Prey (2022)
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Directed by: Dan Trachtenberg
Starring: Amber Midthunder, Dane DiLiegro, Harlan Blayne Kytwayhat
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Character mistake: The Predator is jumping through trees, then landing in a creek, splashing in the water. Its cloak barely flashes for a moment, then it can walk through the water still cloaked. This is a prequel to the other Predator movies, where it is already established that with their cloaking technology, even in the future, walking in water or getting wet disrupts the cloak and it malfunctions. (00:37:10)
Suggested correction: Even though Prey takes place 300 years before the original movie, its technology isn't necessarily "worse"; it's just different. In the 1987 film, the "Jungle Hunter" has a blue-tinted cloak that shorts out in the river. In Prey, the Feral Predator has a reddish/orange-tinted cloak. Fans suggest the red cloak might be an older, more robust (but perhaps less "clean" looking) version of the technology that wasn't yet sensitive to moisture but lacked the optical clarity of the later models.
While that is a plausible explanation, without concrete proof or a given explanation in the film or subsequent adjacent material, it still leaves it as an inconsistency in the movies. With all the other tech and weapons this predator has, being more primitive, and their species and culture taking any advantage they can in a hunt, it also doesn't make sense for them to use a cloak in the future with "more advanced tech" that is weak to water, when Earth is covered in water and it rains.
Trivia: Towards the end of the film when Naru manages to shoot the Predator in the back of the head, at several points she is whistling. This is usually something the Comanche would never do as they believe whistling at night attracts spirits. But since the Predator is seen as a demon, it makes sense for her to use said whistling to lure it to her.