Watch: Prey 2024 123movies, Full Movie Online – A young couple is compelled to leave their Christian missionary station in the Kalahari Desert after being threatened with death by an extremist militant gang. After crashing their aircraft they must battle man and beast for their….
Plot: A young couple is compelled to leave their Christian missionary station in the Kalahari Desert after being threatened with death by an extremist militant gang. After crashing their aircraft they must battle man and beast for their lives.
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Could this really be the same Ryan Philippe who was in “Cruel Intentions”? Are things really that bad? Well now he’s “Andrew” who runs a Christian missionary deep in the Kalahari. Forced to flee, they engage the rather untrustworthy services of pilot “Grun” (Emile Hirsch) and next thing they are amidst some wreckage in the middle of a wild game reserve with loads of hungry lions, hyenas, scorpions and a few heavily armed freedom fighters. Can they survive? There are some beautiful animals featured in this film and the Californian Vasquez Rocks National Park serves well enough as a location double, but the rest of this is all really quite poorly written and executed before a denouement that I could have done with half an hour earlier. There’s nothing about the characters for us to care about, one being determined to smuggle artefacts out of the country whilst an other wants to indoctrinate the locals with a lifetime supply of bibles. Maybe he thought it was called “Pray” instead? It’s not exactly predicable, it’s not that structured – it sort of meanders along desperate to generate some sense of menace from it’s arid and hostile environment, but all to underwhelming avail. Nope, nothing at all to recommend this to anyone, sorry.
**_Survival in the Kalahari Desert, physical and spiritual_**A missionary couple in Africa (Ryan Phillippe and Mena Suvari) are forced to take a flight with a questionable bush pilot (Emile Hirsch). Unfortunately, they & several others end up stuck in the barren areas of Southwest Africa with plenty of lions and hyenas roaming about.
“Prey” (2024) was originally called “Kalahari,” but changed to the hackneyed “Prey.” The movie poster isn’t that far removed from the 2007 movie “Prey.” At heart, this is a modern take on “Sands of the Kalahari” and “Flight of the Pheonix” with a key element of “Conan the Barbarian” (1982) thrown in. While this is the least of ’em due to its low-budget, it works well enough for a slow-burn survival adventure wherein the gore is more implied than shoved in your face. I prefer it to the 2007 version of “Prey.”
There’s a factual error (the medical treatment of a particular wound), as well as a couple of seeming plot holes, but one of them can be easily explained on the grounds that a stray bullet struck the radiator of the jeep. A better explanation is that the jeep wasn’t even there since one of the Namibians said something about waiting for the jeep to come back, possibly with another vehicle to transport the prisoners. The other potential plot hole can also be explained with a little imagination. The writer/director isn’t obligated to spell everything out and respects the intelligence of viewers to put the pieces together.
This was the first time I’ve seen Hirsch play a bad boy and he’s convincing. I also liked the lowkey ideological struggle between good and evil, morality vs immorality, faith and atheism (or, at least, agnosticism), Christianity vs secular humanism. Speaking of which, it’s laughable that some people criticize the flick on the grounds of it being “Christian propaganda.” Two of the main characters are occupational missionaries, so it’s understood that God and faith will come up in a few of the dialogues. But, again, this is so light it’s hard to believe anyone would complain. The same came up in “The Grey,” but no one complained there.
As for a weather-related incident that occurs at the end, it doesn’t have to be attributed to a metaphysical source since freak things happen in the weather all the time. The film leaves you thinking about life’s heavy issues, like what’s your purpose? Is there a Creator? Is life a meaningless accident? Is there good and evil — ethical and unethical — or is everything relative? Is redemption possible for the morally compromised? Is there such a thing as self-sacrificial love (aka, agape)?
The movie runs 1 hour, 26 minutes, and was shot in the arid areas of the high country north of Los Angeles, such as SilverStrand Ranch, Castaic; Agua Dulce Movie Ranch; The Quarry in Semi Valley (for the sand sequence); MH Aviation in Lancaster; and Vasquez Rocks; as well as studio stuff done at Blackstone Entertainment, Azusa. A second unit filmed additional scenery and animals in South Africa, along with the use of stock footage.
GRADE: B-
I pray no one else is subjected to Prey.
Not a good movie. Im glad it was only an hour and a half and not longer… but it could have been better if it was shorter. Felt extremely low budget. The characters had no depth and there was absolutely no character development. Honestly it had the deel of a fan fiction film. Evert time the suspense started to build it fizzled out. Ryan Phillipe acted like he didn’t want to be there and Emile Hirsch tried but with a paper thin plot had no opportunity to develop. The survival aspect was non existent, the poachers never played out and the revels were embarrassing. Overall poorly done. I would only recommend this to my ex-mother-in-law and the politician I want out of office.
You have to prey to actually get through this movie!!!
This is terrible no action in it at all. Do t see any lions teeth so I don’t know why the cover shows them. This is the worst film I’ve ever seen I was preying that God would blow up my TV and get it off ???? abysmal from the start just no point to any of the characters. Very cheesy and just stupid. 1 star is far too many and the ending was absolute utter garbage I wanted them all just to die of the heat that would of been more exciting and more entertaining. It was trying to teach us more that God exsist than lions actually hunt. And there all bleeding but not a single vulture was in sight what a boring film.
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Director Mukunda Michael Dewil
Writer Mukunda Michael Dewil
Actors Ryan Phillippe, Emile Hirsch, Mena Suvari
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