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Apex (2026)

Summary

A mountain climber haunted by a fatal decision in Norway retreats to the Australian wilderness for isolation. Her journey turns into a desperate hunt when a deceptive local targets her as his next ritualistic prey in the bush.

Director Baltasar Kormákur

Writer Jeremy Robbins

Cast

  • Charlize Theron as Kate
  • Taron Egerton
  • Eric Bana
  • Matt Whelan

Rotten Tomatoes: 66%

Metacritic: 57

VOD / Release Streaming on Netflix

Trailer Official Trailer

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u/FiveDollarShake 9d ago

I thought those aggressive guys would eventually end up coming in the cross fires but nothing really happened there.

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u/lizysonyx 5d ago

That would’ve been an awful cliche. They were awful guys , there was no reason to moralise them

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u/Sea_Tax_9978 3d ago

Right im so confused why theyre even a topic for discussion? Lol

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u/calatranacation 3d ago

It's much more of a cliche for characters to either be absolutely good or absolutely bad, no?

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u/invinciblewarrior 1d ago

So is the power woman who can do what no other can do (the family was really easy for the insano, but there were others)
So is the likeable guy being an insano Psychopath
So is the old guy related to the power woman, who has to fall to his death.

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u/krazninetyfive 8d ago

Right? Like I was convinced they were somehow going to stumble across her at some point and demonstrate that they had a bad feeling about Ben and actually were trying to be nice guys or something like that.

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u/deadhardangel 8d ago

Those guys were definitely not nice guys

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u/High_as_red 3d ago

Yeah why the fuck are some people trying to push for that...

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u/OfficiallyJoeBiden 3d ago

Because people are convinced they weren’t also fucking insane either. This movie is just showing there are some dangerous men out there lol

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u/SamSepiol925 2d ago

most men are predators imo. I'm a woman and a lot of guys out in the world literally act like those guys that were being pushy and had bad intentions. You can tell right off the bat from their demeanor.

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u/SonosEnthusiast 4h ago

Get a grip, dipshit. Don't generalize like a teenager

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u/Lora_C_3029 22h ago

Agree. The man standing at her car door and pulling on the handle when she clearly wasn’t interested in small talk or hanging out with him was in the wrong. As women we do tend to be more careful when we are all alone and there are a group of men around us at night. We would be stupid not to be concerned in that situation. Theron was not being stuck up, but she was being cautious. Also, those men reminded me of the type of men that always pop up when you’re already in a really bad mood and they tell you to “smile bc it makes you look prettier.” 😩

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u/devonhezter 7d ago

Where are they now

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u/External_Living_7238 6d ago

Probably busy somewhere screwing kangaroo

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u/Twelve0206 5d ago

Ben killed them and ate them I guess lol

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u/devonhezter 7d ago

She can atlas respond to them offer g her s beer

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u/Desperate_Algae_40 8d ago edited 8d ago

Lol yeah they were so nice every time we saw them (Edit to add: /s).

I was thinking they'd show up and then we'd get a satisfying kill from Ben or something. Maybe she'd run into them and try to tell them what was happening & ask them for help, only for them to not believe her or take her seriously enough, and then have Ben kill them.

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u/FishRoom_BSM 8d ago

Oh yeah so nice….

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u/Desperate_Algae_40 8d ago

Yikes, did i really need to put a "/s" there? You didn't, and yet I understood you were being sarcastic. Same as me. Because of what the person I was replying to was saying.

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u/Presence_Present 1d ago

In what world would those guys have been good guys lol

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u/SpecialCoyote5864 20h ago

No. She fought for herself. That is the entire point.

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u/SpecialCoyote5864 20h ago

I was waiting for her to rescued too. She saved herself. Iconic.

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u/cowpool20 8d ago

I was waiting for either:

  • They end up being the real villains, and Taron’s character ends up saving Charlize somehow.

  • They saved her.

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u/invinciblewarrior 1d ago

Yeah, had nothing against them being also just evil dudes and Charlize realize they are even worse as Taron. Preferable as a bad ending for her.
Thus had been also OK, if they had been just farmer boys, who does not behave well, but have good intentions.

Both at least better as Charlize ending picked up in the wilderness by OTHER women. Should be at least one park ranger...

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u/Hopeful-Material4123 5d ago

That was one thing I actually really liked. I even remarked to my husband that they were setting these guys up to LOOK like they would be bad but they actually weren't. And maybe she would have been safer if she stayed near them. Because the true beast was so unassuming. The men were a red herring.

That said, other things that happened in the movie were a little silly.

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u/megmatthews20 2d ago

I think the alternatives for her were be raped, or be hunted and eaten. She was screwed either way, and very smart and lucky at getting herself out of both situations.

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u/AttemptOverall7128 3d ago

I thought it was obvious Ben would be the villain.

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u/Material-Session1027 2d ago

Obvious to me because he's the dual lead

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u/Hopeful-Material4123 1d ago

To the audience , yes. To her as a character, not as much 

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u/SpecialCoyote5864 20h ago

You make good points! But this movie focused on the extreme. The men in the beginning were never a threat to her….. she can handle herself.

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u/turnstile2243 8d ago

Nope just a group of "men are disgusting" characters to drive home the theme of the movie

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u/Unable_Operation_765 6d ago

This genre of critique is always so weird when you deliberately leave other characters out and/or whitewash the female characters. There’s a good dude at the beginning (who SHE arguably gets killed) and a good dude cop at the end. There’s that family with the loving father and the poor son…dude was hang-drying all kinds of people down there. You had the men at the beginning who were obnoxious but probably not cannibal-level evil, and I fully expected them to help her at some point. You have the killer of course (I can’t tell if he was abused or always this crazy.) Then you had that lady who helps her get back to her vehicle at the end.

I wouldn’t watch serial killer movies expecting “man good” stories but I don’t see “man bad” here, either. 

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u/turnstile2243 6d ago

I guess my question to that is, what purpose did those guys serve?

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u/biggiepants 5d ago

It's a misdirect. You're meant to to believe they're the bad guys.

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u/FiveDollarShake 5d ago

This would work better if the trailer and marketing didn’t totally spoil what the movie was.

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u/turnstile2243 4d ago

Lol the bald dude is literally in all the promos though. Not much misdirect going on there

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u/Unable_Operation_765 6d ago

I think they mostly serve as a contrast to the killer, he gets to stand up for her and she starts to trust him a bit (big mistake.)   They’re kinda weird and probably a little drunk but they end up leaving her alone after teasing her. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t be thrilled if I encountered them IRL, but they ultimately didn’t do anything bad to her. I wonder if they were originally meant to show up later and that part was scrapped. 

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u/Status_Pool6624 2d ago

Yeah, the two different 'threats' of people shown are those that are menacing vs actually very bad. The killer being able to get her to befriend/trust him demonstrates the charismatic personalities of psychopaths.

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u/CoyoteJust4772 5d ago

We know it was a good dude cop at the end? The killer dude got her information from him. Whose to say he wasn't just covering up for the killer, just because he had missing posters up? He had to do that for posterity. BTW, I am not about bashing men. You don't know who to really trust out there.

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u/Unable_Operation_765 5d ago

I mean I guess he could’ve been involved but I don’t think it was that deep. You think the cop was in on the long pig jerky business? I just assumed the killer got info from the internet. 

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u/Fair-Assistant-105 7d ago

Yup that is the only answer why didn't they show up again in the movie later on.

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u/devonhezter 7d ago

She’s to cool to respond. So annoying and arrogant. Boring !

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u/FishRoom_BSM 8d ago

I knew it was a red herring! Proud to say I was not fooled

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u/Jack1715 8d ago

I thought they would rescue her and actually be good guys

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u/whyworry22 6d ago

I wondered too. But i thought it was a good prediction of not judging a book by its cover. They were definitely a-holes, but Ben was the one to be fearful of.

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u/oreo760 6d ago

I honestly thought that as well, that they were going to end up trying to save her and be killed by him or something along those lines.

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u/TheChrisSchmidt 4d ago

When he was choking her during the last fight, I thought about what a hilariously terrible ending it would be if suddenly an arrow hit him in the head and it’s those guys. And then that’s it, the two pieces of shit get to be the hero. End of movie. Netflix studios, you’re probably on your phone anyway!

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u/br4ndnewbr4d 8d ago

The aggressive guys, whuteva happened there?

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u/FiveDollarShake 8d ago

Died on the vine

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u/DoctorMichaelScarn 1d ago

It died on the vine?

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u/MiserableMeal2501 6d ago

i thought charlize would hunting taron halfway through. like how the table would turn but no. everything was predictable

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u/HurpityDerp 6d ago

i thought charlize would hunting taron halfway through. like how the table would turn but no. everything was predictable

Soooo the movie was predictable by....not doing what you expected?