Deadliest Prey

'Citizen Kane'? Please... This is real motion picture artistry.Eagle-eyed connoisseurs of culturally significant and generation-defining cinema will notice that this isn't a stand-alone title, but a sequel to an equally life-changing juggernaut of movie gold: Deadly Prey.Our protagonist, Mike Danton, is back and 'deadlier' than ever. Danton's character leaps from the screen and grips your soul right before punching through your gut and pulling out your spine all while you ask for more.Ted Prior's portrayal of the terribly flawed but savagely pure hero from the original Deadly Prey seems eerily natural until you dig more deeply in to his granular past. Growing up on the unforgiving streets of Chugwater, Wyoming, Prior spent his youth working the land and protecting his fatherless family from the constantly marauding gangs of frontier thugs that plagued the barren plains surrounding the humble mining town of Chugwater until the calming influence of social media would banish them to their parents' basements forever. When he wasn't coarsening his hands with the salt of the earth and standing watch over his siblings and single, prostitute mother he would occupy his spare time with wrestling buffalo and pullin' strange at the local watering hole (the famed/notorious Chugwater Stampede).*Little known fact: Wendall the Elk - whose head and majestic rack sits proudly upon a bone-carved mount over the Chugwater Soda Fountain - was singlehandedly handed its last breath by the bare hands of Mr. Prior, himself, one night as they met face-to-face on Main Street in Chugwater after a night of bacchanalian savagery at the Chugwater Stampede. Neither would give way and only one would see the rising of the sun the next morning.*Clearly, Prior brings his raw upbringing to bear in his roles as Mike Danton and the Deadly Prey franchise.Go ahead and pay for the whole seat, folks. But I can assure you....you'll only use the edge.7 stars out of 5.I'd rate it 8 but I didn't like his haircut in this sequel

This review is for Deadliest Prey [2015 Blu-Ray] just in case there are review combinations in the future.Honestly, I don't even know what I watched. I even waited a day to digest what exactly just happened. Deadliest Prey, the sequel/remake of  Deadly Prey , feels like a parody.To address the elephant in the room, this movie is 99% identical to the 1987 prequel. Even the actors in the special features are a bit confused whether this is supposed to be a sequel or a remake. The plot features the villain from Deadly Prey being released from prison, only to recreate his cat-and-mouse hunt of the main character in an attempt to prove he is the superior soldier. This leads to identical beat-for-beat scenes compared to the '87 Deadly Prey, only the actors are much older. I don't even know if this was lazy scriptwriting or just genius.The production values of Deadliest Prey are better than '87 Deadly Prey in some areas, and much much worse in others. Modern HD cameras were obviously used, so the picture quality is quite high barring the occasional bad lighting and special effects but the sound design is terrible. While I previously complained about how poor and muffled the audio quality was in '87  Deadly Prey [Blu-ray ], in this case everything is quite the opposite. We can hear in crystal clear fidelity every crunching leaf, random bird song, and hum of various air conditioners. Every single one of which is far too loud and hugely distracting when you are trying to follow the movie. The air conditioning hum is especially jarring when cutting to a new scene.So, is this movie a "so bad it is good" type B movie? Well... yes. The '87 Deadly Prey movie felt like an earnest attempt at a  First Blood  style action movie with limited budget, and while it had some very iconic moments it didn't often fall into the the realm of absurd. Deadliest Prey on the other hand, does. The actors no longer look or sound vaguely like soldiers, but rather random college kids that were pulled in from the street and dressed in camo. The action scenes are no longer high intensity, but rather seem almost comically geriatric due to the way they were shot. A huge plot point in this movie features a trio of "hackers" who seemingly do nothing but play video games on laptops in the middle of a kitchen, and then proceed to drive around in an old compact car trying to "help". I both hated and loved them.Why is my rating so low? Well, it's simply because I can't tell if this was bad on purpose. The lazy script, combined with poor actor choice, subpar audio mixing, almost bizarre editing and cheap special effects combine into something special. It's just a shame I've already seen 99% of it in another movie.All that said, I can't recommend this to the general public, only B movie lovers. Deadliest Prey is in a catch-22 situation where to fully appreciate how good/bad it is, you have to watch Deadly Prey. But once you've done that, why watch Deadliest Prey?

Mike Danton is god

A perfect follow up to Deadly Prey, one of the best bad movies of all time. The levels of sincerity and joy here are hard to match, the best possible follow up to a fantastic B movie.