Rating: 1/10 only reason it got one was when the [spoiler]younger sister sticked the lion with the dart[/spoiler] only competent one in the whole movie.

Show proves to me that i cant trust rotten tomatoes score. How the fuck this is sitting at 69 right now is beyond me. Maybe its just super fans of Idris

Horrible cgi
Bad acting
Worst decisions by all characters
Annoying children
Even Idris dialogue was annoying as fuck.

Cant believe i wasted time i could have watched absolutely anything else.

Cant believe they did my boy Charlto like this. I think he’s just will to do anything that involves africa. His pride is fucking up his movie stats. Perfect senario would be he only did this so he made a deal to do district 9 part 2 lol

Didn’t think another movie could be as bad as “Rogue” with Megan Foxx but here you go.

Lets see if i can count the bad decisions if i cant even remember all of them since it was so much lol

1. Guy walks in water where crocs just swam in
2. Has the girl hand him the gun pointing barrel to his face
3. After they stuck the lion with a dart, why not shot him a couple more time with more darts :man_facepalming_tone3:
4. Going off in the first place to do what? Chase a lion by yourself lol. Putting everyone in danger
5. Making the girl sleep in the passenger seat where the broken window is?
6. Take the walker but dont turn down the radio
7. Everyone clearly hasn’t learn anything from the Jurassic Park movies, if you’re in a car keep the fuck still.
8. Check any gun that you pick up from someone.
9. :joy: lighting yourself on fire instead of taking your chances with a lion is fucking stupid.
10. If you’re going to commit suicide at least take the lion with you :man_facepalming_tone3:
11. Letting the girl hold the gun without telling her dont point it at us and dont put your finger on the trigger.
12. Opening up every god damn door in the school and leaving it open
13. Being loud as fuck in the school
14. Not tying the shirt around the daughter’s wound properly
15. Really!! Lets waste the fucking bullets. I hate this damn show man.
16. Running out in the open to fight a lion lol. And no he didn’t lure shit into the other lion den lol he was being an idiot

So the lion can’t smell i guess :man_facepalming_tone3:

This show has solidified that i dont want to travel with kids :joy:

Shouldn’t this show just be called Revenge? Pretty sure its been done already.

_Beast_ had its moments where I was left gripping the arms of my chair at the edge of my seat, but the majority of film had me verbally laughing at the poor character writing. This movie does a lot right, don't get me wrong. The buildup to the encounter was done really well. You get a great introduction to all the characters and the individual struggles they go through due to the loss of Dr. Nate Daniels wife; it gives a baseline for the viewer to be able to relate and sympathize with the character. The action is pretty decent, and I was really impressed with the CGI work done on the lion. But, once the climax ensues the writing goes downhill, mainly in terms of character decision making. I found that the writers did not really know how to create unique situations to put the characters in with the lion, resulting in baffling decision to prolong the duration of the film. At every turn, a solution is so easily in view, but they do something that is such a right turn that it is unbelievable. The performance of Idris Alba really pulls the score up though. He does a fantastic job and portrays the loving and protecting nature of a father so well. I enjoyed his cool calm collected nature during high pressure scenes, it gave a sense of reality to him being a doctor. Overall, this film is not great, but it was entertaining, and I had a good time.

**Score:** _65%_ |
**Verdict:** _Decent_

I think the key to figuring out this movie is an early scene in which one of the characters is wearing a Jurassic Park shirt. This must be the filmmakers winking their eye at the audience, letting us know that what we’re about to see is all in jest.

How else to explain a film where the protagonists arrive in South Africa and immediately start bitching about the heat, but they’re all wearing jackets, and sweaters, and hoodies? More importantly, how are we to interpret a movie that introduces the issues of poaching (people who kill lions) and anti-poaching (people who kill people who kill lions, or at least that’s what Beast thinks it is), only to have the antagonist be a maneater (a lion that kills people regardless of their stance on poaching).

This only perpetuates the myth that lions have never met a human they didn’t want to maul (while contributing nothing to the poaching debate). I’m not saying lions follow an animal version of the First Law of Robotics, but they do get a bad rap in the movies, as do sharks — and in that sense, Beast is closer to Jaws: The Revenge than Jaws. Actually, Beast is even worse than Jaws: The Revenge because the latter at least used a mechanical shark, as opposed to the former’s pitiful CGI lion.

All things considered, this is a film that makes you yearn for the simplicity of The Ghost and the Darkness, which made no pretense of being anything other than a Hemingway-lite story about male bonding over hunting big game (and which, though taking many liberties with the source material, had the decency to feature real lions).

Here, however, the hero tricks two other lions into killing the 'evil' lion, not only a gambit that could easily backfire, but also not very nature-friendly. Although coming to think about it, maybe these lions do comply with the second part of the First Law ("A robot [or in this case, lion] may not ... through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm").

**Poor effects and mediocre writing obscure Beast’s shining moments.**

Beast is a decent creature movie entry with some good actors and immersive camerawork. Unfortunately, the digital effects on the lion are distracting and prevent the tension from fully building. The film was at its best when characters were frantically trying to spot the lion before it attacked, but the attacks themselves were easily survivable, making the result disappointing. The pointless family drama, weak dialogue, and far-fetched man versus lion battles prevented Beast from being as enjoyable as movies like Crawl or Deep Blue Sea.

There are a few scenes in this that are vaguely menacing, but for the most part it is really, really poor! Idris Elba ("Nate") arrives with his daughters "Mer" (Iyana Halley) and "Norah" (Leah Jeffries) at at remote African game reserve run by his friend "Martin" (Sharlto Copley). Pretty soon we realise that the luggage they brought on the plane is but the tip of the iceberg of baggage that actually accompanied this family and we are quickly immersed in a rather unattractive melodrama surrounding his late wife who tragically passed away (hopefully before seeing this film). Anyway, they are out on a guided tour when they discover that all is not well - an huge rogue lion is out to avenge himself on humanity after a group of poachers annihilated his pride. Snacking with impunity, this lion is soon determined to make a meal of these travellers - but can they stay alive long enough for help to arrive? Elba struggles to deliver consistency with his rather un-necessary American accent, the two girls are frankly just annoying and from very early on, I was wholeheartedly on the side of the lion. Curiously (or fortunately for the narrative), this great beast has virtually no sense of smell so "Nate" and his offspring seem to manage to dice with death on an implausibly regular basis. Taking shelter in an old school - leaving all the doors open for added protection; getting in and out of their land cruiser with scant regard for their safety and armed with little more than a pen-knife. The dialogue is OK - that's because it says it over and over again... "Are you OK?" "Are You OK"? The last few scenes are just plain silly - indeed, they reminded me of my schoolboy enjoyment of "Daktari" (1966) with the friendly "Clarence the cross-eyed lion" married together with one of the those semi-educational Disney films with actuality interspersed into the fiction. It does have the benefit of being short - just the ninety minutes, but what action there is is all too often drowned out in the banal family drama that is just dull. Nobody's finest work, sorry...