Matthew R. Reis: Film and TV Critic

Pray for me Blog exclusive! I rented “Prey” for free yesterday thanks to a Redbox Play Pass coupon I received. This isn’t a review of the entire game since I only rented it for a single night ($3 game rentals are rip-offs!) Small sample size aside, I came away mightily impressed by Arkane Studios’ reboot of the original “Prey” (2006) . Set in 2035, Morgan Yu (the protagonist) awakens inside a posh San Francisco apartment. Life is good, he or she (you choose which gender to play as) is a surefire one-percenter, but something’s afoot. A glitch reveals that Morgan’s inside a partially simulated environment and has had a memory wipe. It’s the player’s job to break out. Once outside the confines of the fake apartment, you realize that you’re onboard the Talos 1 Space Station. The crew aboard the space station had been studying a dangerous species of alien called the Typhon ( derived from Greek Mythology , meaning a giant, deadly monstrosity) for years. The hope was that the coll...

Don't go looking for things you don't want to know the answer to... 3 1/2 stars Blog Exclusive! I didn't get to writing a full review of Prometheus, but maybe I will post one later this month. It's been out for a little while now and I definitely would describe it as a must see picture. It sits nicely with the other Alien flicks, despite being more of a stand-alone picture than a true prequel. I'd rank it 3rd behind Alien and Aliens as the best in the franchise. One issue people may have with the flick is that each character other than Shaw played by Noomi Rapace and David the Android (Michael Fassbender) are more filler then substance. You don't really relate to anyone and you don't learn there names (or I could have just forgotten them...). Of course being that it's a Ridley Scott flick the visuals are top-notch and the mood is very somber, very noir. While the individual elements don't stick out as much as they should the movie is memorable ...