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- 2022
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 33 m
- 2022
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 33 m
Summary Dr. Nate Daniels (Idris Elba), a recently widowed husband, returns to South Africa, where he first met his wife, on a long-planned trip with their daughters to a game reserve managed by Martin Battles (Sharlto Copley), an old family friend and wildlife biologist. But what begins as a journey of healing jolts into a fearsome fight for sur...
Directed By: Baltasar Kormákur
Written By: Jaime Primak Sullivan, Ryan Engle
- 2022
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 33 m
- 2022
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 33 m
Beast
54
4.9
Where to Watch
Summary Dr. Nate Daniels (Idris Elba), a recently widowed husband, returns to South Africa, where he first met his wife, on a long-planned trip with their daughters to a game reserve managed by Martin Battles (Sharlto Copley), an old family friend and wildlife biologist. But what begins as a journey of healing jolts into a fearsome fight for sur...
Directed By: Baltasar Kormákur
Written By: Jaime Primak Sullivan, Ryan Engle
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 46 Critic Reviews
54
37% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
54% Mixed
25 Reviews
25 Reviews
9% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 46 Critic Reviews
54
37% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
54% Mixed
25 Reviews
25 Reviews
9% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
If there’s one thing that Beast does well, it keeps its audience on the edge of their seats.
Yes, it’s all illogical and silly: Lions don’t behave this way, and humans tend to be better at self-preservation than such movies would have us believe. But if everybody always acted correctly, we wouldn’t have movies like Beast, and that’d be no fun at all.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 61 User Ratings
4.9
20% Positive
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
57% Mixed
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
23% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 61 User Ratings
4.9
20% Positive
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
57% Mixed
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
23% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
I really loved this movie. Has some intense moments but it is one that is well worth the watch!
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As with so much of this director’s work, I’m in the middle on Beast, though its efficient running time puts it a notch above. Like many of his previous films, this one has the advantage of modest scale and a passing interest in human resourcefulness under extreme duress. It has also the disadvantage of spectacle that is more technical than artistic.
August might be a washout so far for the industry but Beast couldn’t be arriving at a more apt time, a thrilling, if throwaway, reminder of the fun to be had while watching a B-movie bringing its A-game.
Think of it as Jaws on Safari and you'll have some idea what to expect from this generic thrill machine that requires Idris Elba to look great (he does) while doing battle with a digital lion.
Beast is an over-the-top savage and sometimes head-slappingly silly animal attack thriller. Its artfully paranoid and claustrophobic, comically cuddly and pretty much begs the audience to shout at the screen. A lot.
It has a few scattered laughs, some apparently intentional. But this is thin, unimaginative hack work, and it lacks the deranged seriousness and commitment that distinguishes a pleasurable misfire from bland dreck like this. It is, I am sorry to say, no “Gods of Egypt.”
"Beast" é o típico filme que se justifica unicamente pela experiência sensorial que proporciona, sem enrolação entrega um suspense mata a dentro da selva, e por incrível que pareça o pouco desenvolvimento dos personagens mais ajuda do que atrapalha, afinal, não estamos lá pra ver o drama humano, e sim o poderia da fera.
As primeiras imagens mostrando humanos convivendo com leões, ora caçando ora tentando preservá-los, mostra a dubiedade de postura em relação à natureza, e esse arcabouço já é mais do que suficiente para seguir adiante.
Óbvio que o roteiro cria uma justificativa estapafúrdia para o nosso protagonista (um ótimo Idris Elba) pôr as crianças em perigo, mas ao menos funciona. Tirando um ou outro momento piegas, a trama avança de forma a manter o suspense, especialmente pelo desconhecido e pela iminência ao perigo. A cena em que a fera os ataca no carro lembrou os melhores momentos de Jurassic Park, de tão bem feita como ficou. Quanto Elba tenta sair debaixo do carro, note que a câmera não precisa focar no leão, o não visto é, assim, potencializado pelas escolhas do diretor em criar a agonia necessária.
Há, ainda, vários planos sequência interessantes, giros de 360 graus, uma trilha sufocante, e conta com uma boa participação dos coadjuvantes, embora, como disse, muito pouco trabalhados. A curta duração faz o tempo passar voando, mas o filme entrega o entretenimento esperado.
Claro que a última cena força um pouco, não parece ser crível. Ainda assim, "Beast" é uma experiência que funciona, tem alguns sustos, tem uma direção acima da média e faz entreter ao longo da sua projeção.
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It was enjoyable enough. The constant use of 1 shot takes was very interesting but the script was very basic and bland.
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admirable
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worthy of admiration; inspiring approval, reverence, or affection.
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Featuring bad cgi, bad accents, bad acting, a bad plot moved along by bad decisions and a huge swathe of horrible cliches and stereotypes, this movie is strictly for when there is literally no other choice of viewing.
Elba’s character is apparently smart enough to be a doctor but makes a series of uninterrupted idiotic decisions and is saved from a situation that would never happen by a deus ex Machina that would also never happen. This movie has literally zero redeeming features, not the least of which is the cheesy final scene. Horrible all round.
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Although I do like Idrissa Elba’s acting in his other movies and in parts in this one, unfortunately he just does not come across as an American with that strange muddled accent, which is at times a Denzel parody and at times a New York twang , much like you would expect to hear when someone is asking for a cup of “Kaaewfee” in Starbucks in New York. And he is the better part of this movie! The acting of the two daughters is excruciatingly annoying at times and the unnecessarily gory medical procedures were unwatchable for someone squeamish like me. The lion is a strange mangy beast who doesn’t conjure up the majesty of the king of the jungle. The programmer who created the lions graphics appears to have used a mixture of a large dog and a sick gorilla as a base for the CGI graphics.Anyway I did manage to sit through this one over 3 or 4 days (couldn’t take the whole movie in one session)…so be warned
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Awards
Annie Awards
• 1 Nomination
Visual Effects Society Awards
• 1 Nomination
