The Prey: Legend of Karnoctus

I watched this because Danny Trejo was prominent on the poster. Do not be fooled as I was. He is in a few, brief scenes early on and then disappears for the rest of the movie.

The movie starts with some Afghan guys in a cave somewhere doing...something. Making drugs? They get killed by a monster. Then it cuts to some unspecific special forces black ops guys planning a very vague heist to steal...something. Gold I think. They are planning on hiding it in a cave. Coincidentally, it's the same cave. Then we cut to a group of soldiers in a village...somewhere doing...something who are then ambushed by...someone for...some reason. They take shelter in a cave which is, coincidentally, the same cave again. I guess the special forces black ops guys were going to hide their loot in a cave right by a village for some reason. The entrance is caved in and they are trapped with the monster...whatever it's supposed to be.

This movie is pretty bad. There are a couple of decent B movie veterans but most of the actors are pretty terrible. Most of them are not at all believable as soldiers. They scream, run around and randomly point their rifles at each other in a way that would get them kicked out of a local gun range. Most of the characters seem to have never heard of things like discipline or chain of command. One has multiple neurotic meltdowns and no one says a word. There is a part where people are hallucinating for some reason. Then it's just kind of dropped. It doesn't really serve any purpose but to pad the running time. The creature is only seen in glimpses early on. They should have stuck with that because it looks like crap. Once the monster starts attacking, it's just a pile of monster movie cliches until the cliche ending. It's not the worst thing ever but there are lots of better monster movies out there.

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.

Boy this movie dragged on...awful acting..semi decent monster, but the worst acting ever! I wouldn't pay $2 to watch this again! Heck you couldn't pay me to watch this dreck.. precede with caution!

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.