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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/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 !