The movie starts with a comanche girl trying to prove herself she is ready to hunt. Along with her dog she almost caught a deer but it got away. After a predator is seen descending to the forest. The tribe go in search of a missing tribe member. They found him further ahead injured so they help him and carry him back home. Taabe the older brother goes after the lion that attacked their villager. Naru, the comanche girl, is a great tracker and found out unknown animal tarcks so she knew that her brother could be in trouble so went back to warned him. She found out they were already tracking the lion. After being attacked Naru fell unconscious and her brother carry her back home. Later Taabe came back with the body of the dead lion he had defeated and everyone celebrated.
But Naru knew there was something else out there alot more dangerous than the lion. She told her brother to go together to find it but he refused. The next day she decided to go out and trained her hunting skills. After successfully hunting several rabbits she decided to go after the unknown creature. But the Predator was already tracking her. When she try to hunt a bear she failed and almost got eaten by the bear. But the Predator came to kill the bear and she manages to escape on time. She was later found by members of her tribe send by hee brother to look for her. She warned them about the creature but didn't believe her. Not until they all confronted the creature together. They all fought him and injured him but he still killed them all. The Predator defeated them all by himself. Naru kept trying to escape and was found by another tribe member that was also killed. She kept running until she was caught in a trap by French Trappers. They wanted to know more about the creature. They had already trapped her brother Taabe. Since she refused They used Naru and Tabe as bait for the Predator. Naru realized the creature hadn't killed her before because it didn't believe she was a threat. It like to hunt what he believed could be threats. So the Predator didn't went after them but instead fornthe Trappers. The Predator fought and defeated the French Trappers by using all his skills and gadgets. While he fought them Naru and Taabe managed to escape.
Naru went back to rescue her dog and had to killed the remaining Trappers to do it. Taabe went to steal a horse. While healing a Trapper that teach her how to use the powder gun the Predator arrives. Naru notices it can't see him because he was cold. He still kills him because the Trapper screamed when he stepped on him. When the Predator is about to kill her dog, her brother comes on a horse and hits him on the head which removes the Predator helmet. They fought him together and manage to injured it more but Taabo ends up dying. He told her that she would be the one to defeat him. Again Naru managed to survived because she wasn't considered a threat. Naru prepared herself to fight the Predator and avenge her brother. She captured a Trapper to use him as bait. Then she ate the plant that made her blood cold. She waited until he killed the Trapper to shot him on the back of the head and removed his hemlet. Then she run an hid on the trees and jump him by surprised. Even used the Predator own weapon to cut his arm. With the help of her Dog she managed to survived and continued fighting him. She trapped him on the Quicksand and then she used his own helmet to make it killed the Predator. At the end she cut his head as a Trophy and returned to her village. She warned her people of the Trappers so they had to move to safer lands. Everyone saw her with respect for killing the creature and returning alive after her fights.
This movie released on a Hulu & Disney+ streaming service. It received a lot of good reviews. Many liked the script, cast, picture, female empowerment and the culture presentation. Honestly, it was a great movie. The characters development was accurate. The tension build up and realism made a greater impact on the movie. There were so much details that took us back to that era. It was a great movie but maybe some exaggerated it a bit. I did like the locations, plot and cast. But maybe it was a bit rushed. It didn't ruin the experience but maybe they could have elaborated on some parts at least a little bit more. It was nice seeing how the protagonist Naru, learned from her mistakes and kept improvingherself. At the beginning she was a great tracker but a bad hunter. But as the movie progress we saw how she kept improving little by little. Up until the end on which the inexperienced hunter end up defeating the best hunter they knew. The dog companion was great. It is usually a torture to see a dog on a movie because they usually kill them. But not on this movie and they even made the dog an important part of the movie. Now this movie is supposed to occurred 300 years before the original Predators movies. We didn't saw much of how or why he chose this planet. But it seems it was a Predator that was just having fun. As if he just chose that place to hunt them for fun without any specific reason. Also, didn't have the full gadgets as the others but still had many similar weapons. Now I realize there were to versions. The original English movie and the dub Comanche language. Not sure which one I watch. I read that the original movie was meant to be watch in the comanche language. When Fox was acquired by Disney they made the original language of the movie English. But the original script drafts were in comanche. Still today most of the production members and the cast recommended watching it in the comanche language for a more inmerverse experience. So Im not sure on which version I watched it but I noticed as if the movie was dubbed. Sometimes the voice seemed as if it didn't match the picture. Or maybe it was the way they acted, still not sure.
Overall, I really enjoyed the movie. I wouldn't put it at the level some said it was but it was good. I will rate it 8.0. Definitely recommended, a must watch. The level of details, character development, suspense, action scenes made it a quality production.
Rating: 8.0
