In the land of make-believe its unbelievable. This is the least entertaining, and most ridiculous of the Predator movies. The main charter has a chip on her shoulder that makes her unlikeable. She goes from entitled Instagram model to an axe-wielding master ninja in just hours. Another of many things that bothered me about this movie was how she instantly understands the technical aspects of alien weaponry enough to use it against the Predator. Really? The story makes no sense. The Predators have always gone after the most dangerous threats, but for some unknown reason, this Predator seems out to get her.

Ooops, must have had the wrong opinion on a political movie again, the staff at IMDb are doing the insta-ratio. "What, you don't conform to our party politics, well dislike the moment after you post."

LOL, have fun, that hasn't stopped me.

So... "If it bleeds," and you are supposed to roll your eyes back like a shark in a feeding frenzy and applause because 'member-berries. Only in the first one, there was actually a reason to say it. In this one it was forced in.

But then Prey stars "Strong Female Lead," who is playing "Strong Female Lead," and you can tell what her check marks are because everything comes easy to her. EVERYTHING.

Her tribe is bad because they don't want her to be a hunter, even though she is the best hunter ever. And she is the best tracker ever. And she is the best fighter ever. And she is the smartest person ever.

So you know she is going to win, instantly, and she does. Her tribe gets brutally punished by the Predator for not realizing that she is the greatest person in the world and good at everything.

Only some of the tribe actually does pretty noble things... that aren't seen as noble in the script.

Until evil white people come who are playing the role of evil white people because all white people are absolute evil and the film needs to add them in to show white evilness because the predator is an alien, so you don't get the racial all white people are evil messaging if it is just the predator vs a group of Native American hunters.

So evil white people have to be awkwardly shoe-horned into the plot that was already, kind of, going well despite the addition of Strong Female Lead playing Strong Female Lead and checking off boxes without actually having a personality.

Meanwhile her brother actually does some pretty heroic, selfless, and respectable things in the film, that hardly get recognized because of Strong Female Lead's absolute perfectness.

The truth is, you have seen this before, it's every other PC check-marked movie that has come out in the past 4 years, and the check-marked characters are just as interchangeable. It might as well be Captain Marvel v the Predator, you literally wouldn't notice the difference.

Confession: I'm the guy who watched the original Predator way too many times thanks to the magic of VHS...but then never watched a single sequel afterwards. As far as I'm concerned "Predator" = jungles and body butter. So I fully admit that I have limited context here. That said, this movie kicked butt. I cared way more about Naru and her brother (not to mention her dog) than I did about anybody in the original. I found the cinematagrophy breathtaking, I found the characters compelling, and I'm kind of all in on seeing what happens when we transport modern franchises into different historical/cultural contexts. Plus, the callbacks were delightful. Nobody's going to give this movie an Oscar, but I'd rather watch a story like this than most movies with capes and poorly staged action sequences. I was sucked in from moment one, and Amber Midthunder completely captivated me for the whole runtime. It's nice to know that movies like this can still surprise me, not to mention make me stand up and cheer.