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'Prey' spielt vor 300 Jahren in der Comanchen-Nation und erzählt die Geschichte einer jungen Frau, Naru (Amber Midthunder), einer wilden und hochqualifizierten Kriegerin. Sie ist im Schatten einiger der legendärsten Jäger aufgewachsen, die die 'Great Plains' durchstreifen, und wenn Gefahr ihr Lager bedroht, macht sie sich auf den Weg, um ihr Volk zu beschützen. Die Beute, die sie verfolgt und letztendlich konfrontiert, entpuppt sich als hoch entwickeltes außerirdisches Raubtier mit einem technisch fortgeschrittenen Arsenal, was zu einem bösartigen und schrecklichen Showdown zwischen den beiden Kontrahenten führt... (Leonine)
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Ein intensives Waldabenteuer mit einer angenehmen Indianerpoetik und einer effektvollen Rückkehr des zweitbesten Filmmonsters ever. Das Drehbuch hat Schwung und enthält nette Details sowie Überraschungen, die Action ist schön fließend und kinetisch. Das Woman-Power-Element ist natürlich und glaubhaft, das attraktive Motiv "ein Wilder gegen einen Wilden in der Wildnis" wurde prima genutzt. Die Schauspieler*innen und die Masken sind würdig, die unbekannte Amber Midthunder ist zehnmal besser als der Oscarpreisträger Adrien Brody (der solide Film Predators von Nimród Antal). Man könnte ein paar kleine Details kritisieren, z. B. den Kampf im Finale, der durchdachter und weniger hektisch hätte sein können. Im Vergleich zu der allgemeinen Zufriedenheit sind es aber nur Kleinigkeiten. Es gibt keine Filmserie, die tot ist, alle warten nur auf den richtigen Typen. Dan Trachtenberg hat in ihrem Rahmen einen Weg gewählt, der zu ihm am meisten gepasst hat. Er hat es mit viel Herzblut gemacht und war erfolgreich. Ein Film von einem begabten Filmemacher und Filmfan für Filmfans.
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A bit of a better made-for-TV movie. The few panoramic shots try to give the impression of visual richness and grandeur à la National Geographic, but for the vast majority of the time it's just a visually poorer film that doesn't belong in the cinema and the streaming format suits it. It doesn't lack a few neatly severed heads, what it lacks the oppressive atmosphere of the first one, which is on a completely different level. The Indians lack believability, and when I compare it to the likes of Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, which literally worked wonders with a comparable budget in terms of period authenticity and visual gore, I almost want to cry. A female protagonist in a predator franchise is an interesting idea, unfortunately in a film where only the bear scene stands out from the average. And no, the heroine's final fight, which turns the Predator into an incompetent moron, I really didn't buy that one. Arnold could beat such a naive slob with just his farts.
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Dan Trachtenberg gave me a similar pleasure as he did with 10 Cloverfield Lane. Predator: Prey is a confidently made adventure horror film that isn't afraid to go its own way, and at the same time, I dare say it will please fans of Predator more than anything that came after the second film. And like 10 Cloverfield Lane, the trailers are pretty deceptive and the film ends up having a slightly different feel and pace than you might expect. Still, I think I enjoyed the first half more, where there's no rush to get anywhere and the Comanche setting is unadorned and quite attractive. And while there's no Arnold, these tough guys from the American plains aren't wimps either. The main character is also very easy to root for. What I enjoyed most, however, was the way Trachtenberg treats the Predator itself in the first half. It gets an unexpected amount of space here, and for the first time we get to see it properly as a hunter, and a very fierce and cruel one at that. The new Predator won't rewrite the history of the genre or the brand, but it's a well made and above all cleverly conceived film. The former is what we hoped for, the latter is what I personally didn't expect, and I'm all the more pleased about it. It was a success.
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A straightforward intimate period survival "from the mud to the puddle and back to the mud again" that would stand on its own, especially when it is functionally, and not just for show, set in the Predator universe. It's not without many "buts" (the atmosphere should have been thicker, it could have done with even more reliance on practical effects instead of digital, at times it feels like an adaptation of a rebooted Tomb Raider, and the English language didn't need to be so overused), but who cares when it works so well.
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Dan Trachtenberg has revived the Predator brand and even though no one believed in the film after the first trailers, it is a success and I am happy with it too. I appreciate that Prey is set during the Comanche era, it has an Apocalypto feel to it and we don't get many gritty films with Indians, much less in the horror subgenre, so I applaud the period and the setting. I liked that the first half is like survival flick where we watch a bunch of animals hunting each other (cougar, bear, wolf, snake, rabbit). I could easily imagine a whole movie where a bunch of CGI animals eat each other in the jungle accompanied by a dense R-rated action, it would probably drive me crazy (so hopefully I'll get to see it one day). The Predator slowly gets acquainted with a new planet and a lot of time is spent hunting, which I enjoyed. The second half turns into a decent action inferno where the Predator attacks the French colonizers and that is one of the best scenes of the film, the final duel is also good. There are some impressive deaths, though the gore could have been more nutritious, but it's sufficient. Amber Midthunder is likeable and surprisingly skilled in combat, so I had no problem believing her. The music and atmosphere were also good. The only minor issue I have is with the Predator's invisible camouflage, which didn't make a good impression on me, but once the hunk showed up in full glory I was satisfied. For the new generation that probably won't put on the original Predator anymore, I think Prey is a cool notch in the franchise. Story 3/5, Humor 0/5, Violence 4/5, Fun 4/5 Music 4/5, Visuals 4/5, Atmosphere 4/5, Suspense 4/5, Emotion 2/5, Actors 3/5. 8/10
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Just my sort of Disney movie. No need to make a live action version of Pocahontas... Trachtenberg slowly but effectively builds the atmosphere in the style of the original Predator and carefully calculates where to pull out the trumps just at the right moment in the story. The camerawork, production design and the overall atmosphere swallows you up and doesn’t let you go for an instant in the second half. Midthunder is completely convincing as the young Indian girl and carries the entire movie effortlessly on her shoulders. Although the message that technique and details are much more important for killing than strength is rendered invalid with the pistol handed over at the end, which indicates what then had to happen in the epilog, but maybe the filmmakers are just preparing the ground for a sequel, who knows?
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Finally a sequel to Predator that is very similar to the legendary first film. It doesn't trump it in the depressing, sometimes even horror atmosphere, and of course not in the originality of the initial creative idea either, but Prey certainly doesn't put it to shame. The plot is relatively coherent (similar to the scheme of the first one), the hunter himself has plenty of space and a couple of scenes are really delicious. There’s the bear scene, already mentioned here, which is OK, but too digital. Paradoxically, the best scene IMHO is not led by the Predator, but by young Amber Midthunder, who at one point dispatches a couple of smirking sleazebags, and she does it nicely without a single cut, in a perfectly clear manner and with the right amount of explicit violence. Overall, the creators are not afraid of brutality, on the contrary. It's still a B movie, but it's ambitious, suspenseful, and for once even the average viewer can enjoy it.
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I’m thrilled! Thiis is exactly the kind of story Predator needed. As much as I love Black's last foray, the western concept is a hit, and there are plenty of beautiful parallels between the alien hunter's quest and the lives of the Comanche heroes. The film doesn't rush anywhere and I liked how mysterious and suspenseful it is even for the viewer who knows what's going on, who landed in those woods and what they're after. Everything makes sense (the Predator gradually raises the bar by what he hunts and how he hunts, the protagonist also gains abilities, and she's not alone, although the trailers made it seem so), it's fun, clever, original, imaginative, action-packed and mysterious... It easily keeps up with the original and the second one. And I want the second part, because it's definitely on the cards and the end credits hinted at it. PS: I would like to single out Sarah Schachner's music, which easily made do without the Silvestri theme.
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I have no problem declaring that I'll probably still like the first one better. But the comparisons that an awful lot of people are wallowing in this case will only serve me further to argue how great Prey is as a completely different and separate work that could have been a great original to the whole series. While the original Predator carved out an almost individual sub-genre in which 80s blowhards stumble upon a space villain who unexpectedly kicked their asses (it was more of a humorous inversion of the established action patterns of the time), Prey takes a bite out of various genres within its narrative and historical lineage. It is a precursor to the colonial western, when the indigenous inhabitants were far from facing only wild animals and were confronted with a far more dangerous invader, the white man. It's a smart emancipation horror film, where the teenage heroine has to slay the scariest creature imaginable to prove to the cocky guys that she's a force to be reckoned with anywhere but in the kitchen. And unlike the first film, in which the dense jungle was for most of the time a rather anonymous backdrop from which the Predator gradually emerged, Prey is a film about the hard hand of Mother Nature. The female lead literally flounders and nearly dies in the mud and is almost torn apart by a bear, as she is far from being the master of creation from the start. The fearless macho narcissists in the first film played at being such masters and would probably have punched the lion, here the nervousness is built up during the initial walk through the forest and the "hunter-prey" motif is developed on both sides – in the wilderness of that time you were both hunter and victim at the same time and you only came of age when you set out to take down an opponent who could just as easily have taken you down. In this regard, the introduction of the Predator is also great, including an endearing and at the same time disturbing scene where the top link of the food chain is corresponded (a rodent eats an ant, a snake eats the rodent and the snake is eviscerated by a watching Predator). The first one was probably more entertaining in sum, more uncompromisingly directed and the final confrontation was more thrilling, but Prey is at least a more complex and better paced film. At the level of scenes, the sub-psychology, relationships or impulses that will soon play a key role in the heroine's decision-making are well established. The rather bland plot sparks a gripping survival storyline, supported by the aforementioned approach to the setting and director Dan Trachtenberg's precise eye. It makes the most of the beautiful scenery, presents the action in a variable way, and personally gave me no room to moan about the weaker CGI or the improbability of the young girl's encounter with the alien giant, because the film is so consistent in its handling of important motifs that no physical confrontation and its development feels silly. Though it doesn't look as majestic, and the smaller budget is probably noticeable in places, Predator: Prey is a better and more fulfilling film for me than the period-related The Revenant, which dabbled more in pretty pictures and told less of a worthwhile story. And I really find strange the dismissive reception from some people, who have probably already bought into the idea that Girl vs. Predator is stupid and that the first two episodes are just classics. The stubborn attitude of this era is really fucked up sometimes, and the thing I regret the most is that it's me, born in 1995, writing this.
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Wie es scheint, werde ich gegen den Strom gehen. Die Rückkehr zu den Ursprüngen und der unverfälschten Einfachheit der Predator-Saga war notwendig, aber dieses Konzept hat meine Vorstellung von funktionierender Filmemacherei völlig verfehlt. Im Gegensatz zum Original-Predator, der ein klassischer Thriller ist und in dem alles perfekt funktioniert, funktioniert Prey - Predator 5 dramaturgisch überhaupt nicht und versinkt den Zuschauer in uninteressanten Dialogen, ohne Spannung, fehlenden Charakterentwicklungen und einer zwar ununterbrochenen, aber bereits in den ersten Minuten langweiligen Action. Zudem verdirbt die Überflutung mit digitalen Tieren und CGI-Effekten, selbst an Stellen, wo sie nicht gebraucht werden, die Atmosphäre unglaublich. Dies sollte der natürlichste Predator sein und ist stattdessen der künstlichste von allen. Es ist einfach nicht da, es ist nicht vorhanden.
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A surprisingly harsh, body-ripping, and above all fresh idea to place the extraterrestrial hunter among the Indians. The film strikes an artful balance between the more intimate atmosphere of the American forests during the colonial era and the unbounded bloodlust of the Predator, which the film constantly parades shamelessly past the camera with minimal pauses. The protagonist doesn't come across as a woke celebration of feminism, but a believable student of hunting who thinks logically. The script doesn't really waste time with anything, the plot hurtles along, and so its a bit of a disappointment that the final fight is a rather weak one that a predatory audience wouldn't give its champion a medal for. Decent fun for a single-serve action film, and in the context of its rather inferior predecessors, this representative of the franchise makes it to a weak 4 stars by the skin of its dreadlocks.
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Gibt es eine Möglichkeit, ein Filmreihe wiederzubeleben, deren Qualität seit dem Science-Fiction-Kultactioner aus den 80er Jahren mit jedem weiteren Film stetig gesunken ist? Trachtenberg nahm sich diese "Herausforderung" zu Herzen und servierte einen würdigen Vertreter aus dem Predator-Universum. Ich lobe die Idee, die Handlung an den Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts und darüber hinaus in das Umfeld der Comanchen zu verlegen - auch wenn dieses Milieu seine Reserven hatte (die Macher hätten z. B. mehr mit der Sprache spielen können). Ich hätte in diesem Fall nicht nur auf die Macht der Frauen gesetzt, denn Ellen Ripley hatte die Invasoren mehr als vierzig Jahre zuvor verprügelt. Das Aussehen des Predators ist etwas anders als in den Vorgängern, und es sah mit der stylischen Knochenmaske definitiv besser und furchteinflößender aus als ohne sie, während es zu viele CGI-Tiere im Film gibt, die nichts zur Handlung beitragen (vielleicht waren nur der Bär und der Puma wichtig). Dennoch hat mir der (angemessen lange) Film Spaß gemacht - vor allem durch die regelmäßig portionierte Action und das stilvolle Setting.
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I decided to ignore the word horror in the list of genres. I've never thought of the Predator movies as horror movies and I'm not planning on changing that. Aside from the truly idiotic but currently the only politically correct idea of an emancipated squaw (ten out of ten hairy feminists agree), I was quite entertained by the story itself. Even though the visual aspect had some flaws and the logic occasionally failed to keep up with what was going on, I decided to be generous. / Lesson learned: Are you a good tracker? Don't drown in a swamp. It would be pretty embarrassing.
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