Prey

Believe the 1* reviews, the 9*s and 10*s are plants, this film has terrible acting, awful editing, atrocious continuity, watch the teroorists gun when hes asleep for one instance, leant against the plane then in his lap, ridiculous storyline, they do thing even in their state of panic you couldn't imagine doing, in fact there's not one redeeming quality I can think of, the actors in it have created something that they'd prob do at the end of their career when they revieved a massive tax bill and knew they were about to be evicted, even then an actor with any conscience would turn it down due to embarrassment, I will return to this review to see if its true score gets to around 2 or 3.

I have a relatively low threshold to meet for a movie to be passable. I dont mind some bad acting, bad special effects, loose plot holes, etc as long as the movie has some sort of storyline and a bit of a twist. This movie had nothing. No plot, no hero, no villain, nothing. Barely any animals are even shown and there's no big showdown between "man and beast". The acting was horrendous from all points which is shocking because some of them are decent actors in other films. The ending was the best part because it meant I could turn it off. There is absolutely no redeeming qualities in this entire film. Please do yourself a favour and find ANYTHING else to watch.

Hm. It's a tricky one, is this. How do I be polite yet be honest about this film. Firstly, what ever happened to the jeep? Secondly, I've seen turds dry up quicker under a solar lamp. Thirdly, how did they get the make up on the lion? Then between scenes it must have had a wash, for now it's 'sans' blood, so there must be water nearby to quench their thirst? I mean what the hell is going on? It's like The Grey made into a PG version, made suitable for children who don't have a clue what the hell is going on, but are happy to be entertained by the charming clown you're mother's petrified of. It's not a beast of a film, it's watchable just to see how bad it can get. And why the buggery didn't they use the jeep?

I wanted to love this movie. It has a fantastic cast and going into it I had really high hopes. What you get is a movie that could have been really great, but in the end was poorly executed. What will likely be the draw for most is the animal attack aspect. Survival horror... man vs nature. It's present, but they decided to take the Jaws approach here. A few people fall prey to the wildlife but the events are completely left to your imagination. I felt like they fell flat in that department in a big way. I wasn't looking for a gore fest, but you have almost ZERO animal human interaction here. The initial attack was a shock to me, but not in a good way... the way it was done. Very ambiguous. You see the characters and they are fine. When we're brought back to the scene after a cut to other characters, the attack has already taken place seemingly some time ago. I just wasn't a fan of how it all went down. Some characters do absolutely ridiculous things that make no sense. There's at least one huge continuity issue. Then there's an almost ridiculous spiritual undertone to this that I also felt was poorly executed. One of the main characters is dealing with a crisis of faith and he makes what I feel are some ridiculous choices that are supposed to be faith based. I feel like the writer or director has the notion that having faith negates the ability to reason. Indeed I've known some people like this, but it's not the rule. The kind of people who don't lock their door because God's looking out for them. Inevitably they're burglarized or worse. God gave you the ability to reason and a lock to keep people out 🤷‍♂️ I digress... This could have been a good film especially with the main cast. Unfortunately it wasn't, and for numerous reasons.

So you get 3 really top actors in Suvari, Hirsch and Phillippe to do a survival film in the Kalahari, you'd expect it to be great right? Wrong.

First off this is not the actors fault, it was the unimaginative dialogue and direction, no character building, scenes were so obviously rushed that one of the characters actually dies without even showing what actually happened LOL

This film is like some rich guy from Dubai or Saudi offered an obscene amount of money for these actors to be in their masterful project and it absolutely sucked.

The use of lions being the main predator in the film is just lame and actually put's them in a very bad light.