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Prooi (2016)

Thriller | 110 minutes
2,48 538 votes

Genre: Thriller / Comedy

Duration: 110 minuten

Alternative titles: Prey / Uncaged

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Dick Maas

Stars: Sophie van Winden, Julian Looman and Rienus Krul

IMDb score: 5,3 (3.031)

Releasedate: 13 October 2016

Prooi plot

"On the loose... and he's hungry."

After the discovery of a gruesomely murdered farming family just outside Amsterdam, the police are left in the dark about the possible perpetrator. Lizzy, an Artis vet, thinks she knows what could have caused the bloody mutilations: a hefty, aggressive lion. Most of all, she is met with disbelief, and it takes a second massacre before the authorities agree to an English lion hunter's rigorous plan to capture the monster. The hunt is on…

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coumi

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Many make the mistake of taking Prey a little too seriously, which is not the intention. The man who previously gave us murderous elevators, wickedly holy men and antisocial families conquering the USA apparently still refers to the AH when people look for a message in his films. Prey is another creepy children's film for adults who just don't want to grow up. Creatively it disappoints, but I had a lot of fun with this somewhat poor pulp. Maas, who unfortunately still doesn't know that you won't fall from the world when you leave Amsterdam, just delivers a lesser version of Amsterdamned here. The deformed killer of that time has been replaced by a lion, locations have been changed from water to park or from boat to tram and so on and so on... Once every few years, a movie like this is quite entertaining, although it's disappointing that the Dick appears to be dehydrated. Bad for example to come up with some completely unbelievable surprises at the end, unacceptable even in the wonderful world of Maas.
And the actors don't cooperate either. Sophie is stunning but comes across as a very grumpy bitch, Looman looks a bit like a younger Adam Curry who can't act, Frost is an older, corpulent version of Hugh Grant who continues to be funny even when his body parts are amputated. To top it all off, there is a second captain Ahab on board in the form of Victor Löw. A player suffering from chronic overacting who seems to want to bring down the entire film with his terribly exaggerated bit part (a role as a parody in a film that already looks like a parody in itself does not work).
So a few misses this time, but Maas can be forgiven if he only waits until at least 20121 before dropping his next variant on the same theme in the cinemas (idea: a horror clown who looks like mom Flodder murdering through an all-too-familiar capital ?).

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Ebenezer Scrooge

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Roared with laughter, at that fake lion. You can't come up with this, can you? All extra wry because you know that Dick Maas can do much better than this. That human versus dangerous animal theme has also been done many times and has become obsolete. In any case, our sympathy is now closer to animals than to humans. That's why it didn't bother me at all. Those battered corpses looked well made. And always those forests in the picture. Is this some sort of veiled advertisement for the police? Join the police!, The police are your best comrade... something like that? That Vondel Park again.

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