Prey

You ever listen to AC/DC or say ZZ Top? In both cases you have rock bands that play these simple big riffs and never try to over complicate the boogie.

And it seems so easy. Except that any musician would tell you that it is incredibly hard. It takes an amazing amount of work and practice to make something that looks so simple. 

Prey is an AC/DC song hitting one or two riffs and playing them beautifully in a lean running time. 

Here is action movie with a smart dog and a plucky heroine. 

It lives and dies by it’s premise that a predator is stalking in the same area where a Comanche tribe is hunting for food. 

A young woman is a smart hunter who wants to prove herself to her older brother and the men in her tribe. 

These two hunters are on a direct course with one another. 

Anddddd that’s it.

No seriously, save for a small second act complication (that I don’t want to spoil) that is absolutely it. 

Love it. Give it all the flowers.

An action movie that knows what it is, doesn’t do more than it needs to and doesn’t overstay it’s welcome. 

Do you know how hard that is? 

It has a few small connections to the other movies but nothing that you need to know. In fact, this could be someone’s first predator movie and that would be absolutely fine. 

The actual first one is a classic along with Conan and The Terminator is among the very best that Arnold ever did.

And I have a soft spot for the second one cause Danny Glover is awesome and it has an Alien skull at the end of it.

One of the characters in Prey says one of the classic lines from the original. And when it was said it was one of those, for me, ohhh yeahhh moments that great action movies can nail and bad action movies can ruin.

Anyway, this movie gives you a ton of Predator fun and never slows down. 

This is a good hunt indeed.