Main cast: David Kross (Roman), Hanno Koffler (Albert), Maria Ehrich (Eva), Robert Finster (Peter), Yung Ngo (Vincent), Klaus Steinbacher (Stefan), Livia Matthes (Lisa), and Nellie Thalbach (Jenny)
Director: Thomas Sieben

Major spoilers are present in this review, although honestly, people that know the tropes will correctly guess most of the spoilers early on into their watching of this show.

Some movies are made to entertain, while others are made to be dumped onto Netflix. Prey, if you ask me, belongs to the second category.

A gang of friends take a hike in the woods. The only person among them that has any semblance of character is Roman, so he’s clearly going to live to the very end. Oh yes, people are going to die, because some lady, Eva, is tracking them down and sniping them dead one by one.

This movie shows flashbacks of Roman and his love Lisa canoodling by the beach. Why? It’s to show how perfect their love is in Roman’s eyes, so naturally, it’s not. Since Roman is here with his brother Albert, whom he bickers with often, gee, what a shock, snort, that Lisa turns out to be having an affair with Albert.

I don’t even want to ask where and how Eva learns to snipe like she’s from some anime show, because she’s a ridiculous character from the get go. She can take down men much bigger than hers without even getting a curl of hair out of place, and I think she can teleport or something because while she never runs, she seems to be always able to catch up with her running victims and even overtake them at times.

At the end, she and Roman fight it off, he grabs her gun from her, and she… jumps off a cliff to commit suicide. Uh, why? After making me through all her nonsense in this movie, the least she could do is to try to stab the hero or do some kung-fu stuff on him!

Oh, and these guys can stop to fight and argue over petty nonsense when they’re supposed to be on the run for their lives. That’s one way to tell me not to take the killer seriously, because these characters don’t seem to either.

Then there is that inn… whatever, with a working phone line, and these guys just run away from there like that. Again, why?

I think, even without the killer present, these imbeciles will likely get themselves killed all on their own anyway, considering how they have this tendency to make the worst decision possible for any and every situation.

This movie is a joyless, cliché-addled thing that seems to have been made only because all parties involved either need quick money or a means to launder some money, and they all know Netflix will take in any crap thrown its way.

Still, I guess I should say something nice, so… uh, the cast members are all easy on the eyes. Does that count?

At the rate shows like Prey keep crowding out Netflix’s catalog, that streaming service will be the biggest platform for money laundering in no time, if it hadn’t achieved that status already.