Prey

These characters are complete idiots.

Their decisions are absolute garbage. Until the literal last moment of the film.

I watched to the end to see who lives. None of the characters want their lives anyway. And their drama is unnecessary idiocy while they are being attacked.

Meanwhile, the reason for the hunt is the only plausible part of this film. And the solid acting carries the film.

There's no new ground here, a bachelor party turns into a slaughter fest, as two brothers, and three friends venture into the wilderness.

I really do like atmosphere and tension as a rule, but this takes it too far, and apart from a few nice scenes, it drags on way too slowly.

The characters are all clichés, we have the family link, the quiet and scared one, the gay one, the cute one, and of course the angry one.

I watched it with friends, and they enjoyed it, I'm afraid I yawned through most of it, just too slow, the major plus point has to be the visuals, it does look very nice, but to reach the end, it's a slog. Worst of all is the embarrassing ending.

Once again I find myself struggling to find a good film on Netflix.

Maybe if it had been condensed down to 60 minutes, it may have worked a little bit better, unfortunately it's too much of a slog, 3/10.

This seems the be the new filmmaking with an absolute minimum of characters and no extras. The rise of the covid-19 safe film. Ok I get it, really I do, but this does not mean the plot needs to keep 6ft from anything interesting as well. If you are no longer relying on big special effects with lots of extras for a film to succeed it has to come from somewhere else.

And your thought would be something along the lines of: "Why did I waste my time with this?" or "How does Netflix greenlight something as bad as this?" or even "How could you make a movie even more pointless than this?".

These are all very valid questions, indeed. This film has very little to offer, most of it being utter disappointment and boredom. Add in stupid characters who are as flat as the writer's brain is smooth and pacing that makes a limping grandma seem agile.

Season with some awful camera work and a color palette that seems like they accidentally delivered the ungraded version for even more blandness and sprinkle some stock music with no meaning into this stew of talentlessness to have the complete experience: 87 minutes that you will never get back.

Stay far away from this and watch something good instead. For example, something this is miserably failing at copying: DELIVERANCE.

Slow, no plot, shallow characters, fast forwarded it from a point on. Complete waste of time.