It's a credit to 1987's original "Predator" that 35 years later, we're still dealing with "Predator" movies at all. Since that musclebound, Schwarzenegger-kissed piece of '80s action excellence, there have been three follow-ups and two crossover "Alien vs. Predator" entries, and you'd be hard-pressed to remember a single thing about any of them.
Now comes "Prey," which takes the bones of the original "Predator" and sets the story in the 1700s Comanche Nation. It's a lean take on the "Predator" myth, boiling the story down to its human vs. monster essentials, and if it's the best entry in the series since the first, well, we've already established that as faint praise.
Amber Midthunder ("The Ice Road") stars as Naru, a young warrior who longs to be taken seriously by the members of her tribe but is not because of the same-as-they-ever-were gender politics of the day. Dakota Beavers is Taabe, her brother, who basically tells her to step aside while the big boys go hunting. Naru aims to not only prove herself worthy, but as the superior hunter overall.
