"PREY" SETS A STANDARD FOR SCIFI STREAMING PLATFORMS

🎥 🎞 Movie Review 🎥 🎞  - PREY - Hulu - Rated R - No Soilers! Every once in a while a smaller movie production team releases a gem of a film that could of made for a full feature film to go world wide on the big screen, and this is one of them. PREY stars Amber Midthunder as Naru, a Comanche Native American woman who doesn't just want to be the standard female of a small tribe. She wants to be a hunter, a tracker, and also a healer; these positions in a tribe were mostly held by older, maturer males. Being a Native American myself, made it a little too hard  for me to swallow that the female lead was stronger and more intelligent than the males at first, but I let the movie play and this thing quickly started to burn in the right direction and at the right time. Case in point; if I can accept that in previous Hollywood films, a Caucasian woman killed two big ass aliens in two different films, another Caucasian woman destroyed a cyborg using a compactor, and another Caucasian woman killing a large St. Bernard infected with rabies, then a Native American woman can surely kill a Predator with a tomahawk!

Brilliantly directed by SciFi extraordinaire Dan Trachtenberg who also directed a Cloverfield spinoff and an episode of Black Mirror, he set off to make PREY a little bit more believable and give the Native Americans, who were considerably under armed and extremely vulnerable to an alien predators high tech weapons attacks, a very daring and brave bunch of warriors who faced their enemy without regard to their own safety and lives.

Rumor has surfaced that the Native American cast members of PREY were required to speak Comanche during their screening test, should the director had decided to film the entire production in the Native American tongue. The film presented the Comanche tribe in a pre-horse history, where the first French and anglo-saxon visitors entered their region of territory and introduced the natives to horseback riding, so English was not a native tongue in the region for many years, but I feel that the movie transitioned into the need for English very well.

The visual and special effects for the film were superb and sometimes a little too much for a few scenes. But there was fantastic detail presenting the Native American's, which I felt was pretty impressive and along the lines of the visual beauty not seen since Kevin Costner's Dances With Wolves was released. And I'd like to extend a few kudos to the designer of the Predator, as this was a prequel to the first film and they gave a clean restart to the alien hunter from that which was seen in the first and second Predator movies.

Make no mistake, this is a solid and horrifying look at the Predator series. I highly recommend you see this film without any interruption. One look off the movie to grab for your phone or a drink and you'll miss something important!

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