It truly is shocking that there was a less than fastidious deconstruction of the cultural agenda of a crappy sci-fi flick from the team that brought you Space Cop and Gorilla Interrupted.
Fine, lemme put it this way. Since Mike and Jay are so fond of rewriting movies, let's try this:
The story opens opens on a girl who is contrasted with her brother being a hunter. Montage of her growing up, her brother being seen with a mentor while she's relegated to camp. She watches as the hunting parties head out each day, her brother included. But being in camp she learns different skills, how to cook food properly, how to properly handle a cooking knife, how to fix up clothing. That kind of thing, she has an eye for details.
Cue to her waiting for the hunting parties to return one evening. The tribe welcome back the hunters but one is missing. Her brother and mentor make a note of it and vow to go look in the morning. Strange sounds are heard throughout the night and by morning the hunting parties go in groups. The atmosphere around the tribe has turned anxious and by evening, one entire group is missing. Mentor and brother are stoic faced as they found the remains of the missing hunter desecrated on a tree.
Something is hunting them.
The Elder makes the decision, move west from the encampment they have set up. They're camped at the edge of the Colorado plains being Comanche so they'll head into the Rockies in the hopes of escaping it. Through the night they pack camp and get little sleep to be ready to move by morning.
As the tribe start to move, the hunters are spaced out evenly. As night approaches, commotion at the back, screams and yells from the back of the caravan drive people forward in a panic. People get separated, brother and sister stay together but mentor goes back and tries to get people together. Night falls and they find a small group huddled around a camp fire, mostly women and children. Mentor has not returned and tribe face unknown danger. Brother makes decision that sister should take small group north instead, around the mountains and try to contact friendly tribe.
Brother then hands her a discarded bow. Sister leaves. As she's out of camera shot, first reveal of predator. This one is determined to pick off every last person who escapes, has already killed off most of the caravan in the night including the Elder, most of the hunters and dragging Mentor's skull to show Brother.
Brother loads up an arrow and fires but cracks against the visor of the predator's helmet. Brother is killed in gruesome fashion. Sister doesn't hear his death yell but assumes he's dead.
Cut to Sister, others in group are slowing her down. Get to a river and see the predator uncloaked behind her drenched in dry blood. Hear yell of bear nearby fishing in river. While her group is on the otherside of the river, urges them to run while she runs towards the bear. Grabs fish from water, snaps it drawing blood then throws it at Predator. Bear, sees her, sniffs air and charges after fresh fish and predator. Predator kills bear but sister escapes west into rockies. Notices that predator's mask is cracked after engagement with Brother.
Spends night climbing up to summit. Dawn breaking before the predator stands before her, realizes that she is the last of the worthy prey of the tribe. She dodges plasma blasts but gets throw up against a rock. Gets her bow, knocks it and launches a single arrow that goes through the cracked visor, headshot. Predator falls dramatically off cliff, probably dead.
It takes Sister a week or so to locate her tribe but when she retells her story, the remnants of her tribe believe her. They then merge with a sister tribe that take her on as a hunter, with her showing the predator's visor and claw as a trophy.
Fin.
The only way for a female to be a hunter among the Native Americans is if there's literally no other choice. I'm sick of stories that force in "Girl Boss" into historical settings like this, she gets absolutely no push back and the movie studios just expect the public to fucking buy it unearned. That's what my autism doesn't like.
). You have to take into account that them saying it's "okay" pretty much means just that, it's "okay". If this was a movie only in theaters, they probably would have said the same shit but wouldn't have recommended going out to see it because of the investment of going to the theater, paying 15-20 dollars for a ticket, etc. etc.
