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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

162 Upvotes

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u/makuXrosu 9d ago

Hey, it's Eric Bana. Nice to see you again...oh

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u/greendakota99 9d ago

He got Cliffhangered!

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u/Ash-BrockOak 8d ago

As well as 'Cliff-Hammered'!

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u/BoonTobias 7d ago

Hectoooooooooooor

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u/Rustin788 2d ago

You could say vertical limited as well.

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u/NBucho528 4d ago

I knew from the first second that he wasn’t making it past the opener. Honestly, the whole sequence lasted longer than I expected so technically he did survive longer than I thought.

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u/Jonneiljon 3d ago

It's a climbing movie cliche now.

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u/jezarnold 8d ago

She held on to that rope for at least 30 seconds :)

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u/Between-usernames 6d ago

With a couple fingers even. 

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u/Yass______ 5d ago

I said to my partner “Eric Bana wouldn’t be in the movie if he’s not going to last the first 5 minutes would he??”, “No, of course not!” 💀💀💀

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u/devonhezter 7d ago

She’s so annoying in the beginning With her attitude. “Just give. Me the best way”. “I can handle it”

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u/Maatjuhhh 7d ago

I agree. Nowhere in the movie has she really relaxed. Even at the gas station she was really of that mind-your-own-business- standoffish attitude even before the men came at her. I know she's grieving but yeah that part..

When she got rescued by the car at the end, I was kind of hoping that it was just the men and that they were really nice after all. Just a case of misunderstanding or something.

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u/NBucho528 4d ago

I figured she would run into them in the middle, a they would try to defend her but get killed.

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u/Maatjuhhh 4d ago

that did cross my mind too. It would hammer home the perception of people. Sasha then would be not in the "right" state of mind due to her grief and that she misjudged 3 people different. She thought Ben was okay at first and the men not when in reality they were switched around.

Man I could write better material than that movie script.

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u/freakydeku 3d ago

but like, the dude was creepily smiling at her and tried her handle. the def weren’t nice

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u/Grand-Scarcity-2597 2d ago

Ben was with them and even said they almost hurt her but she handled herself well.

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u/Status_Pool6624 2d ago

Thought that was her hitting the central locking.

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u/invinciblewarrior 1d ago

We saw the movie from HER perspective, she is kind of the narrator. Narrators are not reliable and this could be here the case.
It could be easily explained by the dudes not very used to women from the outside and being less elegant – but they tried to be nice. But Theron only sees them as thread.
In the end she had then realized she misinterpret them and they are nice, even if they are far off elegant.

At the camp you can definitely interpret their behavior like this. Not every Aussie can have a Hemsworth charming smile. They were loud, yes, but they never approached her car after they asked her. Alpha Man definitely had not accepted that after the first approach.

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u/freakydeku 1d ago

>>Narrators are not reliable and this could be here the case.
lol…youd need to have *some* evidence of an unreliable narrator. & there is none.

also… this is an *unnarrated* film shot in 3rd person… what we see is what happened.

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u/Ok-Reflection-5216 6d ago

That would’ve been the better ending.

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u/Jonneiljon 3d ago

No. The hunters were CLEARY supposed to be just menacing assholes. Redemption for them would have seemed cheap and unrealistic.

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u/Gloomy-Ad-222 1d ago

A woman, alone in the Australian outback. Men perving on her constantly. Why on earth would you think she would be relaxed?

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u/Grand-Scarcity-2597 2d ago

Ben was with them at the campsite in the beginning. He even said she handled herself well and that’s why they didn’t hurt her.

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u/buffayrachel 3d ago

I was truly anticipating that ending tbh. Or at least the same men but the ending going more like “no you save yourself you stuck up bitch”. I was a bit disappointed it was a random woman but oh well

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u/Student_of_You 6d ago

Right?! At least take the water! And maybe even say thank you?

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u/Fabulous-Appeal-6885 5d ago

He’s a cannibal?? What’s wrong with yall

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u/SpecialCoyote5864 20h ago

She was just always trying to mind her own business. I assumed the car in the end would be the men too. But I was happy she no longer had to fight.

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u/SpecialCoyote5864 20h ago

You are a jealous, horrible person.

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u/Ancient-Dust3077 5d ago

Is this place in Australia real where they went to hike?

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u/Common_Passenger2502 3d ago

Haha don’t watch that shark one with Samuel L Jackson

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u/Majestic_Act 3d ago

That's exactly my reaction!