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Yeah, Pray. It's as Woke as it gets without shoehorning trannies into the story (I might have seen an Indian who was kinda ambiguous looking...)
On a plus side: great scenery, and good action to be honest. Lacking in the fireworks of the previous ones for obvious reasons, but there is some musket and pistol action. What bothers me in these scenes when the injuns pull the bows, and they hold it like that without effort, seemingly capable of doing so indefinitely. I wish movie makers would stop doing that. When Legolas and the rest of the elves do it, it is still bad, but that's just LotR, maybe elves can be superstrong when handling bows, they put an extra point in the longbow specialization.
There are lotsa other stuff in this movie that made me cringe, details what I could tear apart. Like cutting the fish on a slab of stone. Why not use a piece of woods as cutting board? These people appreciated usable tools and preserving knife's edge (especially a stone one's...) would be a priority. And that yoyo axe (slim profiled stone tomahawk that never chips...)! Jesus. BUT. For all the discrepancies and small stuff that doesn't make sense in the previous movies they got a pass from me (not to mention the giant stuff in The Predator) so go hard on Prey for these, it would be unfair.
Other stuff liek... One could go into the gear of the Predator, is it good or bad that they changed them to a less advanced, but I have no real preference in this, and it's just they wanted to go with something different, it was unavoidable in previous installments too.
So the Woke stuff. Hero is a sassy PoC daughter of a single mom who outsmarts and outlives and outcompetes and out-outdoorsmans (she was so skilled in tracking they followed her) all her male peers in the tribe, who gets even with evil white cis males (rape was mentioned but not done) the mass murderers of buffaloes, who outlasts and outsmarts the Predator himself by figuring him out and his equipment as well. And the most important thing: it is a prequel. Which means it's not just a woman who kills a Predator, but she is in fact managed the first time in history to do so. Ladies: women were the first! Women can be more Man, then men themselves. Proofed.
The whole thing is set up that before that date, no predators arrived here (they show how the Predator starts to collect trophies, from snake, through wolf, to bear and arriving to men), and they connect the movie to Predator 2 with a particular trophy.
I enjoyed how the background of the end credits were like the scene separator graphics in the Tracker.
All in all, not a bad movie, in fact would be enjoyable if not the Woke agenda they'd try to jam down on our throat. Alien and Aliens are good examples that the stronk woman movie can be done well, but maybe it's just the political atmosphere that makes these insufferable these days.