![]() It’s worth noting that “Beast” and the recent, far-superior film, “ Prey” both have messages about hunters ravaging the animal kingdom and paying dearly for it. While Jeffries and Halley effectively convey fear and heroism (one scene of retaliation against their foe is a definite crowd-pleaser), the screenplay often reduces them to frustrating antics to garner suspense. When their father is trying to silently evade his nemesis, his kids start blowing the damn Jeep horn and trying to engage him on a walkie-talkie. They wander off at inopportune moments, knowing full well that Rory’s out there biding his time. Whenever Nate tells them to stay in the car, they don’t. I mean, people do stupid things in horror movies all the time, just to get the audience to talk back to the screen, but this is excessive. The task is a little harder than one might expect, considering it felt at times that Norah and Meredith were secretly in cahoots with their predator. Nate protecting his daughters by any means necessary. Clearly, this lion has seen “Cujo.”įrom here, “Beast” is all about Dr. Well, one lion does, and to prove his point, Rory traps the Samuels in their Jeep after causing them to crash during the attack. ![]() (He calls Rory “the Devil.”) When Martin goes to a nearby village to seek help, he discovers the place littered with mutilated bodies. As the film progresses, we’ll see his handiwork in more graphic detail, first on the body of a injured man who stops Martin’s Jeep seeking help. “Beast” opens with the aforementioned poachers gunning down a pride of lions, followed by a brief glimpse of Rory exacting the first of many attacks. “This is so back in the day,” says Norah when she learns there’s no cell phone service nor Wi-Fi out in the middle of nowhere. Nate is taking his daughters to their mother’s old stomping grounds in the bush, hoping to repair his relationship with them. Tragically, Nate’s ex died of cancer after their separation, causing an angry distance between Meredith and the father she feels deserted the family. Like her mother, Meredith is a photographer. He introduced the two, and their union produced two daughters, Norah ( Leah Jeffries) and their eldest, Meredith ( Iyana Halley). Nate Samuels (Idris Elba) grew up with Martin. “Around here” is South Africa, where the ex-wife of Dr. “And that’s the only law that applies around here.” “It’s the law of the jungle,” says Martin Battles ( Sharlto Copley) about how violently lions react when their pride is threatened. Rory is presumably pissed that poachers have killed his entire pride, therefore it’s his mission to execute every human he encounters with extreme prejudice. The screenplay by Ryan Engle doesn’t give the big cat a name, so let’s call him Rory. “Beast” has plenty of that the murderous lion can take out an entire group of men with AR-15’s while finding time to jump on top of cars and reach into windows to swat at human prey. ![]() It used to let viewers know they were in for some fun, cheesy mayhem. Speaking of logos, this is yet another movie that would have benefited from having the grungy ol’ Universal logo from the 1970s appear at the beginning. ![]()
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