The Prey: Legend of Karnoctus

Well granted, I wasn't really harboring much of any particular high hopes for this 2022 movie titled "The Prey: Legend of Karnoctus", given the movie's synopsis and also because of the cast ensemble. But hey, I do believe in giving a movie a fair chance, and thus I opted to sit down and watch what writers Matthew Hensman and Gustavo Sainz de la Peña had to offer with this movie.

And just as I had expected, then it wasn't a whole lot of great storytelling or entertaining movie that was delivered here with "The Prey: Legend of Karnoctus". In fact, the storyline is pretty simplistic, almost to the point where it was becoming non-existing. So you're not in for an extraordinary cinematic experience if you opt to sit down and watch what directors Cire Hensman and Matthew Hensman dished out here.

The narrative is dull, especially since there isn't a whole lot of anything exciting happening throughout the majority of the movie. And watching American soldiers being trapped inside a cavern just hardly count as proper entertainment for me.

The movie didn't really have an impressive cast ensemble, with the majority of actors and actresses being all unfamiliar to me. But hey, at least that is something I enjoy in movies, as the performers aren't associated with other previously portrayed characters or roles. So at least that worked in favor of the movie. Just a shame that the actors and actresses literally had nothing to work with in terms of proper script, storyline, characters or dialogue.

"The Prey: Legend of Karnoctus" is a movie that came and went without leaving a lasting impression, much less actually managing to stand out. I do believe that come tomorrow, then I will already have forgotten about this movie entirely.

My rating of "The Prey: Legend of Karnoctus" lands on a very generous three out of ten stars.

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.

Yes, I watched the trailer and that's why I gave it the benefit of the doubt and at least gave it a 2. All you have to do is see the monster to know your kids would laugh at it before begging to turn it off.

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.

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.