Touches You

Absolutely the worst movie.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

I have to admit, one of the most irritating points of this ridiculous film was the fact that in Africa the temperature soars to 105 (and that's on a pleasant day), however as the family is locked in the jeep, not one of them has a bead of sweat on their foreheads plus their hair looks like they just walked out of a salon. I hate that. I was led to watch this movie after watching The Ghost and the Darkness, a movie I have watched every once in awhile since childhood. Supposedly this piece of garbage is based on the Tsavo man-eaters. Ummmm.... NOT. If you want to see an ACTUAL "based on a true story" film I invite you to watch The Ghost and the Darkness and feel the amazing suspense!

A woman and her step-kids trapped in a safari car in the territory of lions who soon make it their business to get at them. The plot sounds similar to Savage Harvest, which, while more over the top, still achieves much better what it sets out to do than Prey.PROS - The cinematography on these lions is on a level that even eclipses The Ghost and the Darkness (the quintessential lion film) at times. The lions' beauty is captured like it rarely is on film, and not once does anything about the lions look fake. If there is a reason to see this film, this is it.Real edge-of-your-seat stuff at times, and the climax is quite unexpected and satisfying.CONS - These characters seem to lack proper reason. When you're short on water and it rains, and you've got bottles, most people would try to fill the bottles with rainwater. Not these people. And the way they get into the mess is also one you can't really help but blame them for.In The Ghost and the Darkness, we really believed there was something about the lions that had them ravage the railroad construction site in Tsavo. In Prey, however, nothing is really preventing these lions from seeking other prey. A smart hungry lion would recognize that to just wait around a jeep is not a good idea.Shaky camera. It works in certain forms of cinema, but not here. The filmwork on the lions often suffers due to the hand-held camera, because it goes all over the place. Thankfully these moments are the exception rather than the rule. No, the foremost problem is...The death scenes are completely unrealistic. Here, The Ghost and the Darkness still wins out. Nothing about the way the lions kill people in Prey looks even remotely believable. As in, splatters of blood splashing up from the ground as if someone popped a balloon full of red liquid. A victim's bloody hands scraping the car window when the lion is attacking him from behind. That kind of non-realistic.This makes Prey a pretty mismatched film. It has some exquisite lion filmwork, and some terribly cheesy scenes when we really need to believe in the lions' menace. 5 out of 10, purely for the cinematography, but if you want a good and thrilling movie about man-eating lions, see The Ghost and the Darkness. If you need an alternative to that, 1981's Savage Harvest is a reasonable choice.

True story or not (and I'm sure plenty of the facts are manipulated) There is nothing in Prey that we have not seen before. Its generic formula and a certain lack of credibility/scientific accuracy certainly do some damage but they don't make the movie unwatchable.It certainly could have been worse. For a start, it places a certain value on character, something that many b-movies care little for. There is no obvious reason why we should be rooting against the Newman family, who get screwed while on an African safari.. Their guide is attacked and killed by a lion while escorting the youngest Newman on a pee break. The hapless family is forced to hide and wait in the lousy little tour jeep, until Mr. Newman shows up (he's working construction on a local dam) Meanwhile, three hungry lions are waiting patiently outside.So the film doesn't have us disregarding the protagonists, that's a start. another advantage is the lions being real. There is no five cent CGI in this picture to distract us. Well, some of the blood is clearly digital, but most of it is make up. The movie does have it's share of gore, yet nothing too unrealistic or severely overdone. Prey is shot in a heavily saturated colour scheme and because blood is the only red in the film, it really stands out. (although it is certainly not the only film to try this). The acting quality is nothing to be proud of, but it suspends disbelief enough. As long as it doesn't sound like the characters are reading off a teleprompter, I'm fine with that.So where then does the movie go wrong, well in the same way that many of these films have, it has been done before. Prey is one in a million, and the only possible distinction for one to see is its protagonists being a lion, not a common creature feature creature. If lions sound interesting, my recommendation would be the Ghost in the Darkness.

While working in a dam in Africa, the American hydraulic engineer Tom Newman brings his family to spend a couple of days in the Leopard's Rest Lodge. His fourteen year-old daughter Jessica is having friction with her stepmother Amy since she does not accept the divorce of her parents. On the next morning, Amy, Jessica and her brother David go in a game drive with a ranger while Tom goes to the dam. While driving off-road, David asks the ranger to stop the jeep to go to the "toilet", and unexpectedly they are attacked by a group of starving lions that kill and eat the ranger. Amy, Jessica and David are trapped in the jeep and stalked by the wild lions. When Tom returns to the hotel and finds that his family has not returned from the game, he asks for help to the experienced hunter and guide Crawford and together they seek Tom's family. In-Crappy-Credible Thats All I Have To Say. I Was Indredibly Surprised To See This Was Not Darrell Roodt's First Movie. In All The Horror Movies I've Seen I Have Never Seen Something This Ridiculos. Lions Attacking Humans For The Fun Of It. At The End The Car They're In Explodes...Now The Children Were Safe With Their Father But The Mother Was Up & Close To The Car...Now The Last Time I Checked...Car Explosions Killed People...Am I Correct?...Thought I Was...The Stepmother Comes Out Of The Wreckage WITHOUT A SCRATCH OR BRUISE! This Deserves Its Rating Of 4.5 But This Deserves A Little Bottom 100 Treatment. How Can Anybody Call This A Scary Lion Movie? 'The Lion King' Was Scarier Than This. The Little Boy Needs Food Or Water Every 5 Minutes...From What I Remember As A Kid I Never Got That Dehydrated That Quickly. In The Middle Of The Film They Have The Chance To Leave...The Stepmother Does Not Go Up The Mountain Where They Came But She Goes Further Down The Mountain. I Don't Mind Horror Movies Just As Long As They Are Done Good...& This Movie Failed That.