The script sucked, tries to hold emotional weight at times but it either falls flat or feels forced, especially from the stubborn daughter. ![]() Idris Elba deserves better than this, even he couldn't save it. Somebody said the writers think we're stupid. All the main actors keep making the most illogical decisions and the beast hunting them's actions also didn't make sense. You know those moments someone attempts to be a hero and somebody else goes "you're either really brave, or really stupid", well this is full of the latter. I had to rewrite this because the first one was more of a rant with spoilers. I left the theater thinking 3 stars, but after writing this review, it's a 2. Why is this listed as horror? It's not scary. Why did they CG the humans in scenes with CG lions? It's very noticeable. Why not take advantage of the R-rating? This is the perfect kind of movie to go extra bloody and violent. That would be like fighting a linebacker with a needle. Apparently this lion's weakness is small knives. This lion has to be the worst lion in the history of lions. Even little house cats HUNT AND DESTROY without mercy. This is turning into a rant, but I can't help it. Also, this lion has a thousand chances for killshots and decides not to take them. Cats can reach at least half the length of their body with their arm. (Infomercial voice) And that's not all! This lion can almost fit its entire head under a car, but doesn't use his arm to reach. Or that cats have a keen sense of hearing. They hope you don't know that cats can see in the dark. The people who made this movie either did zero research on lions, or didn't care and assumed the audience is stupid. But the parts that annoyed me the most have to do with the lion. Don't get me started on the forced family drama. It's staggering the amount of times a character does the worst possible thing. The most obvious are the idiots that fill this movie. Yet I couldn't stop noticing how dumb everything was. I'm the target audience for this type of movie. And this is coming from someone who frequently enjoys dumb stuff. Poachers are, however, causing increasing rage among the prides, and rumors abound that Martin is one of the anti-poachers who have taken it upon themselves to serve as lion-protecting vigilantes, which might involve killing illegal hunters.Other headlines I thought about using are "Rooting for the lion" and simply "Idiots." This movie is so dumb. ![]() One of them dashes right up to him and puts its paws on his shoulders as though asking for a dance. ![]() The man who introduced Nate to her is her childhood friend Martin (Sharlto Copley), whom the girls fondly address as “Uncle Martin” and who is an expert on the local fauna and a friend to lions. Elba plays Nate Samuels, an American physician who brings his two daughters, Meredith and Norah (Iyana Halley and Leah Sava Jeffries), to South Africa to visit the place where their deceased mother grew up. Kormákur somehow elicits a shoddy performance from the sturdy English actor Idris Elba, whom I’d never seen flail like this. If any lions watch this movie, they’re bound to regard it as a comedy about the sheer ineptitude of one of their colleagues. Such woeful technique! Any self-respecting big cat would simply remove the leg of anyone who tried that. Kick the thing in the snout, and it skitters away looking confused. The digital lion in the movie is about as scary as Chevy Chase’s Landshark. You’d think it wouldn’t be that hard to make a scary, or at least entertaining, movie out of the concept of a rampaging lion attacking every human being in sight: Just round up some suspenseful music and borrow stylistically from “Jaws.” In “Beast,” however, the director Baltasar Kormákur (“2 Guns”) bungles every opportunity for suspense and horror.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |