2022 · thriller · action · sci-fi
Prey
Directed by Dan Trachtenberg1h 40m2022
When danger threatens her camp, the fierce and highly skilled Comanche warrior Naru sets out to protect her people. But the prey she stalks turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator with a technically advanced arsenal.
Our read: Prey (2022) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive thriller · action · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme thriller / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- cold
- twisty
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