![]() ![]() “Luck” looks amazing, especially once Sam and Bob pass through a portal into the lands of luck. When Sam follows Bob, she discovers entire magical realms that generate good and bad luck - and she figures if she can get her hands on a lucky penny from the Good Luck realm, she can turn her whole life around. ![]() Eva Noblezada voices Sam, a chronically unlucky human who has a chance encounter with a mystically powered cat named Bob (Simon Pegg). The production company Skydance makes its first foray into animation with “Luck,” a family-friendly comic fantasy directed by Peggy Holmes and shepherded in part by former Pixar boss John Lasseter. Once Naru gets a glimpse of her true enemy - during a thrilling sequence that also sees her dashing through a creek and dodging a bear - she quickly has to learn how the alien operates so she can find its weakness and protect her tribe. “Prey” is set 300 years ago on colonial America’s Great Plains and has as its hero the underdog of all underdogs: a Comanche warrior named Naru (Amber Midthunder), who has only a few primitive weapons to use against the Predator’s high-tech armory.Īfter just a little bit of setup - establishing that Naru likes to hunt and fight - “Prey” gets straight to the action, as the heavily camouflaged Predator starts tracking and killing in ways that initially suggest maybe a ferocious animal or some local French trappers are to blame. ![]() The prequel “Prey” is the franchise’s best installment since the first, because director Dan Trachtenberg and screenwriter Patrick Aison seem to understand that what makes a “Predator” picture exciting is watching grossly overmatched humans figure out how to stop the unstoppable. Later films (and comics, novels and video games) have expanded the mythology surrounding the Predator species itself, but the core of each of these stories has always been the battle of wits and strength between an alien monster and the people it’s trying to kill. The original 1987 “Predator” movie is sublimely simple, stripping down a science-fiction and action premise to its rawest elements, with just a grizzled band of military commandos squaring off against a super-strong, heavily equipped hunter from outer space. ![]()
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