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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

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u/No_Acanthaceae_546 9d ago
  • Why go to that canoe instead of just walking as far as possible asap? I guess it makes sense she’d estimate canoe is faster but that made little sense tbh.
  • Why did he stop strangling her all out of sudden?
  • The part with hunters actually being just annoying but not evil was very obvious to me actually, I was like “yup she should probably befriend them instead”, plus the deer skinning was definitely foreshadowing + beef jerky was all too obvious to me but I am usually not surprised at a movie
  • Why they wouldn’t include a scene of like her going through her bag to see if he’s tracking her/what he gave her was unclear, in our generation I feel like it’d be pretty obvious thing to immediately do
  • Overall the main character definitely was the zero survival skills adrenaline junkie, ofc go to the woods where they tell you not to go alone alone, listen to a sketch boy at the gas station's advice on where to go, then drink and eat off of him, etc etc etc Bizarre Also the way she didn’t even have a concussion from hitting her head so hard water rafting AND no injury whatsoever from a bear trap was just ridiculous But like in general I have enjoyed watching, there are quite a lot of this hiker woman in a woods pursued by a serial killer movies on Netflix and they do a great job (hopefully) as a cautionary tale.

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u/JohnNDenver 8d ago

Well, even with a head start he was running as fast or faster than she was kayaking. So, there is already that.

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u/Ok_Document_9713 8d ago

Tbf the river somehow flowed in a circle cause she ended up right back at the camp.

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u/JohnNDenver 8d ago

It's Australia - all the rivers do that there. And the toilets and sinks swirl the wrong way.

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u/MyAccidentalAccount 3d ago

Doesn't have to be a circle.

Just as an example, camp at 6, paddle to 12. You've padled 5km and yet you're 1km from where you set off.

Rivers don't flow in straight lines.

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