At 1:20:33 Big Beard appears without his right leg. Later (1:23:44), that leg appears on the screen but at 1:23:49 and seen from the opposite side, it is a LEFT leg.
When Naru is using one of the fur traders as bait, the Predator's weapon had previously cut his right leg off above the knee (1:20:33). From the Predator's heat vision point of view, he is on stomach, and his right leg and foot are there but his left leg isn't (1:23:49).
At 1:16:00 on the Frenchmen's campground there is a fight scene between Predator, Taabe, and Naru.
When Taabe is stabbed by the Predator in front of Naru there is blood splatter across the right side of her face. In the next few shots there is no additional blood splatter. A few shots later, she once again has the blood splatter all across the right side of her face.
When Taabe is stabbed by the Predator in front of Naru there is blood splatter across the right side of her face. In the next few shots there is no additional blood splatter. A few shots later, she once again has the blood splatter all across the right side of her face.
Taabe is sliced from upper left arm to lower right arm by his captors. When he fights the predator he has no open wound.
At the 29:35 mark, the unstrung bow at Naru's right shoulder disappears when she's seen from behind..
At 23:00 the mountain lion roars. Mountain lions can't roar. They scream.
There are no scavengers feasting on the field of dead, skinned buffalo. No crows, vultures, coyotes, wolves, bears, ad infinitum.
One of the white men hobbles back to camp with his lower leg completely severed. He would have bled out and died long before making it there. Even if the Predator's weapon stopped the bleeding while embedded in the wound, once Naru removed it there would be nothing stopping the bleeding and he would have died then.
Arteries have sphincter muscular layers which will spasm and slow the bleeding. The Predator's weapon stopped the bleeding just long enough for clotting to begin and Naru fed him the orange flower that slowed the bleeding also. All that aside, he would have bled out eventually as the blood trail shows a lot of blood loss.
Arteries have sphincter muscular layers which will spasm and slow the bleeding. The Predator's weapon stopped the bleeding just long enough for clotting to begin and Naru fed him the orange flower that slowed the bleeding also. All that aside, he would have bled out eventually as the blood trail shows a lot of blood loss.
A stone axe (tomahawk) would probably not be thrown, as they were considerably more breakable than later versions of iron or steel. Blunt war-clubs were more commonly used in combat, prior to trading with Europeans for steel axe-heads.
She wasn't a warrior, she had no steel axe-heads and a war club is of no use for gathering roots. She learned to throw it in the same manner as the Chinese peasants learned to use their farming tools as weapons.
She wasn't a warrior, she had no steel axe-heads and a war club is of no use for gathering roots. She learned to throw it in the same manner as the Chinese peasants learned to use their farming tools as weapons.
The name plate on the 1715 Raphael Adolini gun has a different shape than the one in Predator 2 (1990).
There's no telling what changes or improvements the gun may have undergone in the hundreds of years that it was in Predator hands. It could possibly shoot laser blasts now. Lt. Harrigan hasn't reported back.
There is nothing to indicate this is the same firearm as the one in Predator 2 or Alien vs. Predator. At the end of the movie, the flintlock is in the tribal chieftain's possession, not the Predators.
There's no telling what changes or improvements the gun may have undergone in the hundreds of years that it was in Predator hands. It could possibly shoot laser blasts now. Lt. Harrigan hasn't reported back.
There is nothing to indicate this is the same firearm as the one in Predator 2 or Alien vs. Predator. At the end of the movie, the flintlock is in the tribal chieftain's possession, not the Predators.
One of the white men plays dead and the Predator cannot see him because Naru gave him medicine that lowers his body temperature. Hypothermia sets in when the body's temperature drops below 95° F (35° C). The body temperature would need to be well below that in order to make him invisible to the Predator. Naru later takes the medicine herself to battle the Predator without it being able to see her. Symptoms of hypothermia include shivering, slurred speech, shallow breathing, a weak pulse, clumsiness or lack of coordination, drowsiness, confusion, and loss of consciousness. She would be in no condition to engage in combat if her body temperature was that low.
Yet a coating of mud works, indicating the Predator's visibility threshold is somewhat higher than 95° F (35° C).
Yet a coating of mud works, indicating the Predator's visibility threshold is somewhat higher than 95° F (35° C).
Some viewers thought that when Naru finds the killed buffalo herd she picks up and sniffs a shell casing, one hundred years before they were invented. She actually picks up a half-smoked cigar.
Seeing the red dots on the warrior's forehead Naru knows he is about to be shot, but this is not possible as she had never seen the dots before. They were obscured from her view when the Predator has earlier used his lasers.
Perhaps not so obscured. She watched the from behind the fallen tree and could well have seen enough to know the dots were caused by the "monster".
Perhaps not so obscured. She watched the from behind the fallen tree and could well have seen enough to know the dots were caused by the "monster".
Around 50mins into the movie, shortly after Wasape ties Naru's wrists together, the group encounters the Predator for the first time. During the fight, Naru scrambles to Wasape's body to recover her tomahawk and to cut herself loose. At the point where Naru picks up the tomahawk, Naru has her wrists together, but they are no longer tied. Naru then motions as if to slice through the rope, however there is no rope in place.
Living in a tribe of hunter-gatherers 300 years ago, Naru would not have shaved her armpits.
During Taabe's war chief ceremony, one of the Tribesmen standing by the fire, to the left, momentarily looks directly into the camera.
The movie takes place on the Northern Great Plains, but says that the warriors are Comanche. The Comanche were not a tribe on the Northern Great Plains. The Comanche were in Texas, eastern New Mexico, and the most southern part of Kansas.
Tribes of the Northern Great Plains included Assiniboine, Sioux, Crow, Blackfeet, Plains Cree, Ojibwa, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara.
The Northern Great Plains extended from Northern Nebraska to Canada and didn't include any part of the traditional Comanche territory.
When Naru floats down the river immediately after the bear attack, there is clearly a metal triangle mile marker post on the river bank in the distance on right.
The movie was shot mainly in the wet Boreal forests of Western Alberta near Calgary, on the outskirts of the Rocky Mountains. This is about 1000 miles north of where the Comanche Nation lives and not at all the dry Great Plains. Hunting takes place on foot in the forests instead of Buffalo hunting on horseback on the plains. Grassland is only shown around the camp, while almost all panorama shots show forested hills and the whole plot takes place in the forests. There were no Comanche Villages this far north. This may be because the Predator Ships (seen carved into the rocks at the end of the Credits) made sure there are no Comanche in the area since.
The film is set in 1719 and shows large scale bison slaughter by the fur traders, which makes that scene approximately 150 years too early.
The Métis of Canada had organized hunts for trade as early as the 1770s, however it wasn't until the mid-19th century, or more accurately, the 1870s that large scale bison eradication occurred by settlers and the military.
The Métis of Canada had organized hunts for trade as early as the 1770s, however it wasn't until the mid-19th century, or more accurately, the 1870s that large scale bison eradication occurred by settlers and the military.
Naru is able to break off one of the Predator's mandible tusks with great ease like she possesses superhuman strength.
Naru rams a knife through the chin of a Trapper and pokes it out the top of their head, pushing the blade through bone and muscle without any effort whatsoever.
Naru was armed with a bow and tomahawk, and the Feral Predator clearly sees her carrying weapons, using them to hunt a lion and a bear, and even holding her tomahawk in a threatening manner at the Feral Predator after it kills several of her tribe, yet it doesn't consider her a threat to begin with, (the implication is because she's a woman), even though it's been established that the Predator species will attempt to kill anybody, no matter who they are, if they're holding anything resembling a weapon. Like in Predator 2 (1990) where the City Hunter slaughtered the commuters on the train, which included old women armed with pistols, went to kill Leona who was armed until it discovered that she was pregnant, and even targeted a child in the graveyard before realizing he was holding a toy gun. Then there is Alexa Woods in Alien vs. Predator (2004) who is kicked in the stomach by the Chopper Predator for trying to pick up a weapon.
The excuse that this was the first time a Predator had came to Earth and therefore didn't consider women to be a threat like men doesn't hold water since again, if it sees anything doing something resembling threatening behavior, like a snake eating a mouse, a wolf hunting a rabbit, a bear chasing its prey, or even a dog barking at it, the Predator considers them worthy sport.
The excuse that this was the first time a Predator had came to Earth and therefore didn't consider women to be a threat like men doesn't hold water since again, if it sees anything doing something resembling threatening behavior, like a snake eating a mouse, a wolf hunting a rabbit, a bear chasing its prey, or even a dog barking at it, the Predator considers them worthy sport.