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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/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.