Certain Prey

November. 06,2011      
Rating:
5.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Minneapolis Deputy Police Chief, Lucas Davenport, has to face off against a duo unlike any he's ever encountered; a lethal hit woman and a ferociously cunning killer determined to hunt him down.

Mark Harmon as  Lucas Davenport
Lola Glaudini as  Carmel
Tatiana Maslany as  Clara Rinker
Kate Greenhouse as  Special Agent Malone
Art Hindle as  Special Agent Leonard Heisman
Aidan Devine as  Sloan
Athena Karkanis as  Marcy Sherrill
Anand Rajaram as  Det. Black
Rod Wilson as  Hale Allen
Mark Taylor as  Officer Graff

Reviews

Greenes
2011/11/06

Please don't spend money on this.

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Kaydan Christian
2011/11/07

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

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Fleur
2011/11/08

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

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Dana
2011/11/09

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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Cedar13
2011/11/10

Saw this mediocre movie for the first time last weekend. Was home sick in bed and desperate for any entertainment. Milding interesting, more as I live in the Minneapolis area (live only a few miles from the airport sign they show). Two days later I saw Lola Glaudini in almost the same role in the Law and Order episode "Loneyville" from 2007. In both she plays a sexy lesbian attorney who has a female partner in crime. I like her character in both but needed more sexuality than could be shown on TV. Really didn't like the ending in the movie. Could not believe that someone driving a convertible could fire a gun over the top of the front window and almost hit someone 100 yards away.

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Deanna Paulicek
2011/11/11

Certain Prey, first TV adaptation of a novel by John Sandford. Tenth book in the Prey series.This is the first show that has me picking up a book, a book in series, an excellent series at that. A few people expect that a movie or TV adaptation of a book should be to the word, I don't see this even possible unless you make it into a series with-in itself. I loved this story the characters and the lead character Lucas Davenport in my opinion was wonderfully portrayed, by Mark Harmon.I have become a Prey series fan because of this movie and am looking forward to the next installment. Davenport is suspiciously close to Gibbs in a lot of ways, Mark Harmon, a Sandford fan no doubt, they are connected, IMO. I loved it. A terrific movie full of Suspense and thoroughly engaging.

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Edward Paisley
2011/11/12

It is the adaptation of a book and it played out like a book, with narrations and other adaptation problems. It wasn't terrible but it wasn't that good. I thought Mark Harmon did a very good job of portraying Lucas Davenport. He really captured the world-weariness of Davenport as I had pictured him in the book, without going over the top with the character nor playing another hard charging "Gibbs" role. Davenport was an older cop who had been doing this a long time so I thought this would be a good role for Harmon. I have always liked Mark Harmon and he is just a bit older than I am. As for the other characters they seemed to be poorly cast and poorly acted. I have never liked Lola Glaudini who played Carmel (even though her body looked great). I didn't like her when she was on Criminal Minds. The guy who played Hale is nowhere near what I expected especially with the ranting about how good looking he was but was dumber than a box of lint or whatever they said. Both Athena Karkanis ...Marcy and Tatiana Maslany ...Clara Rinker were, I don't know..... poorly cast, poorly developed and poorly acted. And I don't think these were bad actors based on other roles I have seem them play. Maybe it was poor directing. But they didn't mesh with my expectations of the characters. Over all I was disappointed, expected more and will watch another NCIS marathon if I want to watch Mark Harmon act.......

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nex21
2011/11/13

Agree with the other reviewers, this was an embarrassing "movie". Bad lines, actors mailing in performances and it felt like a high school play where everyone was just muddling along with no flow and no tension. If I could give it 0 stars I would, but the 1 star is for the laughs I got when listening to the bad lines.Like a train wreck, I had to watch through the end to see the chain of comical sequences come to an end. This was a blatant audience grab for the fans of Mark Harmon and NCIS. He looked like he tried to be Gibbs again, but seriously it is tough to overcome a bad script.

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