The Prometheus has dropped out of orbit. Communications and life support systems are down. Situation Critical: Status of Crew and Prisoner unknown. With orders to catch their Alien Prisoner alive the surviving crew of the spaceship Prometheus pursue a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with their escaped prisoner on a deserted and barren planet. But, who is the hunter and who is its prey?
Militaristic sci-fi set in a Trek-like alien diaspora, the pursuit of a prisoner on a desert planet has apocalyptic consequences. The CGI and make-up have that SyFy channel look and the plot is far too consumed in alpha-bro posturing, but there are also some nifty, if very TV-centric, twists.
I've seen a lot of people defend this because it's extremely low budget, but if you do have a low budget then why would you draw attention to that fact with some shitty looking effects? Write a better script for fuck's sake and then it will hardly matter.
Brilliant little gem. The story could have been a western, a samurai movie, almost anything really. But it's a scifi, and well, I love it more for it. Very basic, bare-bones stuff, cop-and-robber, hunter and prey; loads of great character development and the universe comes out fully fleshed with no infodumps. That's great writing. My only minus is the music, which cannot in any way fulfil the role it is given.
Rather enjoyable, cheap but competently made that mixes elements of the Star Trek episode Arena, Battlefield Earth (and I mean the story, not the rank filmmaking), and Enemy Mine in a blender and comes up with a pretty satisfying product. Very enjoyable.
I love how he made this movie comes together with excellent visuals and just basic storytelling.
In my book this movie deserved broader attention and appreciation. I for one will keep close attention towards future work of Sandy Collora.
For a cheaply made movie, this one isn't bad. There is elements that we have seen before in other films that are much better done but this one really builds it between the two opposing aliens and makes you wonder who you want to win. A lot of it feels like Enemy Mine with the lessons it wants to teach but in the end who is the real winner when there is nothing left of the world.
Just reminding anyone looking at this entry here (there's barely any reviews of this on here which says a lot) that the director of this has a track record of being barred from special effects studios for being an insane far-right conman, so I'm gonna copy and paste the receipts I found online when looking into this guy at random:
Hunter Prey is a low budget sci-fi movie made in 2010 that borrows liberally from The Chronicles of Riddick Franchise. A ship transporting a dangerous prisoner crash lands on a harsh desert planet. The survivors must overcome the elements in order to bring in their escaped prey, but who exactly is the one being hunted?
Plays many of the conventional Space Opera tropes straight, right down to the Star-Warsey music.Hunter Prey provides examples of the following tropes:
Prey is a 2022 Predator film directed by Dan Trachtenberg and written by Patrick Aison.[1][2][3] The Walt Disney Company produced the project through their 20th Century Studios banner.[4] It follows Naru, a young Comanche healer in 1719 as she combats a Predator in the Northern Great Plains to protect her tribe. Prey holds no relation to the previous 2018 movie, The Predator, directed by Shane Black.
Set in the Comanche Nation 300 years ago, "Prey" is the story of a young woman, Naru, a fierce and highly skilled warrior. She has been raised in the shadow of some of the most legendary hunters who roam the Great Plains, so when danger threatens her camp, she sets out to protect her people. The prey she stalks, and ultimately confronts, turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator with a technically advance arsenal, resulting in a vicious and terrifying showdown between the two adversaries.[5]
In September of 1719, somewhere across the Northern Great Plains of North America, Naru, a young Comanche woman trained as a healer, dreams of becoming a great hunter like her brother, Taabe. Naru herself is quite skilled in using a tomahawk as a thrown weapon. While tracking deer with her dog Sarii, she witnesses the arrival of a "thunderbird" in the sky (in reality a Predator ship dropping off a hunter), taking it as a sign that she is ready to prove herself. Taabe agrees to take her with him as he leads a search party for the mountain lion that attacked one of the tribe's hunters. They retrieve their wounded tribe member and depart, the mountain lion having apparently been spooked off by an unknown stalker that follows and observes the hunters while collecting the skulls of several local predatory species. Taabe however stays behind to find the mountain lion and complete the hunt.
Naru circles back and finds Taabe. She manages to trap the lion but falls and strikes her head after being distracted by a burst of light. Taabe carries her home and returns to finish off the weakened lion, a deed for which he is honored by the chieftain and the rest of the tribe. An envious Naru leaves home with Sarii in secret the next day to hunt; she comes across a herd of skinned bison. She prays briefly over the wasted carcasses, planting a totem on the head of the nearest one. Later, she spots a grizzly bear near the river below her vantage point on a cliff. When she tries to launch an arrow at the bear, her bow snaps, the noise alerting the grizzly. She is quickly cornered by the beast due to her lack of experience. She squeezes herself into a large thicket as the bear attacks. It is unable to reach her. Suddenly, she watches as the bear is overpowered and killed by her stalker. She catches a mere glimpse of the stalker as the blood showering down from the bear's corpse covers it. Fleeing in horror, she finds a pack of Comanche hunters sent to find and bring her home. The creature swiftly ambushes and kills them, and Naru tries to escape before her foot gets snagged in a metal fur trap. The creature, seeing that she is no longer a threat, leaves.
French voyageurs, who were the ones responsible for skinning the bison of their pelts, find Naru and cage her, ordering their translator, Raphael Adolini, to question her about the creature. When she refuses to talk, the lead voyageur reveals that he has Taabe captive as well and tortures him before tying both siblings up as bait for the predator. The creature, using its advanced weaponry, kills most of the voyageurs while Taabe and Naru escape. Naru rescues Sarii from the voyageurs' camp and stumbles across a dying Raphael, who teaches her how to use his flintlock pistol in exchange for medical treatment. Naru gives him a medicinal flower to staunch the bleeding from his wounds, and inadvertently discovers that doing so also reduces a person's body heat, making it difficult for the creature to see one's heat signature.
The creature fails to see Raphael with its thermal vision, but finds and kills him when he makes a noise, before Taabe comes in on horseback to assist Naru. The siblings are able to weaken the creature before it uses its invisibility cloak to hide and sneak up on Taabe, stabbing him through the back. Naru flees into the woods and finds the surviving lead voyageur, who had previously tortured Taabe, collecting water. She knocks him out, severs his legs, and gives him an unloaded gun before eating the orange flower to hide her heat signature, baiting the creature to kill the voyageur. She uses Raphael's pistol to ambush the predator from behind as it revels in its kill, knocking the creature's mask off and stealing it, and runs deep into the woods to prepare for a final showdown.
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