Prey 2022.
This prequel to the Predator series is now available on Disney+ (of which I'm enjoying the free trial).
Set in 1719, in Comanche territory, it tells the story of a young woman called Naru, who is trained as a healer but her feisty spirit is unhappy with a passive female role and she has ambitions to become a hunter (now where have we heard that old chestnut before?).
She witnesses something inexplicable and half-glimpsed in the trees and then stalking animals on the plains and it turns out to be a visit from everyone's 2nd favourite alien, on a hunting mission of his own.
Naru doesn't just have the Predator and misogynist tribal attitudes to overcome though (and from what I've read about brutal Comanche patriarchal society I doubt Naru would be cut as much slack as she gets in this movie). She encounters a gang of French trappers (what were they doing so far south in Comanche territory?) who are more monstrous than any Predator.
You can pretty well guess how things pan out after that. There's a very strong feminist message at the core of the movie in similar manner to Alexa's role in Alien v Predator, with the action being certainly spectacular and gory, if not always convincing.
A nice hat-tip is included to the Arnie-in-the mud scene from the original Predator.
Watchable, but not a patch on the 1987 original.
6.5/10
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