ajalexander2
I have nothing to say about this movie other than IMDb needs to add the negative star option to its ratings scale. It seriously pained me to give this movie a star. Whoever read this screenplay and thought it'd make a good movie needs to be strung up by his/her feet in downtown Los Angeles. They should be made to hover above a pit of lions that have been deprived of meat for weeks. Someone should video the whole process, upload it to their iMovie, drop in a title/credits, and put it on Youtube so everyone out there that was tricked into watching this movie can really take pleasure in wasting a few hours of their lives watching humans being tortured by lions.
Samiam3
True story or not (and I'm sure plenty of the facts are manipulated) There is nothing in Prey that we have not seen before. Its generic formula and a certain lack of credibility/scientific accuracy certainly do some damage but they don't make the movie unwatchable.It certainly could have been worse. For a start, it places a certain value on character, something that many b-movies care little for. There is no obvious reason why we should be rooting against the Newman family, who get screwed while on an African safari.. Their guide is attacked and killed by a lion while escorting the youngest Newman on a pee break. The hapless family is forced to hide and wait in the lousy little tour jeep, until Mr. Newman shows up (he's working construction on a local dam) Meanwhile, three hungry lions are waiting patiently outside.So the film doesn't have us disregarding the protagonists, that's a start. another advantage is the lions being real. There is no five cent CGI in this picture to distract us. Well, some of the blood is clearly digital, but most of it is make up. The movie does have it's share of gore, yet nothing too unrealistic or severely overdone. Prey is shot in a heavily saturated colour scheme and because blood is the only red in the film, it really stands out. (although it is certainly not the only film to try this). The acting quality is nothing to be proud of, but it suspends disbelief enough. As long as it doesn't sound like the characters are reading off a teleprompter, I'm fine with that.So where then does the movie go wrong, well in the same way that many of these films have, it has been done before. Prey is one in a million, and the only possible distinction for one to see is its protagonists being a lion, not a common creature feature creature. If lions sound interesting, my recommendation would be the Ghost in the Darkness.
WakenPayne
While working in a dam in Africa, the American hydraulic engineer Tom Newman brings his family to spend a couple of days in the Leopard's Rest Lodge. His fourteen year-old daughter Jessica is having friction with her stepmother Amy since she does not accept the divorce of her parents. On the next morning, Amy, Jessica and her brother David go in a game drive with a ranger while Tom goes to the dam. While driving off-road, David asks the ranger to stop the jeep to go to the "toilet", and unexpectedly they are attacked by a group of starving lions that kill and eat the ranger. Amy, Jessica and David are trapped in the jeep and stalked by the wild lions. When Tom returns to the hotel and finds that his family has not returned from the game, he asks for help to the experienced hunter and guide Crawford and together they seek Tom's family. In-Crappy-Credible Thats All I Have To Say. I Was Indredibly Surprised To See This Was Not Darrell Roodt's First Movie. In All The Horror Movies I've Seen I Have Never Seen Something This Ridiculos. Lions Attacking Humans For The Fun Of It. At The End The Car They're In Explodes...Now The Children Were Safe With Their Father But The Mother Was Up & Close To The Car...Now The Last Time I Checked...Car Explosions Killed People...Am I Correct?...Thought I Was...The Stepmother Comes Out Of The Wreckage WITHOUT A SCRATCH OR BRUISE! This Deserves Its Rating Of 4.5 But This Deserves A Little Bottom 100 Treatment. How Can Anybody Call This A Scary Lion Movie? 'The Lion King' Was Scarier Than This. The Little Boy Needs Food Or Water Every 5 Minutes...From What I Remember As A Kid I Never Got That Dehydrated That Quickly. In The Middle Of The Film They Have The Chance To Leave...The Stepmother Does Not Go Up The Mountain Where They Came But She Goes Further Down The Mountain. I Don't Mind Horror Movies Just As Long As They Are Done Good...& This Movie Failed That.
chlodowech
Not much to say, beyond what has already been said. It seemed to remind a lot of "The ghost and the Darkness." Well, there was a tough hunter guy... and in "Congo" too. That should tell you something about the kind of stereotyping that sinks movies like this. Pity. It seems like, if they could have resisted this cliché, they would have HAD to come up with a much more original plot. Well, these hardly encouraging comparisons aside, isn't it strange how every park ranger is white? Is it really like that? Though, when you think of how expendable they are, it's kind of like what happens when you take token red-shirt blacks guys and just shift to negatives. Weird. But when you look them up, everyone but the American family is African-born. Interesting. Who would have thunk?When you think about it, not only does this movie have a lot of interesting locations, it is also more fast-paced than most give it credit for. There was a sort of stand-off with the lions, which was over in the first half hour of the movie - then the plot was already elsewhere. In other words: Even though it admittedly seems slow, a lot does happen in a short while. Think about it: A generally more accepted horror movie like "The Ruins" had one location, no more. Interesting use of modern technology (like a camera to spot keys), not even in a gimmicky cam-movie, shows real promise. So give this one a watch, after all.
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