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Elba couldn’t save the movie

4 September, 2022

Beast starring Idris Elba is a doctor/single father. He is on holiday to the

stunning yet dangerous safari locations of South Africa.

Who is the Beast?

The trailer didn’t reveal much, and with a title so simple and common I was wondering if the beast was a person abducting tourists using an animal to prey on them.

Well, I was wrong the beast is a ferocious lion set out to kill whatever it comes across.

Led captive by a lion

The start of the movie, is all adventurous, stunning and slow before disaster and action unfolds. Dr. Nate Samuels (Idris Elba) and teenage daughters, Meredith and Norah, arrive at the Mopani Reserve in South Africa for a vacation. He reconnects with an old friend known to him by his late wife.

The family encounters the pride of lions that poachers serve. Everything is fine and flowery when a village is mysteriously attacked by an unknown being. After much suspense, it’s a lion and Nate and his family are in its territory. Thereon it’s about survival until rescue arrives.

If you want to learn how to

stay calm in a dire situation, learn how Dr. Nate does from protecting his daughters and saving his friend.

A little more suspense in the lion would have made the movie interesting, the jump scares were sometimes unnecessary.

Some close encounters with the lion were unbelievable, after brawling with such a fierce beast and surviving it, is questionable.

Conclusion

It’s good to watch it once and the visuals are stunning. Beyond that, it’s nothing much. The trailer had more substance than the movie, Elba’s acting is good and besides that, there is to say about it. It was just a man vs animal movie.

Beast is showing at all scope cinemas

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