Prey Review
The Predator franchise is an unusual beast, one fantastic action/horror blockbuster in the 80s that multiple filmmakers have tried and failed to follow up. With Prey, the fifth entry in the franchise, director Dan Trachtenberg brings new weight to the material while also creating easily the best entry since the first.
Prey pits the familiar Yautja hunter against the Comanche nation of the 18th-century Great Plains region. It's the first big franchise feature of its kind to star an almost fully Native American cast. Amber Midthunder of Legion fame leads alongside Dakota Beavers, Stormee Kip, Michelle Thrush, and Julian Black Antelope.
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Prey centers on Naru, a young Comanche girl who has been trained extensively as a healer. Despite her skill in medicine, she longs for the glory and pride of life as a hunter. Her brother is among the most skilled warriors in her tribe, but her people seek to keep young Naru in her assigned role. Despite the disapproval of her elders, she trains hard, becoming a talented warrior and an almost preternaturally gifted hunter. Naru eagerly awaits a chance to prove herself in a traditional contest, hunting and killing a creature that hunts back. As she does everything she can to win a position of favor and fails at every turn, she begins to notice something deadlier than the typical wildlife in the woods. As the true scope of what she's up against reveals itself to her, she'll have to use all of her skills just to survive.
One of the most notable moments of John McTiernan's 1987 classic Predator comes when Sonny Landham's Special Forces Tracker Billy Sole discovers the eponymous threat and makes a choice. Rather than running and hiding,
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