This week saw the official release of Prey, the latest Predator movie and a film with major ties to the series, despite being set three hundred years in the past. The film has also made history for the series in another big way, it’s the best reviewed movie in the entire Predator franchise. Sitting at a 92% rating and a “Certified Fresh” distinction on Rotten Tomatoes, Prey is far and away the biggest critical success in the Predator series, even beating out the Arnold Schwarzenegger-starring original film by a big margin. Here’s how its score and consensus compares to the others in the series:
With the arrival of Prey many fans were worried that the film, technically a production and release from The Walt Disney Company, would be watered down and feature little of the franchise’s trademark violence. Director Dan Trachtenberg previously revealed to ComicBook.com that this was never an actual worry for the production at all.
“The Disney thing did not affect the movie at all in terms of its content,” the 10 Cloverfield Lane director confirmed earlier this year. “That’s why I’m excited for this trailer to come out. And for people who were worried that was this gonna be PG-13, or was it gonna be ‘Disney-Made-Predator.’ It was a 20th Century movie throughout the entire experience. And then Disney has been awesome in receiving the reins of it and now delivering it out into the world, but there was never any mandate from them. I was terrified of some of the wording we had in the script and when they read it, I was like, ‘Oh no, are they gonna freak out over the descriptions of gore and stuff?’ But, no. It is a brutal, intense, very R-rated movie. And I’m excited for that to be dispelled, that Disney’s gonna do ‘Disney Things.'”
Prey stars Amber Midthunder (The Ice Road, Roswell, New Mexico), Dakota Beavers, Stormee Kipp (Sooyii), Michelle Thrush (The Journey Home), and Julian Black Antelope (Tribal). It’s not streaming on Hulu.
