 Star Wars hey guys actually a positive review for once I'll admit I can be a little bit of a negative Nancy sometimes but I actually have a very positive review for you guys today and that is about prey I saw this last night I was actually really highly anticipating it between all of the good reviews I'd heard the fact that the director of 10 Cloverfield Lane was coming back which a film that really surprised me in fact I actually have the blue ray on the wall and it was a prequel to a series that I find has never been beat since the first film which is one of my all-time favorite action slash even thriller sci-fi horror movies the predator or predator is S tier movie making the fact that that was John McTiernan's first real big movie and the fact that it has some of the most testosterone oozing super 80s action stars of all time going in taking out a bunch of the rebels and then getting the shit kicked out of them and picked off one by one by the super predator where it turns in from this it goes from being a kind of standard 80s action movie to a flunk and survival horror movie still blows me away to this day so to see the prey going back in time going back to the 1700s and focusing on a Comanche group taking on a predator was really cool for several different reasons one of them being just the focus on the Comanche lifestyle and traditions how she uses a lot of what she's known not only just as a hunter but also in medicine making from her mother and she combines those assets into making her character not a Mary Sue which has been kind of prevalent with a lot of that female action movies in the last while but she actually has the skills we see her develop these skills we see her fail we see her struggle we see her have to learn how to survive not only against the predator but also in the environment itself and then speaking of which the predator I actually really like this predator design it has a little bit of the familiar guba fish look from the predators movie which by the way I also think that movie is a little bit given a little bit more flak than it should be because I think that's a solid movie in itself sorry the camera decided to go a little rogue there but I enjoyed its design because obviously this is 300 years before the arning movie so the technology while similar it's a little bit older but it's still kind of quintessentially forward ahead I like his use of the shield the different weapons and the fact that he just goes on a fucking rampage trying to find the apex predator of the earth like he starts with the snake starts with a wolf then goes up to the fucking grizzly bear where when he cuts it open and all the blood is just pouring on his invisibility and he just gets soaked in the blood it was so brutal which again another little segue the gore in this movie you might think at first is a little bit tame and you're like is this actually an R rated movie there's are just gonna be like kind of barely passable PG-13 then when he kills the bear you're like okay that's good but where where I want a little bit more and it gives you more some of the kills and there's a battle there's a fight scene that happens about halfway through the film that they just got creative they got fucking Tom Savini creative in terms of the gore because there's a few that I actually stopped reroute rewound went back and rewatch them because they were so good they were so creative they were so gory they were so brutal they really fit into what makes a predator this massive killing machine not only for it being just this eight foot tall behemoth but also for its tools its cunningness its willing to kill and all it's just general strategy and that also then takes me back into how she takes on the lead character takes on the predator I do enjoy her struggle or her learning against this creature and the life lessons that she has both a guy as I said against the predator as well as some situations that she falls into herself there's this moment where she falls into this like kind of mud pit and which admittedly I thought was going to be kind of a play back to how Arnie was able to hide himself from the predator by covering himself in clay they don't do that but they have something else that I actually enjoyed that they were able to find us something new but still familiar to the series in terms of how it works and then I enjoy the relationship with her brother and that kind of combination because she's trying to show that she's not just a wife she's not set to do just the woman thinks she wants to be able to show that she's a fighter because obviously there's this kind of loss with her father that's slightly held on and then her motivation is because all of you say I can't do it and that is a good motivation for most people some of that stubborn motivation that just because you're being told you can't do it what like that would motivate you even more so I found all the fight scenes with her and the creature quite good I thought they were all really believable in terms of how this movie was portraying itself with characters and whatnot there is one tiny thing that I have an issue with but I'll talk about that after I do the rating but it is so minor that I feel that it's not really worthy of it if anything there is an actual terms of pacing the beginning of the movie is a little slow there are some moments where she is kind of kind of being stubborn with overly stubborn with people about what she's talking about and also douchebag Rufio is in this movie for those of you who know what I'm talking about the other part of the group of the tribe who's just kind of a prick and he just like an asshole Rufio from hook then I thought he was kind of in but aside from that I enjoyed it and there was something else though that was a little bit strange now they talked about how this film they were talking about actually possibly shooting the whole thing with them speaking Comanche which would have been cool actually I would have liked to have seen that but they did come back and redub all of their dialogue so all the actors came back to do all their lines over so you could listen to it and then have the subtitles for it but there are parts where she speaks Comanche Comanche for as the film is progressing we're hearing English to us but that's them speaking in Comanche to each other and then when we hear French there's no subtitles and that makes sense I'm okay with that it was when she spoke Comanche to herself several times throughout the film there's no subtitles I'm like okay I get I kind of don't get this because I want to know what she's saying like I'd like to know because now I'm just gonna have to Google what she said otherwise pray is a solid solid predator movie it's probably the best one since the original and the only one that I was holding in that regard in terms of second place was Predators because I really do enjoy Predators I think it's a fun not really well it's not really complex which this one doesn't have as like super complexity to it either but it does have character development which is good to see it's got not just from her either there's other characters I get some development in this film I think that it's a solid solid action movie it's got solid thriller elements there's some good gore some good scares some good horror not only with the predator but also the animals there's a certain scene with a bear that really freaked me out I have to say that pray is definitely in my top three for the year so far I think this film exceeded my expectations it did a great service to the predator franchise and I'm actually kind of upset that it wasn't in theaters because I feel it should get a theatrical run it's that good so in the end I'm gonna give pray a six out of seven if you guys are fans of the Predator series highly recommend going to see it or just watching it on your Disney Plus I mean and if you have any other kind of means I would suggest watching it because it is fun it is super fun to watch now that one little conniption I said I had there's a part at the end of the film now I'm gonna say a spoiler bit here so just letting you know when she has the fat French guy like as bait essentially for the predator she's taken the flower so that she wouldn't be seen so then what she does though is just as the predator is about to come up on Frenchy she steps out of his way out of the predator's way but at this point where it just how it's shot it makes it look like she's stepping directly out of his way some of my friends have said that it kind of makes it look like it's her stepping to the side like she's already kind of out of the way but my thought is if he's looking at it he can see fatty and his heat signature but then all of a sudden this big blue blob moves out of his way and he becomes much more visible and this big blue blob is right next to you because while he's like he we know he can't see like he can still like he's not attracted to non heat signature threats he still can see the outline of blues so I thought that part was a little bit like okay hang on here like but that's it that's my only connection I love the fucking predator kills my favorite kill is when he gets the guy up against the tree stump and then he has his shield come out and chops the fucking dude's head off because then during the fight scene she she goes in between those two rocks and the and the shield tries to clamp on her face so good anyways guys that's all for me hope you enjoyed this video if you did leave a like and if you're interested in more subscribe otherwise see you guys next time