Prey

 A new Predator movie!  Let's hope it isn`t as bad as the previous ones we got, because face it, after the intitial two it went seriously downhill for our alpha hunter's franchise.

But the opinions I saw on this one looked promising, with a return to the feel of the very first original starring "Arnie" himself.

The setting seems odd though, as we are on the Great Northern Planes all the way back in 1719.  Here, a native american tribe is preparing to hunt a mountain lion as a rite of passage for their hunters and elect the new warchief.

Naru is a young girl trained as a healer, but she wants to become a hunter like her brother Taabe.  One day, she sees a sign, as a firebird breaks through the clouds.  This is actually the landing of the Predator drop off vessel, and as they are out after the lion she sees lightning amongst the trees.  

As she later roams the forests, she finds a herd of skinned buffalo, and says prayers.  However, a grizzly bear attacks and she escapes as it is killed by the camouflaged Predator.  French voyageurs capture her, and she learns they are out hunting the hunter, using her and her also captured brother as bait.  A slaughter amongst the french follows, and in the camp her brother sacrifices himself so she can flee.

Having caught the french leader, she uses him as bait now, drawing out the Predator who after killing him turns his sights on her.  But she made a trap using his own marker device, resulting in the Predator killing himself by using his guided arrows, and making her the new war chief of the village.  

The end credits do hint at a return in force of the Predators, but as we know from the franchise, if a hunter falls he is not avenged en masse, but just deemed unworthy and left behind, so don`t get hopes up on a sequel in this era.

But yes, it was a good movie, indeed giving off the desperate feel of the first movie.  The only big difference of course being we now all know what a Predator is, something that wasn`t revealed in that classic until about 3/4ths in.  But yup, it is worth the watch for sure!