Deadly Prey

1987 "In Vietnam, he was the best... He still is!"
5| 1h25m| R| en
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A group of sadistic mercenaries led by Col. John Hogan kidnap Michael Danton from his home, and set him loose on the grounds of their secret camp to be used as training for new recruits. Danton has been called the "most perfect killer ever." Now, he'll have to prove it again. This prey has become DEADLY!

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Scanialara You won't be disappointed!
Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
jhtsosa You'll never say die after viewing this movie! In Vietnam, Mike Danton was the best, and he still is (provided the bad guys line up to fight him one at a time). Want to see a man beaten to death with his own arm? You're a liar if you say no! Watch it now or risk some bad timing. Watching this movie is like being on the winning side, it's a lot healthier. I'm a little man who's spent 27 years of his life as a film enthusiast searching for a great movie. 27 years in the filth and dirt of the streets and there ain't no music down there. Finally, I found a movie so manly it just could not be denied. So summon up some spit cleaned earthworms and flame cooked rats, hunker down and watch Deadly Prey today! End of Story.
drystyx Cameron Mitchell once played in many good films, usually as a fourth or fifth character-Bombre, The Tall Men, Garden of Evil, usually WEsterns.He's the epitome of the actor whose career went into low tide with cheap thrillers. Not all of them were bad, but they weren't "great" by any means.Here, he plummets to the lowest depths.The movie is hard to describe as anything other than a "so bad it's good" film. One can't imagine this film being made for any other reason. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, and say they made this film to be funny.But it it's not very funny.We have what could have been a good idea. "The Most Dangerous Game", only the idea is made ridiculous by not having any sport. A mad man who thinks he's a mercenary for hire, trains his unit by kidnapping men, and telling them to run away unarmed from his well armed mercenaries.Much of the humor comes from the fact that these super mercenaries, though heavily armed, are totally inept at killing any unarmed helpless victim, not because of "scruples", but because of ineptness.Full of clichés, the movie become super tiresome after nearly an hour of tedious neck breaks and knife thrusts. It can only be classified as comedy, but it just isn't funny after the third time. And it seems we have this for about five million times. It's a "fast forward or go to sleep" movie.
Count_Elvis_III Ask a group of people what the best movie ever made is, and you'll get a lot of different answers. Some will say "Star Wars", some "Citizen Kane", some "Taxi Driver" while others will say "The 400 Blows". They are all wrong, because the best movie ever made in "Deadly Prey". Now some, particularly the losers who like "Citizen Kane" will disagree with this, but much like the crowd that crucified Jesus, they know not what they do. Anyway, "Deadly Prey" is super-duper neato because it has all the elements a classic movie should have like scalping, arms being cut off, lots of shootings, stabbings, a guy fighting a tank, a guy getting a hand grenade in his pants and other such goodies. It also has Ted Prior in the role of Mike Danton, who as the film's tagline tells us was not only the best in Vietnam, but also remains the best. He was truly robbed at Oscar time, as this is not only the finest performance of the 1980's, but also of all movies ever made. He is boss and so is Cameron Mitchell. Cameron Mitchell plays this old cop who is able to infiltrate a militia camp without being caught. This movie is also a great mystery as we are never told why exactly all this is happening. I like that, as I hate when movies feel the need to spell everything out for the audience. Thankfully "Deadly Prey" has far more respect for the intelligence of its audience and that's why it is boss. Seriously, this film is totally groovy from the first frame to the last frame and if you don't like it then you are stupid. I know it sounds harsh, but it's also true, so there.
Glen McCulla This film was, when i was about fifteen years old, without a shadow of a doubt the best film ever made in the whole of time. And it still is.Mike Danton is an ex-commando hardman who is retired to a quiet suburban life. His day starts off quite normally, putting out the bins for his wife. But to be kidnapped by a gang of armed men, bundled into the back of a van, and released into the woods to be hunted down as a human target for a gang of wannabe mercenaries? Whilst putting out the bins? Nobody expects that.Thankfully, our Mike hasn't forgotten his years of training to be a B-list Rambo, and proves to be quite a Hard Target for his enemies. He's no meek quarry: he is DEADLY PREY!!! Amongst such hilarious shenanigans as achieving invisibility by hiding up a tree draped in a couple of leaves, and slicing of a guy's arm with a machete and beating him with said sliced appendage (with the wet end), Danton tracks down the evil Colonel responsible for his ordeal, a Colonel who by the caprice of fate is the very man who trained him with these superb abilities to survive.Another twist has Mike's father-in-law (played by sleaze veteran Cameron Mitchell), an ex-cop, try to track down Mike and the guys who snatched him.Don't think about the plot too much, just pull on some cut-off denims, smear your face with muck like a commando as we did when young, and howl at the sky just like Mike Danton in the poster. We all have an inner Danton. Let him loose. I know mine. I trained him.See also: Commando, Hard Target (but this is miles better than either)