Hunter Prey (2010)

The movie falls weirdly in between mystery and action genres. The story sure presents a nice intriguing basic premise. There are surprisingly good twists and turns in the story that makes it more interesting. It's too bad that the movie took too long in depicting the solace of the deserted planet and the solitude of both the soldier and the prisoner that it wasted much of the screen time duration. I practically skipped a few minutes while watching and still catches on to the whole story well. The dialog seems quite nice in portraying the conflicts. Yet that didn't really suffice to create a space epic movie when this movie has only a single location, low budget make-up and prosthetics, and stupid-looking props. The acting overall is just below standard. The ones in make-up and prosthetics got their faces stiff so bad that they don't express well on their faces. While the prisoner simply grins too much that it makes the movie look stupid.

It's hard to believe this only cost 450,000$. The Baha California settings help to no end. This is one of those independent movies that should be spread about as far and as wide as possible -- if only to show the world how good a movie you can make without a Hollywood studio to ruin it for you. If a studio had been involved -- this would suck of putrid political correctness drivel and garbage. Instead, it is very watchable and the use of Red One cameras makes it quite pleasing to the eye. None of the blued and fuzzy Hollywood studio practices pretending to be film work. If the budget here had been 1,000,000,000$ think of how much more could have been done!

I have never written a review here but thought this film really deserved all the attention it can get. It's one hell of a solid film; if you are a true sci-fi lover, you WILL love this! Definitely a good watch. It gave me a little feel of Earth II the series, although the story is nothing similar. The only reason this film probably never made it big is purely because they never used a "big name" star cast. Personally feel the actors did a perfect job. They need to find a way to promote this movie! Way more heart than the current movies popping out there. The plot I would say is more or less a "real" story, in the sense that, you would not go like "ah, that can only happen in a movie". To sum it down, the movie is not purely a sci-fi plot, so if you are not a pure sc-fi lover you would still be able to appreciate the movie to its fullest. The character reactions, spirit and cunningness are things you can relate to in real life. Perfect storytelling with limited resources!

This is a great little sci-fi short story about a solder chasing down a dangerous escaped prisoner.From the very start it is obvious the budget of this movie is very tight. But the production is handle with great skill and -most importantly- care. They obviously couldn't afford much in the way of set but instead of trying to recreate Mars from papier mache and dodgy cgi it has been shot on location in a desert somewhere, which works just fine.The makeup for the aliens is convincing which is where it counts for a character based movie.There is some action but the film is mainly about the two opposing solders and the motivations for their actions.If you have an hour or two to kill on a random Wednesday and you like Sci-fi and this comes up on TV go for it. This movie has a lot of heart but don't expect Avatar.