a critical eye to it in any capacity. 3. I had a very difficult time finding our protagonist to be "likeable". It does not help that her main weapon actually stretches the limits of "believable" just by virtue of its design and the physics it employs. Put simply, it acts more like a video game weapon than something out of reality. Which... makes me wonder if this was a video game pitch that turned into a movie. Anyway, our main character suffers this same issue. Demonstrating "hyper competence" at so many things... yet utterly failing at absolutely everything. She wobbles back and forth between "competent" and "useless" from scene to scene. I don't think the writers even knew what her purpose was. "She's a great tracker", utterly fails at tracking for most of the movie. "She's a decent hunter", utterly fails at hunting almost everything for most of the movie and only succeeding "off camera". "She's got this issue where she freezes up when it comes time to take life" but she's shown to have no problem taking life except when the plot demands she do so. "She's very clever at hunting", and makes really stupid and pointless mistakes near constantly, showing she has virtually no intelligence. Her character is a MESS and I found her "hard to like" as a result. It also doesn't help that she's "abrasive" for the sake of it... and her reasoning for things is... stupid. She is asked, "Why do you want to be a hunter?", which she ALREADY IS a hunter (we've already seen nearly half a dozen scenes of her hunting by the time the question is asked), and do you know what her answer is? "Because everyone says I can't hunt.". Infantile logic at its finest. Never expanded upon. Never goes anywhere. Oh, and then she spends the next hour of the movie displaying her utter lack of ability to hunt anything... including bunnies that are within 10 feet of her and not freaked out by her yelling and making tons of noise and flinging her weapon all over the place. 4. The ending felt very "anti-climactic". Felt forced. Not satisfying. The ending credits teased at a more interesting ending we didn't get to see. Which was too bad. I would've liked seeing THAT PORTION as the ending instead. So... I had fun with parts of this movie. I was engaged for most of it. It has problems with several points of it that made me roll my eyes and groan at the "bad writing" present all throughout. The movie was "fine" in my estimation. Not great. Not terrible. Passable. Worth watching once.
I always felt the trap at the end of the first Predator worked how Dutch planned. The spikes were a feint to get the predator under the dead drop. what else was suppose to happen?
I feel like you and I have the same positives and negatives of this movie. I give it an 8/10. Now to fill in some queries you had: 1. I watched the Comanche version because I am like that and I prefer subtitles due to having a hard time un-jumbling words. The French is written in French and I went back after the movie to translate all the scenes. 2. The end credits has the Comanche story-telling art and it recaps the whole movie while showing the predator ships emerging from the clouds at the end. It is implied that an exchange of technologies between tribes happened because Naru bested predator. That's how the predators got the gun 3. There is wonky CGI in the action scenes as well as the Scorpion Spear that Naru has. 4. My positives involve the gradual change of the forest as the action gets more intense. Some scenes are staged and filmed so beautifully, as if they were representations of painted works. The gore is fantastic. 5. My negatives include the French trappers acting like the 3 Stooges in an otherwise serious film. Way too much plot armor/convenience for Naru as there are atleast 4 moments where she will die in one second yet gets saved just before it happens. Finally, there is no weight to human deaths. Guy in the tree gets swiped right out of the tree yet nobody cares that he is gone and isn't even mentioned again. Now I am curious to know what you thought of Welcome to Raccoon City, to see where you stand on that.
I just can't wait for a predator to survive and be used in a sequel to that film where the predator survives again! But in a way that it all makes sense. I counted at least 11 or 12 different comic/graphic novel scenarios from the predator darkhorse serieses Combined To make this film
That will make the Predator be like Jon McClain from Die Hard if he survives. The reason why these Predators keep coming back to earth is because one of their own never return home making the human species a fun hunt for the Predators. And if they ever make an action movie with the Predator movie surviving to the end, it will have to be an other AvP storyline that isn’t set on earth and zero dialogue, just moan and groan and space language.
I loved this movie. I literally had no expectations for this and the only hope I had was for it to be better than the 2018 film but it proved me more than just that. This isn't just a better film than 2018 but it's also on par with the original Predator film. Prey was freaking fantastic and it's my personal favorite film of the year so far. It's not perfect but what movie is?
@@RebornVengeancex And still others actually shit on Predator 2 and stated this is a masterpiece. Hell, I've seen some people state it's even better than the original.
Eh it was good but had some stuff that prevented it from being amazing. I thought the historical/cultural accuracy was pretty cool. Being a fan of native american history it was cool to see. The acting was mostly good and I believe the Predator part of the film was handled well. Animalistic enough but still clearly a skilled and advanced hunter. I do feel like they fumbled one scene by making it seem a little dumber and less aware than it should have been. I feel like the coming of age side of the story was a bit too formulaic. Young and skilled character wants more than their parents/peers/society wants for them and they want to prove everyone wrong. They fail to do so until learning a lesson that lets them understand the importance of a social or familial structure while still growing into their new role that others now believe they can fill. Pretty formulaic and the film didn't fumble this, I believe, but they also didn't challenge the structure and that left it a bit basic. I am also glad they didn't make her a Mary Sue. I was worried at first because of how skilled they showed her to be early on. But she had her flaws and it was actually overcoming them that led to her growth and overcoming of the Predator. But overall I've been suggesting it to people I know who I think might like it. Oh wait, the ham fisted "If it bleeds we can kill it" line....... I almost forgot...... Worst movie ever -2.8/10 😂
Decker, you're just inviting even more Weird Al comparisons with that shirt. Thank you for your analysis though, I look forward to the official review!
Keep sharing, reviewing, and rating and talking about sequels so we can get more to this story and eventually work up to more deadly predators. Let’s go for the ride and see how they follow up. Good movie with Prey! Now let’s keep it going guys
You are being way to kind to this movie, the main character is the most annoying thing ever. She's jealous, foolish, and stubborn. The final shot when they hand her the leader stick and looks at a little girl was so cringe and full of the "message". This movie would have been so much better if the brother, who was the only good character in my eyes was the main focus.
@@fluffy4090@asideofsalt Since Decker announced the decision to go solo I think it was earlier this year, moving forward with content without Creepy and not having regular cohosts on Live And Wired.
the drawn by conflict and heat thing. is so interesting. and the gun thing confuses me because i dont see how the predator gets it back like you said and the mystery made it better back then.also bart the bear fought anthony hopkins and alec baldwin practically in the edge.
The final fight length worked for a couple reasons: 1. The woman didn't have the physical stamina to get into an extended fight with the Predator. The longer the fight goes on, the more the fight would probably work against her because of her lack of fighting experience. 2. The woman used the Predator's confidence against itself in the final fight. It had dismissed her before as a non-threat from her lack of weapons and stance. I think it approached her with the attitude that she wasn't very dangerous and he didn't go in 100% and she took advantage of her "trapped animal" trick.
@@michaelthomas5433 That seems fair of you. I have just found out that they squeeze in the line "If it bleeds...". I become more concerned over time with these call backs. Although, as long as it fits the story, Faerie Nuff. I will find out for myself soon enough. I like the concept of a Prequel.
@@tomsenior7405 call-backs like that can often feel very forced in other movie sequels( cough *terminator* cough), but in this they really didn't bother me at all because it really does feel like they fit. the "if it bleeds" line for example did sound like something that character would say in that scenario so it didn't feel forced and the fact that the gun wasn't just a call-back, but also played a role in the plot, but not an over-indulgent one, like it didn't deliver the killing shot, it was just one of the tools naru used in her fight
I like that Decker is doing reviews like this for new releases. I would prefer that spoiler and non-spoiler reviews be kept as separate videos, but I guess you can't win every time.
Did not like the end of the final fight, it reminded me alot of Rise of Skywalker with the sith dagger.. You have to stand at precisely this point for the trap to work, and if it had sunk in like 10 inches or so the trap would have failed. Also it seemed wierd that he would use the targeting system when he dont think his bio-mask is near, no matter where he's pointing the thing, as it is set up that would result in the shots never hitting her.. Unless she was standing in front of the mask. That said i did enjoy it quite a lot.
@@666FallenShadow Yea.. It's kinda like the dagger in The rise of Skywanker.. Unless you standing on X the angle will not be right, and in his case had he sunk 5-10" more into the mud before fireing it would not have done nothing.. It's a trap that really only works because the script said it had to.
Honestly when we are talking about a young native American girl vs a 7 ft tall yautja thats obviously way stronger then her I would think tactics like she pulled in the fight were honestly her best option That and the fact the yautja actually was kinda dumb giving her a full glimpse of how his i guess its a yautja crossbow work with the mask gave her an advantage which is why first thing she did was stealing his mask
@@decay79 you not wrong cause he tried using the crossbow without his mask at her dog and outright missed cause the moment he pulled it out the laser sight on his mask turned on if he knew how it worked he wouldn't had tried it without the mask on but he knew full well how the rest of his gear worked so i think he was on that hunt to give the yautja like crossbow its trial run
Man, it feels so good to watch a truly great Predator movie again. Probably a little more numbed after the last movie being the cinematic equivalent of a bad yeast infection, but I'm proud to see something Predator related to be gaining strong reviews again. Let's hope the same for Alien.
are you okay decker did you have too much coffee were you uncomfortable something didnt feel right and i dont think its becouse you couldnt spoil too much anyway i think it suckt predator didnt hunt and basically acted like he was in a bar fight the entire movie also personal opinion but even tho this predator is reckless do you really expect me to believe a 45 to 50 kilo inexperienced little girl can take down an experienced trained armed to the teeth 300 kilo killing machine
He hunted a snake, coyote and bear. He also stalked and killed both Natives and the trappers. Yes the final fight is ridiculous but i can look past it. I mean it took place like 2 or 3 days after the Predator wrestled a GRIZZLY Bear, got shot by both arrows and bullets, got a spear through the chest, chopped up by axes, and he took a point blank gunshot to the back of his head. They're tough but not invincible. Her being all acrobatic after stepping into a bear trap I cannot look past though. That's just pure Hollywood bs
@@squiggles684 first that was not a coyote that was a wolf wel first it was a wolfdog then when it started running it was a badly animated wolf second the snake maybe a few of the french guys yes but he yust brawled with the rest he didnt hunt them if that thing had fought with the guys from the 2010 movie it wouldve died about 10 seconds in it doesnt seem to use much strategy it seems to let people get hits in for no reason it doesnt use any traps it hardly ever uses more then its invisibility when it ambushes if at all and sometimes it seemed dumber then a brick that was not a predator to me it yust kinda sorta looked like it
@@alucarddgrayson0141 Okay a few things. 1. Is it a wolf? I could have sworn it was a coyote. If I'm wrong that's what I get for watching the movie after a few bowls. 2. Please start using periods if this conversation continues. A paragraph long sentence gets difficult to read past the wolfdog point. 3. You're comparing people using 21st century mag fed firearms versus 18th century black powder muskets. Of course they would have an advantage. 4. I agree with you on the Predator being stupid with the French. But it's reaction makes sense when you consider they caught it off guard and could have killed it when they had it pinned underneath the net. It was angry and wanted to eliminate all threats A.S.A.P. I could be a lot more nit pickey about that scene but I'd rather get back to my netflix backlog.
@@squiggles684 okay it was wolf also im sorry about the periods but english is like my 3rd language thats my excuse i simply put them in the wrong spots too often which makes me feel ashamed so i yust dont use them sorry 3rd the predators in that movie didnt have a disadvantage against those guns and its not like their tech and weapons were any better then what this predator is using the fucker yust isnt using his brain ive hunted pretty often myself in the past trust me this thing is brawling not hunting it would lose to any and every previeus predator weve seen when it comes to hunting it isnt a bad movie it yust isnt a predator movie
I always assumed that, in the original, Dutch didn't rework the trap on the fly, he had the deadfall waiting, thinking that there was a good chance that the outdoor would find the two on the one side and go around.
Predator 1 and 2 are two of my favorite movies of all time. Really liked Predators from Robby Rod. Liked AVP 1. THE Predator had funny moments but it was garbage. I did not like Prey. I agree it wasn't the super woman teaming with a Yautja against the evil white man that people thought it was gonna be but the protagonist was still pretty unlikable for me. Actually kind of insufferable. Also all of the male characters except for her brother were one note "get back to the kitchen" (one of them actually makes a joke to this effect) assholes. The entire movie was, from my point of view, a story about everyone telling a small woman she can't do something that is normally done by men and are constantly trying to "keep her down" and how despite all the asshole men telling her she can't and beating her up trying to stop her in the end they all die because they didn't heed her wisdom and she goes on to kill the Yautja. Everything without the Yautja in it was boring AF for me mainly because of how all of the other characters are portrayed. I mean it could have worked if they did it more like Aliens. Because in that movie the marines basically give Ripley the same shit albeit to a lesser degree. The situations Ripley is put in and the way she handles them are more realistic to what a woman of her size and skillset could actually do and the other characters slowly start to respect her. The scene between Ripley and Hicks was perfect. But in Prey, at first Naru is failing at her trial against the lion and all that and it was fine. But then when she gets to that trapper camp...omg...she takes them out by herself. Some of them hand to hand. That threw me out of the film. By that point I was already annoyed with her character because she was so arrogant and made stupid decisions. Some would say that is on purpose because "character growth" but no this is just sadly how Hollywood presents a "strong female character" these days. They have to be arrogant and if any man disagrees with their point of view they either ignore them or mock them. She does listen to her brother and that did balance it out a bit for me but again the one note portrayal of everyone else was just too stupid. After she solos the trappers she goes on to take out the Predator, which, again, was stupid AF. Her setting up traps and all that was fine but the moment that thing got a hold of her that should have been it. In the first Predator when the Yautja grabbed Dutch by the throat that was it. He only lived because it let him go because it wanted a hand to hand fight. The ending was even more stupid. It was presented as if it was supposed to be uplifting as she becomes warchief but I didn't see it that way. She walks in and throws the head at the feet of the tribal leader and flings the gun at him in such an asshole way. Like she was saying "you see you stupid motherfuckers I told you I could do this shit". The movie for me was more of a narcissists journey instead of a heroes journey. Got no desire to watch it again. This would have been better if the hunting party she was with slowly started warming to her. Maybe they could have realized "ok, she isn't going to stop" so they all give her pointers instead of just her brother being the non-asshole. Then, as a team, they all go to try and take the Yautja down and she winds up being the one who takes the killing shot. But no. Have to push that "strong woman don't need no man" message as hard as they can. I got no problem with people liking this but it is just not for me. I got no problem with women kicking ass in movies but not when the overarching messaging in the film is bashing every male character in it.
My wife loved it my four-year-old daughter loved it and my six-year-old son loved it up until the predator died and then he walked away crying and I had to comfort him and console him and tell him don't worry there's other Yatjua out there lol🤗i swear It was priceless
@@dushy35 My dad who fought in Vietnam showed me the movies Jaws, Predator, Aliens, Robocop, john carpenter's Thing, Terminator, The Blob remake and The Fly when I was 2 years old.
@@Prawnsacrifice by me talking to them. Wtf r you asking me? I asked my dad questions at a young age, my dad answered me truthfully and honestly no matter my age. So far my kids have honor, respect and imagination out of what they and i speak about. Plus, Why wouldn't I show my daughter a movie about a hulking monster that is wooped on and smashed(even tho i wanted the predator to win..)by a small warrior woman I want my daughter to feel strong and proud And know she's strong and smart.🤘😏
i found the main character to be unlikeable, she doesnt have much of a character. she is super smart, wants to hunt and prove she is capable of it but lacks experience... and has a doggy friend. she is stubborn, obsessed and selfish to the point of annoyance. and while yes people dont listen to her, she also doesnt listen to others, wich is very well shown when her brother kills the cat and comes back and wants to talk to her and says ''we did it'', as in she and him killed the cat, clearly about to tell her that she wounded the animal, but she is too obsessed with proving she is a capable hunter to listen. she might suspect there is something thats a danger to the tribe, but at this point the predator has not shown to be a threat to them, so her drive of wanting to hunt this mysterious thing down is just stubborness and obsession with proving herself to the point she doesnt realize her brother actually thinks she is a very talented hunter, but lacks the experience. this is clear when she follows them to hunt the lion and he lets her come along, if he didnt believe in her as a hunter he wouldnt have let her come, but she fails to pick up on this because she is too busy worrying about herself and not the people around her. stubborn, obsessed and selfish, those are her most prominent character traits, she is a modern day hollywood female lead straight out of the standard mold.
I really liked 3/4 of this movie. Probably has some the best kills in the franchise. Not sure about the ending. I didn't sit right with me. How she was able to take down 8 dudes with no issue and then home alone the predator without taking damage... I'd say a 7. Not as good as pred 1+2, but easily better than the rest of the franchise and spin offs.
Schwarzenegger couldn't fight it hand to hand or his elite force outgun it, Glover got lucky as the police and government agents died at it's hands. Even ALIENS need some serious numbers to take one down.....but natives with bows, Hold my skinned human and skull trophies, I got this. I doubt my own ancestors the Mayans could take one down lol
The ones hunting Arny and Glover were more experienced, with access to better equipment. Also, a lot of modern weapons are designed to kill humans. The stuff my ancestors used were made to bring down larger prey. Like bison and gators, and further back, mammoths. And to protect against things like bears and mountain lions. Also, some stone blade-making techniques for arrowheads, spearheads, knives, and other cutting tools will cause the stone being honed to break/chip in such a way that it causes a monomolecular edge. Not that they knew what that was, exactly. They just knew it was really sharp. And they didn't have any qualms about using designs that today would be deemed too cruel for use. Compared to life then, life now is too much of a cakewalk for many to really realize how badass our ancestors really were.
This movie was another trash butchering of the predator. A female indian with zero training, manages to take down half a dozen armed men with her "special moves". The predator was killing so many people that it was just a joke after a while. People getting massacred means nothing if there is no meaning or depth of character to the people that are dying. Even our female lead had no arc at all and was very bland. She wanted to be a hunter? ok so? boring. She actually managed to take down the predator without a scratch - her and her little dog. its just insane. I mean the "white invaders" immediately cage our female lead, and start multilating her brother. It's so cringe. Predator was scary because the best soldiers in the world with modern weapons, were brought down to a primal level. If you start on a primal level... where do you go? oh thats right, an orange plant that makes you invisible to the predator. That's it. I just need to keep telling myself that im going to be one of those people who say "sorry thats not really predator", same with pretty much every other franchise.
I did watch this with subtitles on and I was surprised the subtitles for French were actually in French. I enjoyed this film a lot and look forward to the direction it may take in a sequel.
I'm trying to figure out what you're trying to say about the final battle. It is a plan that ends up working, but you're framing it as if it's a negative thing. It's just a plan that worked. Naru had tried killing an elk at the beginning of the movie and it didn't work. She made a plan, a good one, to kill the mountain lion, and it only partially worked. She tried to kill the bear and her bow failed. But she took the lessons she learned from those failures and make sure her final plan worked. That's just character growth. I'd also disagree about this Predator being stupid. During the final fight, Naru uses her knowledge of the environment to her advantage. When it compromises itself early in the fight, it doesn't do that because it's stupid. It's not just some accident, Naru makes it happen purposefully. I'm unsure what you're really basing it being stupid, or it being a super predator, on.
100% agree with this comment. Naru is a survivalist, a tracker. They are quick thinkers and great strategists. She knows in a hand to hand fight she has no shot, so she forces the Predator to fight on her terms. The Predator in this movie I don’t think is a Super Predator. It’s a more primal, slightly less advanced form. This is not only demonstrated in their physical appearance, but also their arsenal, no Plasma Caster, but a bolt caster, and a less advanced Bio Mask. This is the first ever hunt on Earth, so of course it doesn’t show up when it’s super hot, it has no idea the overall weather of the planet. It doesn’t even consider hunting humans until it encounters Naru. And even then it’s more fascinated by her and doesn’t consider her a threat. But it’s Mary’s cunning and her resolve that wins the fight and thus draws the attention of the rest of the Predators.
I did enjoy Prey but my only big issue with it was.... *Spoiler* *Spoiler* How he fell for his own helmet tracking. I mean add with how it was revealed, it makes it seem like he knew his weapons, but kinda forgot a big feature of them. As if a hunter forgetting their weapon have a safety switch.
I saw it the first time on my phone the night it came out and loved it. I just came home from dinner and a movie with my family and I suggested Prey. They all like it a lot. Most not sci-fi fans either. Nothing fancy just a well done Predator movie. A very well done movie overall.
4 out of 5 for sure. I agree with you on every point. It could have been a non predator move and would have been a great non predator movie... In fact it kinda feels like it wasn't a predator movie and they took a screenplay and added the predator to it. The fight scene with her in the French camp was amazing! I wish more movies trusted their actors to do uncut action scenes. As an aside, my gf watches everything with subtitles on and when the French people were talking the subtitles were in French.
I liked it for the most part i just didnt like the feminist undertones and that she wad badically the native version of einstein. This could have been even bettet if they let the predator win
23:41 her trap at first actually didn’t work, the original trap idea was to have the predator, hopefully sink and drown inside the pit of very deep mud (idk if it was quicksand or not) But since the predator was too large for the pit trap to work, she used its mask and arrow shooter thing as a back up plan in case it didn’t die to the first trap
Meh movie. A couple of neat ideas involving the Predator and also the brother's short fight scene. The men taking 5 mins to reload was funny. I just didn't care about the main character. The dog was easily the best character. So no, it's not even better than Predator 2. I think I'm starting to appreciate Predators.
Yes. The Predator seems to be making some mistakes, but I credit that to the first move Naru makes against it. She delivers a devastating blow that really prevents the Predator from thinking clearly for the rest of the fight.
I really just want one Predator movie where The Predator wins for once.
I think a predator focused movie would be fun where they are just the silent protagonist
@@nikolastiscareno4963 I agree 👍🏿
They need to make a Predator movie with no human involvement and go full space/cosmic with subtitles.
@@androyus that's a horrible idea
When the predator wins nobodies left to tell the story. Nobody tells the story, We dont get the movie
Watching Decker review a predator movie is always a good time
He felt like a young adult and seemed to mirror her coming of age warrior thing. I figured his small frame and lean body was cuz he was a teen like the main character. They are both trying to make their name as warriors. As a high school teacher he read like a teen.
Having checked out a few other reviews that were much more spoilery, this seems to be the general consensus. Given that the AVP ones were basically the Predator equivalent of 13 year olds, it could explain some of the things this one does and some of the mistakes he makes. Similarly, some have questioned things like the his loadout, since general lore is more well known to imply that some of these may be lower-tech than where the typical Pred should be. However... If this were a younger, less experienced hunter, he might also be trying to prove himself. Perhaps by using a more archaic setup in an attempt to be more macho, so that he'd gain more honor/standing for a successful hunt, or be seen as more brave if he did die.
@@vladyvhv9579 Yeah I think you nailed it on all points tbh. The low tech thing I kinda thought because this was centuries before the first Predator movie and AVP. Figured this was an early form of the tech we're all familiar with. And yeah he definitely gave the macho trying to prove himself vibe. In almost every engagement it's pretty obvious he underestimated his opponents. Definitely seemed way more cocky than all the other hunters.
Well he still back-handed a bear into the dream world. That kinda made it seem silly to me that she won. But I guess that's just me.
@@RottenHereticI mean, did you see that scene in Peacemaker where the two kids were fighting in a dirt pit and then one got hit in the head the wrong way one time and died of a seizure? It’s kinda like that. If you can hit something the right way in the right place in the face, it’s quite surprisingly quite deadly. I ended up breaking a kid’s nose in middle school with a punch in the nose, and I had to learn later that if I had punched him in the nose the right way, I could’ve managed to push the cartilage in his nose into his brain and potentially have killed him, if not have given him serious brain damage.
In short, one-punch killing something with a blow to the head is very plausible, and since Predator’s got super strength and is trained to fight, hunt, and kill, it knowing how to do that to something like a bear is plausible as well.
Got to love Terra's timing just as Decker is about to say: "Movie monster" the cat starts meowing. 🐈⬛
If she would of accepted her role the warriors would all be alive lol. She was a bitch really lol.
It was a difficult long drawn out fight in order for her to be able to beat the Predator because she had to use several things she learned throughout the conflict to design and setup her trap. I think she knew it wouldn't shoot at her if it's mask was near because the Predator knows all about how it works. So the only reason her plan worked was because she kept it's mask hidden from itself to the very last instant. Her trap had excellent setup and foreshadowing so I was just fine with it.
I don't know for sure if this predator is a super predator, I have heard that the director said that it's from a different clan on a specific part of Yautja Prime and that it's the first time on earth for this predator so it could be an un-blooded or young blood hunter.
It's a savage predator, or a sovereign predator. They wear almost no armor and have basically a different skull structure to normal yautja preds. I realized this at the end when he takes his mask off.
To me it also seemed like an older version of the predator. Like still really advanced but not as advanced as the OG. Which would make sense considering it takes place roughly 300 years prior.
If it's a first hunt on earth then yeah unblooded. Humans are soft meat trials, they have to do a human hunt before they can do their hard meat trial against a xeno and become blooded.
unblooded makes sense to me considering how the brother dominated him in the one on one fight
Yeah it was clearly a young one. It had like no sense of caution at all. Like shooting Red Hat guy with his arrow spears then pulling them out right in front of the group which of course got him shot. He made the mistakes a young one who fully believes he's invincible and nothing can touch them.
What I love about this movie is that it doesn't use the quotes from the first movie as a lazy excuse to say it or as a total joke. While the other predator films always used that chopper quote so much, this film uses a different quote from the first film and uses it in a better way -- 'If it bleeds, we can kill it'. That quote is the same but it's used in the same scenario, but it still feels fresh and new unlike the 'Get to the choppa' quote. I love that and I wish more movies would do something like that. As for the whole movie itself, I love it, but it's second best, in my opinion.
I think the big issue with making the final fight much longer like you were suggesting is that at some point it would break our suspension of disbelief. She would either have to avoid getting hit the entire time or be uninjured by an attack that should shatter her bones.
I want a Predator movie for every historical era.
A samurai would be so cool…
@@Barry80Elms or one on their homeworld showing how they live
A David vs Goliath one and Goliath turned out to be a Predator!!!💪😀
@@Xert19 Only problem with that would be subtitles. Or a lot of voice work for Peter Cullen.
YES
A Ancient Greek One (Predator vs Spartan)
A Roman One (Predator vs Centurian)
A Viking One (Predator vs Viking)
A Medeval One (Predator vs Medeval Knight/Templar)
A Samurai One (Predator vs Samura)
A Pirate One (Predator vs Pirates/Buccaneers)
A Wild West One (Coyboy vs Aliens but with predators lol)
A WW2 one (Predator vs Nazis)
Vietnam War
A Cold War (Predator vs Soviets)
A Futuristic One (Predator vs Space Marines)
Other cool ideas
Predator vs Zulu Warrior
Predator vs Moari Warrior
I still can't believe they had her try to take down a deer... By throwing a Tomahawk. The likely hood of a death blow is like winning the lottery. All while, she had a bow and arrow! Female leads aren't the problem, weakly written ones are. Luckily this was mixed with good moments tho.
Yeah when she was hunting rabbits a was shouting..."USE THE BOW!" lol
Maybe thats why she kiled the rabbits offscreen cause chancrs of her being able to kill something so small and fast with a tomahawk/axe...even with a rope attached is VERY low.
I felt like I was watching scorpion from Mortal Kombat...could JUST imagine her shouting "Get Over Here!" In Camanche LOL
Yeah they REALLY went out there way to TRY n make it seem more realistic n believable than having her be a Total Mary Sue whos PERFECT at EVERYTHING! Im glad that shes NOT a typicult Strong Wahman.
Shes like the opposite of Swarchanegger. Shes more Brain over Brawn
Was an interesting concept.
Having said that I STILL WISH they had done a more historically and comic n Lore accurate adaption.
@@BIGDaddioJohnB lmao. Right, plus... An Axe would DAMAGE the FUR haha which was a big deal for them. Since they used every bit of the animal.
@@BIGDaddioJohnB yeah shes smarter Than a beaver...
@@RebornVengeancex A wouldny go that far. I mean she DOES have some good ideas like using the dog to herd the deer towards her,
attaching the rope for quicker retrieval, and then using bait to loore the lion.
She also quickly deduces the predators hunter code i.e. how it ONLY kills WORTHY prey whos a threat and learned how to use the Irange Flower to camouflage her.
BUT shes also does a LOT of STUPID mistakes aswell like the whole axe thing instead of a bow or approaching the bear from upwind so it can smell her, when EVERY good hunter knows that you ALWAYS approach down wind
Thus proving that brains and intelligence is NO MATCH for Experience n #StreetSmarts (or in this case ForrestSmarts lol)
Well he isn’t in his car so that’s a good sign for this movie 😆
Oh, I remember that review. Best rant from someone I have ever seen. I'm probably gonna watch it again.
Why would he be in his car? Its straight to streaming
I remember watching that video and just dying 🤣😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I liked it as well. A few minor things that I didn’t care for:
- the use of modern English. Not that they were speaking English, but their using modern slang terms. It took me out of the time period.
- very trivial, but a real rabbit would have serpentined and not ran in a straight line.
Watch the movie again but in the Comanche version with no subtitles
You should've watched the Comanche Dub version that option was easily seen there.
@@GTBreezy the problem with dubs is that lip syncing takes people out of the movie( at least it does for me which is why i watch a movie in the language it was made). i do wish that they went with the plan to actually film the movie in comanche, but the studio didn't go for it
What type of modern slang did they use? I really didn't notice any.
I want a predator movie in the Middle Ages with knights and swords ❤️🤘
loved this one, amazing kills, 4,5/5 for me !
I love it cause it’s also rewatchable , usually doesn’t happen lately with movies. I plan to watch it a third time tonight !
There is (was?) a fan film set during that time. It's really good all things considered.
@@ptonpc yeah I just discovered it, pretty good actually.
I say that before Predy got it's arm cut off they should have had it get a good hit on her and her "run away" only for it to go into Hunter mode for her to lead it into another trap that caused it to cut off his own arm. Maybe drop a rock on him and have it miss him but pin his arm. He then has to do it out of necessity now seeing her as a threat. The way it worked out was a little too convenient. It would also be a call back to the story she told her brother when they were bound at the tree.
This was easily one of the absolute worst Predator movies ever made. Just because it is better that The Predator 2019 and people like watching shit doesn't mean that I should watch shit as well.
@@LordMalice6d9 ok, that is certainly an opinion. I liked it. I'm not really worried about how others felt. If you don't enjoy it definitely don't watch it. That'd be dumb.
@@LordMalice6d9 hmm but why is it bad?
@@LordMalice6d9 What makes it dogshit? It's a pretty good movie imo.
Dude I was surprised how entertained I was by Prey. Punching bears. It was a return to form for the franchise I think. I wasn't bored for a minute. They did the female lead thing well. You rooted for her rather than getting annoyed. I think she was well balanced. I do think the Predator was beaten a little too easily. But I loved it.
This native american girl should join the Avengers, as she was much stronger than dozens of men and more skilled than the greatest warrior of the tribe, and she managed to easily defeat a PREDATOR, which seemed to be the strongest of all other predators. Man, the predator easily killed and lifted a 500 kg bear, jumped from one tree to another with super speed, looking like the hulk, and a 60 kg teenager, humiliated the predator lol.
your description of the final battle really shows how much you love movies
Honestly, after hearing about The Predator, this is certainly a breath of fresh air! I like this movie, easily one of the better sequels!
How delusional
Feral Predator's long locks were almost as good as Decker's amazing hair! 🤣
You'd think a space monster would know his spear gun works via mask lock on only.
My theory for this predator is that this is it’s first hunt, it’s been sent out with basic gear for a starter hunt and the thing is taking on any aggressive animals it can find it get that worthy kill they all seem to be craving, even abandoning the more stealth aspects of the hunt to take on large groups in the open. Admittedly I have been influenced by dark horse comics where young blood predators did similar things to rise in the ranks by getting an honourable kill on a dangerous prey.
Finally we got a Predator movie with Native Americans in it and they’re played by real Natives. My people are in a Predator movie. I love it!
It was a well-made film with absolutely beautiful cinematography. I liked it a lot. Not as much as no1 or no2, but way better than all the other ones.
Yes, the cinematography was excellent!
Let's be honest tho, it isn't hard being better than those other sequels, but i did liked It fine
yup, cinematography and costume is great, premise amazing, nadus journey is awesome and I love the dog. the rest I felt was desperately mediocre. I hate cgi and most other aspects felt pretty underdeveloped. some good action scenes and some bad ones - I didn't love the new weapons. I'm still happy they made it and hope they do more, but I'd rather rewatch P2. I'd give it a 2.8/5.
@@KnucklesxReala911 it's really not hard to be better than predator 2.
Thank you for pointing out that suspension of disbelief of the heights a movie heroes skillet/ abilities cuts both ways for strength, fighting ability, and intelligence.
8:18 "There's no big war"
Not in the movie but it was hinted: if you stay until the very end of the animated credits, you'll notice an extra scene that wasn't part of the movie: the arrival of a couple of predator ships being spotted by Naru's tribe.
For a hot second I just saw the thumbnail and was surprised because I didn't expect Weird Al to do movie reactions now.
And then I realized it's good old Decker Shado!
To be fair, in the final fight at the point where the predator handicaps himself, he has already suffered major brain damage after being shot in the back of his head, and that could be a good explanation to why he seemed extra dumbed down in the final fight
The animated sequence in the end credits might explain how the predators get the flintlock. It shows the events of the film in Native American art and then after the shot of her bringing the head to the camp, it shows three predator ships showing up before cutting to the credits
They actually did have real animals in several establishing shots, i.e. the coyote chasing the rabbit. The rabbit was real in the initial shot, then when the coyote was chasing it it was CG, but the coyote was real. Which, for me, made it a lot more noticeable than the ones that were entirely CG, like the bear.
Prey is a worthy Predator 4. A nice, small, uncomplicated hunter story.
Actually this is the 5th Predator movie.
7th IF you include the AVP stuff.
(Though going by the film they DEFFO are ignoring those films)
Think you're either forgetting Predators or The Predator(though guess cant blame you for forgetting that one as The Predator SUCKED lol)
we dont count THE Predator...I totally agree.
THE Predator isnt Canon...it was all a dream in Shane Black's head just before Jungle Predator killed him
Watching a predator fight a grizzly bear was so fucking cool.
That was one of the corniest parts for me... I thought alot of the kills were cheesey though. The way it threw the bear trap. The catching the ax, flipping it around and killing a guy with it was dumb. The shield cutting the guys head off, the wrist gauntlet explodies, the net. None of it worked for me. Different tastes and preferences, I guess....
This is definitely one a better movies in the predator franchise and thank you for taking your time and reviewing it ❤️
@@darthkai8242 awesome 👍
Absolutely! They took it seriously, didn’t shy away from the gory, violent nature of the story, and even managed to throw in a few curve balls and new ideas. Credit where credit is due.
@@DarthMacchio 👍👍
The thing I don't like is how when 1 person says something about the movie everybody jumps on it without even having a real opinion they just follow the popular opinion cus if u watch this movie u would know it's not really that good it's definitely not better than predator 2 it's better than a lot of the other sequels but is not as phenomenal as some people are making it seem!
My opinion I thought it was amazing
Im definitely in the minority here. I found it dull. And 2 years later can barely remember anything that happened in it. I’m thinking I should probably watch it again in case I missed whatever made it great for everyone else.
Personally I preferred the end fight short the fact that they showed the predator take out the grizzly in hand to paw combat would have made a longer fight more unbelievable and led to situations which could have taken us out the movie
I really enjoyed this film. Seems like the franchise could be back on track. We need adaptations of the darkhorse lore.
I really hope they continue going on the high streak and this wasn't a one time thing
@@aidenmb7932 Keep the same director PLEASE!😫 Just adapt the darkhorse books and it'll be a hit. Broken Tusk is an awesome character.
Director said he has ideas for another one I'm assuming it will be another period piece movie.
@@CyborgSodaCollects idk man .... They screwed up the lore in this one. I doubt they will do a good job with more stories.
@@danelynch7171 It's a movie, not a direct translation to the source material. MCU has been doing this for years.
Leprechaun vs predator!
I was torn on this movie.
1. I enjoyed the movie for what it was. If it were the only "Predator" movie I'd ever seen in my entire life, it would work well.
2. For me, the movie had several problems including "continuity" between the other movies in several places and even had several plotlines and conflicts that arise from nowhere and go nowhere. There were a few SECTIONS of film that could've been cut and we would've lost absolutely NOTHING. No, I don't mean "nothing of value". I mean "absolutely nothing". Because they cover redundant information we already knew (there are SEVERAL sections where characters repeat information they already told that character... to that character again... and then that character acts as if they're hearing it for the first time). It uh... it's a mess when you hold a critical eye to it in any capacity.
3. I had a very difficult time finding our protagonist to be "likeable". It does not help that her main weapon actually stretches the limits of "believable" just by virtue of its design and the physics it employs. Put simply, it acts more like a video game weapon than something out of reality. Which... makes me wonder if this was a video game pitch that turned into a movie. Anyway, our main character suffers this same issue. Demonstrating "hyper competence" at so many things... yet utterly failing at absolutely everything. She wobbles back and forth between "competent" and "useless" from scene to scene. I don't think the writers even knew what her purpose was. "She's a great tracker", utterly fails at tracking for most of the movie. "She's a decent hunter", utterly fails at hunting almost everything for most of the movie and only succeeding "off camera". "She's got this issue where she freezes up when it comes time to take life" but she's shown to have no problem taking life except when the plot demands she do so. "She's very clever at hunting", and makes really stupid and pointless mistakes near constantly, showing she has virtually no intelligence. Her character is a MESS and I found her "hard to like" as a result. It also doesn't help that she's "abrasive" for the sake of it... and her reasoning for things is... stupid. She is asked, "Why do you want to be a hunter?", which she ALREADY IS a hunter (we've already seen nearly half a dozen scenes of her hunting by the time the question is asked), and do you know what her answer is? "Because everyone says I can't hunt.". Infantile logic at its finest. Never expanded upon. Never goes anywhere. Oh, and then she spends the next hour of the movie displaying her utter lack of ability to hunt anything... including bunnies that are within 10 feet of her and not freaked out by her yelling and making tons of noise and flinging her weapon all over the place.
4. The ending felt very "anti-climactic". Felt forced. Not satisfying. The ending credits teased at a more interesting ending we didn't get to see. Which was too bad. I would've liked seeing THAT PORTION as the ending instead.
So... I had fun with parts of this movie. I was engaged for most of it. It has problems with several points of it that made me roll my eyes and groan at the "bad writing" present all throughout. The movie was "fine" in my estimation. Not great. Not terrible. Passable. Worth watching once.
If you want to know how good it is, Compare this to the reaction to when Decker watched The Predator 🤣
I always felt the trap at the end of the first Predator worked how Dutch planned. The spikes were a feint to get the predator under the dead drop. what else was suppose to happen?
I'm so glad it has the Decker seal of approval.
I feel like you and I have the same positives and negatives of this movie. I give it an 8/10.
Now to fill in some queries you had:
1. I watched the Comanche version because I am like that and I prefer subtitles due to having a hard time un-jumbling words. The French is written in French and I went back after the movie to translate all the scenes.
2. The end credits has the Comanche story-telling art and it recaps the whole movie while showing the predator ships emerging from the clouds at the end. It is implied that an exchange of technologies between tribes happened because Naru bested predator. That's how the predators got the gun
3. There is wonky CGI in the action scenes as well as the Scorpion Spear that Naru has.
4. My positives involve the gradual change of the forest as the action gets more intense. Some scenes are staged and filmed so beautifully, as if they were representations of painted works. The gore is fantastic.
5. My negatives include the French trappers acting like the 3 Stooges in an otherwise serious film. Way too much plot armor/convenience for Naru as there are atleast 4 moments where she will die in one second yet gets saved just before it happens. Finally, there is no weight to human deaths. Guy in the tree gets swiped right out of the tree yet nobody cares that he is gone and isn't even mentioned again.
Now I am curious to know what you thought of Welcome to Raccoon City, to see where you stand on that.
My felling about what you said for one point: "you're bound... You're not interesting anymore. But the one who catch you makes a better prey, then."
Coming off of The Predator, this was phenomenal!
if you say so
@@RebornVengeancex I obviously do say so 😄🥴
@@Elatenl I knew this movie was going to be good, just not THIS good
Airbud Vs The Mighty Ducks would be a better movie than The Predator.
@@timtheskeptic1147 do not give them any ideas
You interacting with your links was great. Thanks for brightening my morning.
I just can't wait for a predator to survive and be used in a sequel to that film where the predator survives again! But in a way that it all makes sense.
I counted at least 11 or 12 different comic/graphic novel scenarios from the predator darkhorse serieses Combined To make this film
That will make the Predator be like Jon McClain from Die Hard if he survives. The reason why these Predators keep coming back to earth is because one of their own never return home making the human species a fun hunt for the Predators. And if they ever make an action movie with the Predator movie surviving to the end, it will have to be an other AvP storyline that isn’t set on earth and zero dialogue, just moan and groan and space language.
Glad to see you did a video on this one and looking forward to the full proper review/dissection!
I’m looking forward to seeing a full review of this when you make it.
Take a drink everytime Decker messes with his hair.
I loved this movie. I literally had no expectations for this and the only hope I had was for it to be better than the 2018 film but it proved me more than just that. This isn't just a better film than 2018 but it's also on par with the original Predator film. Prey was freaking fantastic and it's my personal favorite film of the year so far. It's not perfect but what movie is?
Good to know, thank god they did continue the shane black approach...
Just watched it and holy smokes did I love every second. Completely blew my expectations out of the water
I honestly don't understand why people think this movie is good it's like they didn't watch the movie
@@RebornVengeancex And still others actually shit on Predator 2 and stated this is a masterpiece.
Hell, I've seen some people state it's even better than the original.
@@kaijuking3216 cant belive it
Eh it was good but had some stuff that prevented it from being amazing. I thought the historical/cultural accuracy was pretty cool. Being a fan of native american history it was cool to see. The acting was mostly good and I believe the Predator part of the film was handled well. Animalistic enough but still clearly a skilled and advanced hunter. I do feel like they fumbled one scene by making it seem a little dumber and less aware than it should have been. I feel like the coming of age side of the story was a bit too formulaic. Young and skilled character wants more than their parents/peers/society wants for them and they want to prove everyone wrong. They fail to do so until learning a lesson that lets them understand the importance of a social or familial structure while still growing into their new role that others now believe they can fill. Pretty formulaic and the film didn't fumble this, I believe, but they also didn't challenge the structure and that left it a bit basic. I am also glad they didn't make her a Mary Sue. I was worried at first because of how skilled they showed her to be early on. But she had her flaws and it was actually overcoming them that led to her growth and overcoming of the Predator. But overall I've been suggesting it to people I know who I think might like it.
Oh wait, the ham fisted "If it bleeds we can kill it" line....... I almost forgot...... Worst movie ever
-2.8/10
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This "movie" sucks big time.
Decker, you're just inviting even more Weird Al comparisons with that shirt.
Thank you for your analysis though, I look forward to the official review!
This was a good movie. Glad to see the franchise get back on track after the trainwreck that was "The Predator"
I enjoy the circular reflections on Decker's glasses. 🙂
The bar has become so low, lol
Keep sharing, reviewing, and rating and talking about sequels so we can get more to this story and eventually work up to more deadly predators. Let’s go for the ride and see how they follow up. Good movie with Prey! Now let’s keep it going guys
Comanche were so progressive. Who knew?🤔
When I realised that the gun from Predator 2 was in this, I was praying that this Predator was the Accent Predator from part 2.
You are being way to kind to this movie, the main character is the most annoying thing ever. She's jealous, foolish, and stubborn. The final shot when they hand her the leader stick and looks at a little girl was so cringe and full of the "message". This movie would have been so much better if the brother, who was the only good character in my eyes was the main focus.
Happy to get your input on this decker. I loved this movie.
Just a mild observation Decker, your confidence level has gone way up since you’ve been on your own. Kudos.
What do you mean he's on his own haven't watched the channel in awhile I'm catching up
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@@fluffy4090@asideofsalt Since Decker announced the decision to go solo I think it was earlier this year, moving forward with content without Creepy and not having regular cohosts on Live And Wired.
@@docsnake oh
the drawn by conflict and heat thing. is so interesting. and the gun thing confuses me because i dont see how the predator gets it back like you said and the mystery made it better back then.also bart the bear fought anthony hopkins and alec baldwin practically in the edge.
This movie sounds awesome definitely gonna check it out
The final fight length worked for a couple reasons:
1. The woman didn't have the physical stamina to get into an extended fight with the Predator. The longer the fight goes on, the more the fight would probably work against her because of her lack of fighting experience.
2. The woman used the Predator's confidence against itself in the final fight. It had dismissed her before as a non-threat from her lack of weapons and stance. I think it approached her with the attitude that she wasn't very dangerous and he didn't go in 100% and she took advantage of her "trapped animal" trick.
Please tell me that she doesn't see a Tomahawk and shout "Get to the Chopper". That alone will elevate the Film above most others.
She basically says "I'M HERE! KILL ME!" When trying to lead it into her final trap. I gave it a pass for that.
@@michaelthomas5433 That seems fair of you. I have just found out that they squeeze in the line "If it bleeds...". I become more concerned over time with these call backs. Although, as long as it fits the story, Faerie Nuff. I will find out for myself soon enough. I like the concept of a Prequel.
@@tomsenior7405 call-backs like that can often feel very forced in other movie sequels( cough *terminator* cough), but in this they really didn't bother me at all because it really does feel like they fit. the "if it bleeds" line for example did sound like something that character would say in that scenario so it didn't feel forced and the fact that the gun wasn't just a call-back, but also played a role in the plot, but not an over-indulgent one, like it didn't deliver the killing shot, it was just one of the tools naru used in her fight
@@666FallenShadow Beautifully stated. Thank you for that.
I like that Decker is doing reviews like this for new releases. I would prefer that spoiler and non-spoiler reviews be kept as separate videos, but I guess you can't win every time.
The movie had potential. But it had some serious things that needed to be tweaked to make it good.
Mr shado gotta say I love seeing all your reviews, always brings me joy.
Did not like the end of the final fight, it reminded me alot of Rise of Skywalker with the sith dagger.. You have to stand at precisely this point for the trap to work, and if it had sunk in like 10 inches or so the trap would have failed. Also it seemed wierd that he would use the targeting system when he dont think his bio-mask is near, no matter where he's pointing the thing, as it is set up that would result in the shots never hitting her.. Unless she was standing in front of the mask.
That said i did enjoy it quite a lot.
tbf she did lead him to that location and it was set-up previously by her falling in the bog as well
@@666FallenShadow Yea.. It's kinda like the dagger in The rise of Skywanker.. Unless you standing on X the angle will not be right, and in his case had he sunk 5-10" more into the mud before fireing it would not have done nothing.. It's a trap that really only works because the script said it had to.
Honestly when we are talking about a young native American girl vs a 7 ft tall yautja thats obviously way stronger then her
I would think tactics like she pulled in the fight were honestly her best option
That and the fact the yautja actually was kinda dumb giving her a full glimpse of how his i guess its a yautja crossbow work with the mask gave her an advantage
which is why first thing she did was stealing his mask
@@Darkwarp1994 Yep, but one would also think the Yautja knew how it's gear works..
@@decay79 you not wrong cause he tried using the crossbow without his mask at her dog and outright missed cause the moment he pulled it out the laser sight on his mask turned on if he knew how it worked he wouldn't had tried it without the mask on but he knew full well how the rest of his gear worked so i think he was on that hunt to give the yautja like crossbow its trial run
I liked how they still made the Predator a suit rather than CGI.
Man, it feels so good to watch a truly great Predator movie again. Probably a little more numbed after the last movie being the cinematic equivalent of a bad yeast infection, but I'm proud to see something Predator related to be gaining strong reviews again. Let's hope the same for Alien.
We need a another good alien movie again and if we're lucky, maaaybe an actually good AvP movie
@@aidenmb7932 Yes. We need another AvP done right this time!!!
A bunch of guys with flintlocks: "Yeah, we're gonna kill this thing!"
Predator: "You serious?"
are you okay decker did you have too much coffee were you uncomfortable something didnt feel right and i dont think its becouse you couldnt spoil too much anyway i think it suckt predator didnt hunt and basically acted like he was in a bar fight the entire movie also personal opinion but even tho this predator is reckless do you really expect me to believe a 45 to 50 kilo inexperienced little girl can take down an experienced trained armed to the teeth 300 kilo killing machine
He hunted a snake, coyote and bear. He also stalked and killed both Natives and the trappers. Yes the final fight is ridiculous but i can look past it.
I mean it took place like 2 or 3 days after the Predator wrestled a GRIZZLY Bear, got shot by both arrows and bullets, got a spear through the chest, chopped up by axes, and he took a point blank gunshot to the back of his head. They're tough but not invincible.
Her being all acrobatic after stepping into a bear trap I cannot look past though. That's just pure Hollywood bs
@@squiggles684 first that was not a coyote that was a wolf wel first it was a wolfdog then when it started running it was a badly animated wolf second the snake maybe a few of the french guys yes but he yust brawled with the rest he didnt hunt them if that thing had fought with the guys from the 2010 movie it wouldve died about 10 seconds in it doesnt seem to use much strategy it seems to let people get hits in for no reason it doesnt use any traps it hardly ever uses more then its invisibility when it ambushes if at all and sometimes it seemed dumber then a brick that was not a predator to me it yust kinda sorta looked like it
@@alucarddgrayson0141 Okay a few things.
1. Is it a wolf? I could have sworn it was a coyote. If I'm wrong that's what I get for watching the movie after a few bowls.
2. Please start using periods if this conversation continues. A paragraph long sentence gets difficult to read past the wolfdog point.
3. You're comparing people using 21st century mag fed firearms versus 18th century black powder muskets. Of course they would have an advantage.
4. I agree with you on the Predator being stupid with the French. But it's reaction makes sense when you consider they caught it off guard and could have killed it when they had it pinned underneath the net. It was angry and wanted to eliminate all threats A.S.A.P. I could be a lot more nit pickey about that scene but I'd rather get back to my netflix backlog.
@@squiggles684 okay it was wolf also im sorry about the periods but english is like my 3rd language thats my excuse i simply put them in the wrong spots too often which makes me feel ashamed so i yust dont use them sorry 3rd the predators in that movie didnt have a disadvantage against those guns and its not like their tech and weapons were any better then what this predator is using the fucker yust isnt using his brain ive hunted pretty often myself in the past trust me this thing is brawling not hunting it would lose to any and every previeus predator weve seen when it comes to hunting it isnt a bad movie it yust isnt a predator movie
I always assumed that, in the original, Dutch didn't rework the trap on the fly, he had the deadfall waiting, thinking that there was a good chance that the outdoor would find the two on the one side and go around.
Predator 1 and 2 are two of my favorite movies of all time. Really liked Predators from Robby Rod. Liked AVP 1. THE Predator had funny moments but it was garbage.
I did not like Prey. I agree it wasn't the super woman teaming with a Yautja against the evil white man that people thought it was gonna be but the protagonist was still pretty unlikable for me. Actually kind of insufferable. Also all of the male characters except for her brother were one note "get back to the kitchen" (one of them actually makes a joke to this effect) assholes. The entire movie was, from my point of view, a story about everyone telling a small woman she can't do something that is normally done by men and are constantly trying to "keep her down" and how despite all the asshole men telling her she can't and beating her up trying to stop her in the end they all die because they didn't heed her wisdom and she goes on to kill the Yautja.
Everything without the Yautja in it was boring AF for me mainly because of how all of the other characters are portrayed. I mean it could have worked if they did it more like Aliens. Because in that movie the marines basically give Ripley the same shit albeit to a lesser degree. The situations Ripley is put in and the way she handles them are more realistic to what a woman of her size and skillset could actually do and the other characters slowly start to respect her. The scene between Ripley and Hicks was perfect.
But in Prey, at first Naru is failing at her trial against the lion and all that and it was fine. But then when she gets to that trapper camp...omg...she takes them out by herself. Some of them hand to hand. That threw me out of the film. By that point I was already annoyed with her character because she was so arrogant and made stupid decisions. Some would say that is on purpose because "character growth" but no this is just sadly how Hollywood presents a "strong female character" these days. They have to be arrogant and if any man disagrees with their point of view they either ignore them or mock them. She does listen to her brother and that did balance it out a bit for me but again the one note portrayal of everyone else was just too stupid. After she solos the trappers she goes on to take out the Predator, which, again, was stupid AF. Her setting up traps and all that was fine but the moment that thing got a hold of her that should have been it. In the first Predator when the Yautja grabbed Dutch by the throat that was it. He only lived because it let him go because it wanted a hand to hand fight.
The ending was even more stupid. It was presented as if it was supposed to be uplifting as she becomes warchief but I didn't see it that way. She walks in and throws the head at the feet of the tribal leader and flings the gun at him in such an asshole way. Like she was saying "you see you stupid motherfuckers I told you I could do this shit". The movie for me was more of a narcissists journey instead of a heroes journey. Got no desire to watch it again.
This would have been better if the hunting party she was with slowly started warming to her. Maybe they could have realized "ok, she isn't going to stop" so they all give her pointers instead of just her brother being the non-asshole. Then, as a team, they all go to try and take the Yautja down and she winds up being the one who takes the killing shot. But no. Have to push that "strong woman don't need no man" message as hard as they can. I got no problem with people liking this but it is just not for me. I got no problem with women kicking ass in movies but not when the overarching messaging in the film is bashing every male character in it.
Ultra advance warrior creature comes to earth to fight teen girl who uses weapons made of wood.....creature loses..
Loses from a gun, sharp spears, an old gun, and his own weapon*
Put it this way: I’d have paid to see Prey on IMAX. Terrific movie!
slowly evolving to weird al Shado
It hit the mark in my book. Was a good time.
Can really see the enthusiasm as he talks about the movie
My wife loved it my four-year-old daughter loved it and my six-year-old son loved it up until the predator died and then he walked away crying and I had to comfort him and console him and tell him don't worry there's other Yatjua out there lol🤗i swear
It was priceless
bit violent for a 4year old dont you think mate
@@dushy35 My dad who fought in Vietnam showed me the movies Jaws, Predator, Aliens, Robocop, john carpenter's Thing, Terminator, The Blob remake and The Fly when I was 2 years old.
@@punkrockgalbenevenelse3659 seems like a waste tbh hows a 2 year old spose to get the message of any of those film's 😅
@@Prawnsacrifice by me talking to them. Wtf r you asking me?
I asked my dad questions at a young age, my dad answered me truthfully and honestly no matter my age.
So far my kids have honor, respect and imagination out of what they and i speak about.
Plus, Why wouldn't I show my daughter a movie about a hulking monster that is wooped on and smashed(even tho i wanted the predator to win..)by a small warrior woman
I want my daughter to feel strong and proud And know she's strong and smart.🤘😏
@@Prawnsacrifice & obviously it wasn't a waste
Can't wait to hear your thoughts with the forest scene with Naru, Taabe, and the trappers.
i found the main character to be unlikeable, she doesnt have much of a character. she is super smart, wants to hunt and prove she is capable of it but lacks experience... and has a doggy friend. she is stubborn, obsessed and selfish to the point of annoyance. and while yes people dont listen to her, she also doesnt listen to others, wich is very well shown when her brother kills the cat and comes back and wants to talk to her and says ''we did it'', as in she and him killed the cat, clearly about to tell her that she wounded the animal, but she is too obsessed with proving she is a capable hunter to listen. she might suspect there is something thats a danger to the tribe, but at this point the predator has not shown to be a threat to them, so her drive of wanting to hunt this mysterious thing down is just stubborness and obsession with proving herself to the point she doesnt realize her brother actually thinks she is a very talented hunter, but lacks the experience. this is clear when she follows them to hunt the lion and he lets her come along, if he didnt believe in her as a hunter he wouldnt have let her come, but she fails to pick up on this because she is too busy worrying about herself and not the people around her. stubborn, obsessed and selfish, those are her most prominent character traits, she is a modern day hollywood female lead straight out of the standard mold.
I'm holding out hope for Predator vs GWAR.
Only if it's on GWAR's home planet.
I really liked 3/4 of this movie. Probably has some the best kills in the franchise. Not sure about the ending. I didn't sit right with me. How she was able to take down 8 dudes with no issue and then home alone the predator without taking damage...
I'd say a 7. Not as good as pred 1+2, but easily better than the rest of the franchise and spin offs.
That last fight did a whammy on my enjoyment of the film. They could have just added a touch more to that. Too easy
Schwarzenegger couldn't fight it hand to hand or his elite force outgun it, Glover got lucky as the police and government agents died at it's hands. Even ALIENS need some serious numbers to take one down.....but natives with bows, Hold my skinned human and skull trophies, I got this. I doubt my own ancestors the Mayans could take one down lol
The ones hunting Arny and Glover were more experienced, with access to better equipment. Also, a lot of modern weapons are designed to kill humans. The stuff my ancestors used were made to bring down larger prey. Like bison and gators, and further back, mammoths. And to protect against things like bears and mountain lions. Also, some stone blade-making techniques for arrowheads, spearheads, knives, and other cutting tools will cause the stone being honed to break/chip in such a way that it causes a monomolecular edge. Not that they knew what that was, exactly. They just knew it was really sharp. And they didn't have any qualms about using designs that today would be deemed too cruel for use. Compared to life then, life now is too much of a cakewalk for many to really realize how badass our ancestors really were.
This movie was better than I thought it would be. It beat out predators as my second favorite predator movie
This movie was another trash butchering of the predator.
A female indian with zero training, manages to take down half a dozen armed men with her "special moves". The predator was killing so many people that it was just a joke after a while. People getting massacred means nothing if there is no meaning or depth of character to the people that are dying. Even our female lead had no arc at all and was very bland. She wanted to be a hunter? ok so? boring. She actually managed to take down the predator without a scratch - her and her little dog. its just insane.
I mean the "white invaders" immediately cage our female lead, and start multilating her brother. It's so cringe.
Predator was scary because the best soldiers in the world with modern weapons, were brought down to a primal level.
If you start on a primal level... where do you go? oh thats right, an orange plant that makes you invisible to the predator. That's it.
I just need to keep telling myself that im going to be one of those people who say "sorry thats not really predator", same with pretty much every other franchise.
People giving this movie a high rating have had their brains turned off and their bars set to low.
I did watch this with subtitles on and I was surprised the subtitles for French were actually in French. I enjoyed this film a lot and look forward to the direction it may take in a sequel.
@Text me on telegram decker_shado Hey everybody. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS! THIS IS NOT DECKER!
I'm trying to figure out what you're trying to say about the final battle. It is a plan that ends up working, but you're framing it as if it's a negative thing. It's just a plan that worked. Naru had tried killing an elk at the beginning of the movie and it didn't work. She made a plan, a good one, to kill the mountain lion, and it only partially worked. She tried to kill the bear and her bow failed. But she took the lessons she learned from those failures and make sure her final plan worked. That's just character growth.
I'd also disagree about this Predator being stupid. During the final fight, Naru uses her knowledge of the environment to her advantage. When it compromises itself early in the fight, it doesn't do that because it's stupid. It's not just some accident, Naru makes it happen purposefully. I'm unsure what you're really basing it being stupid, or it being a super predator, on.
100% agree with this comment. Naru is a survivalist, a tracker. They are quick thinkers and great strategists. She knows in a hand to hand fight she has no shot, so she forces the Predator to fight on her terms.
The Predator in this movie I don’t think is a Super Predator. It’s a more primal, slightly less advanced form. This is not only demonstrated in their physical appearance, but also their arsenal, no Plasma Caster, but a bolt caster, and a less advanced Bio Mask. This is the first ever hunt on Earth, so of course it doesn’t show up when it’s super hot, it has no idea the overall weather of the planet. It doesn’t even consider hunting humans until it encounters Naru. And even then it’s more fascinated by her and doesn’t consider her a threat. But it’s Mary’s cunning and her resolve that wins the fight and thus draws the attention of the rest of the Predators.
Its stupid. That is the problem with it. A person from the 1700s understands alien tech better than the pred itself can. Smh.
@@MrJC1 so her being observant of what the Predator does and how it’s gear works completely flew over your head huh?
@@wxyoung691 not at all. it just made me laugh like crazy.
I did enjoy Prey but my only big issue with it was....
*Spoiler*
*Spoiler*
How he fell for his own helmet tracking. I mean add with how it was revealed, it makes it seem like he knew his weapons, but kinda forgot a big feature of them. As if a hunter forgetting their weapon have a safety switch.
I saw it the first time on my phone the night it came out and loved it. I just came home from dinner and a movie with my family and I suggested Prey. They all like it a lot. Most not sci-fi fans either. Nothing fancy just a well done Predator movie. A very well done movie overall.
4 out of 5 for sure. I agree with you on every point. It could have been a non predator move and would have been a great non predator movie... In fact it kinda feels like it wasn't a predator movie and they took a screenplay and added the predator to it. The fight scene with her in the French camp was amazing! I wish more movies trusted their actors to do uncut action scenes.
As an aside, my gf watches everything with subtitles on and when the French people were talking the subtitles were in French.
I liked it for the most part i just didnt like the feminist undertones and that she wad badically the native version of einstein. This could have been even bettet if they let the predator win
23:41 her trap at first actually didn’t work, the original trap idea was to have the predator, hopefully sink and drown inside the pit of very deep mud (idk if it was quicksand or not) But since the predator was too large for the pit trap to work, she used its mask and arrow shooter thing as a back up plan in case it didn’t die to the first trap
Meh movie. A couple of neat ideas involving the Predator and also the brother's short fight scene. The men taking 5 mins to reload was funny. I just didn't care about the main character. The dog was easily the best character. So no, it's not even better than Predator 2. I think I'm starting to appreciate Predators.
If the make a sequel I want one of the following to happening
Arnold returning, Samurai, Colonial Marines, Vikings
This is unironically the second best movie in the franchise, not that the bar was that high
Yes. The Predator seems to be making some mistakes, but I credit that to the first move Naru makes against it. She delivers a devastating blow that really prevents the Predator from thinking clearly for the rest of the fight.