Just finished watching the new Predator movie, Prey, on Hulu, and I have to say... it's roughly a million and a half times better than I ever thought it would be. All things considered, I fully expected it to stink, but then I heard Mr. H on the YouTubes give it some pretty high praise, so I decided I'd give it a watch.
I probably would have watched it anyway, at least once, as it is a Predator movie.
But yeah...
I think it's pretty good.
The female lead is NOT a Mary Sue, and I actually liked her quite a lot.
Not the biggest fan of the Predator's new look in this one. His actual face, I mean, not talking about his mask here.
This one, I'd say... well... he's a PARTICULARLY ugly mo... well, you know.
Most all the concerns I had going in didn't pan out.
Predator's hunting code of honor remains intact; Predator is, in fact, fairly badass, and most importantly of all, the Predator does not at any point team up with the hero girl, to take down the "Evil White Folk". The so-called Woke agenda - if it was in play here, it wasn't overbearing, so that's a plus.
No, the Predator laid waste to pretty much everyone, regardless of... well, anything really.
Those aforementioned white folks were pretty vile though, but fairly accurate to the era.
Also, I think there was only one line of dialogue that was what you'd call a call back to the original... but I think it worked pretty well here, and fit in nicely, so no complaint there.
If you told me this was the Predator's first run-in with humans, I could buy it. This Predator was definitely less experienced than the one we saw in the original Predator, at least when it came to dealing with people, and it took more of a whooping that you usually see Predators take.
There is some.... slightly suspect CGI here and there, and like I said, I'm not the world's biggest fan of the Predator's look here, (I much prefer the original design), but for the most part, I did very much enjoy the film and can give it a recommendation. For a modern take on the classic Predator, this isn't half bad. Plus, I hear there's a second version of the film that was recorded in the actual Comanche language for realism's sake. If that's true, that's pretty cool, and I might have to check it out. I watched the basic, mostly English version, because... well... I wanted to understand what they were saying, but if I see the other version in here, I'll probably give it a watch at some point as well.
Now, to go to bed and officially find out if watching it at 3 AM was a good idea or not...