I love a good B movie and this was firmly at the bottom end of the scale.
I should have known as soon as I saw Danny Trejo's name. He's the kiss of death for any film.
The dialogue is terrible. The opening scene to introduce us to the cast, is unbelievably bad. Some of the acting is sub-par. The effect aren't great... but somehow, if you take all that into consideration and know what you're going in to, it's bearable. There's just too much creeping through the caves whispering to each other and not hearing gunshots around the corner, despite being deep in a cave system.
I opened with 'the dialogue is terrible', but it's well worth enduring this film just to bear witness to Nick Chinlund perfectly delivering what might be the best action movie one-liner in cinema history, just before his climactic fight.
All in all, it's a fairly decent, low budget, monster flick, as long as you go into it knowing what to expect.
THE PREY: Legend of Karnoctus
2022
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Plot summary
A platoon of U.S. soldiers are ambushed by the Taliban becoming trapped in a cave of Afghanistan. As they make there way through the maze of tunnels to find a way out, they are hunted down by a deadly creature the locals call Karnoctus! The Predators have now become The Prey!
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Not great, but contains the best one liner in the history of cinema.
Danny Trejo, why do you do that.
The trailer alone reveals how bad the film is.
---------------------------------------------------------- Low budget with a cheap, embarrassing monster.
-------------------------------------------------------- There are bad actors that include a C-movie.
Expected it to be Crap -- and I Wasn't Disappointed!
There's a thread of a workable premise here, but the overall execution is completely flawed. Terrible acting. Ridiculous monster.
It's like a crappy, low-budget mashup of Three Kings and Predator -- but on the former flick's catering budget.
Plus, we have seen everything here before, and done better.
And what, was Adrian Paul passing through town and decided to "star" in a 2-minute, completely throwaway part? If so, where was Bruce Willis?
Sadly, this is hot garbage.
You have been warned.