Post by Dracula on Aug 30, 2022 20:15:09 GMT -5
Beast(8/19/2022)
Beast, the new film in which Idris Elba goes toe to toe with an angry lion, is not exactly a film I was expecting high art out of. I was mainly hoping that it would live up to the “high standards” of the 2019 film Crawl, a creature feature of similar ambition about alligators invading a house during a hurricane which was similarly released without a ton of fanfare during the dog days of summer a couple years back. I have oddly warm feelings about that movie despite it decidedly not being anything special and was maybe hoping for a similar kind dumb fun time. Was it as good? Well, no. Its setting isn’t as interesting as a house that’s slowly filling with water over the course of day of heavy rain and I think I just generally find alligators more scary than lions. However, Crawl didn’t have a star in it as compelling as Idris Elba, so it’s a bit of a wash. The film involves a family that gets caught in a stuck car that’s under siege by an angry large predatory cat… so basically Cujo, but with a lion. If that sounds like a good time to you then you can do a lot worse than this. The film’s ending doesn’t quite work but other than that it’s a decent creature feature.
*** out of Five
Beast, the new film in which Idris Elba goes toe to toe with an angry lion, is not exactly a film I was expecting high art out of. I was mainly hoping that it would live up to the “high standards” of the 2019 film Crawl, a creature feature of similar ambition about alligators invading a house during a hurricane which was similarly released without a ton of fanfare during the dog days of summer a couple years back. I have oddly warm feelings about that movie despite it decidedly not being anything special and was maybe hoping for a similar kind dumb fun time. Was it as good? Well, no. Its setting isn’t as interesting as a house that’s slowly filling with water over the course of day of heavy rain and I think I just generally find alligators more scary than lions. However, Crawl didn’t have a star in it as compelling as Idris Elba, so it’s a bit of a wash. The film involves a family that gets caught in a stuck car that’s under siege by an angry large predatory cat… so basically Cujo, but with a lion. If that sounds like a good time to you then you can do a lot worse than this. The film’s ending doesn’t quite work but other than that it’s a decent creature feature.
*** out of Five
