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We already know, we have already learned that revenge is the engine of many action films made in Hollywood. But when whoever wants revenge, revenge, is not human but animal, as in Beastthere is no reason to understand.
The Beast of the title is a lion, whose entire pack has been wiped out by poachers. And those who will have the misfortune to meet him, without eating or drinking him, are Nate and his two daughters, one teenager and the other younger. The three African Americans arrive in that region of the African jungle after the deaths of their ex-wife and mother respectively, so that the girls get to know their mother’s original village.
Why don’t you know who Idris Elba is watching, in the middle of the jungle? IPU photo
The film also has another co-star, affectionately called Uncle, but he is white, his name is Martin and his last name, translated, is Battles. He is an anti-hunter boy, who cares that the beasts live in their natural habitat and is opposed to animal traffickers.
Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur may have, let’s not call it balance or poise, but he has the ability to jump from one genre to another. he directed two lethal weaponswith Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg, and also Everestwhich, with an impressive cast of stars, led by Jake Gyllenhaal, presented in Venice in 2015.
At the sight. The actor of “The Suicide Squad” is a father who takes his daughters to Africa and the wild lion meets them.
She has not Beast many well-known faces, more than those of Idris Elba (the suicide squadfour-time Emmy nominee for Luther) and the South African Sharlto Copley (Sector 9 and it was Murdock in disarray Brigade A with Bradley Cooper and Liam Neeson). And the one with the lion, who knows how digital it is, the beast of the title, obviously thirsting for revenge.
End of the bicharraco
without anyone saying it Sharkthere comes a time when Beast It presents us with the same thing as in Steven Spielberg’s film: the animal of atypical dimensions, when both the expert (the fisherman, who was Robert Shaw) and the specialist (the ichthyologist, who played Richard Dreyfuss) fail, there is no is nothing but common man (Roy Scheider) to kill the bicharraco.
Locked in the car. Also, it’s getting dark …
Well, Nate (who plays the actor of Beasts of no nation) is not that common, because it is a doctor. It is good that he stitches up the wounds and saves some characters from death.
No, not all of them. He apologizes to someone, takes what he needs and leaves it at his mercy.
At the mercy of the beast.
Luckily Nate (Elba) is a doctor, and he heals as best he can the wounds left by the vengeful lion.
The script is very simple, and the more or less attentive and not sleepy viewer will not find it difficult to guess that everything that happens or is mentioned (the lions who take care of themselves from the attacks of other animals; the presence of another caretaker; an abandoned school in the middle of nowhere) have a reason and, if necessary, will help the protagonists.
What they don’t help is getting out of a certain boredom, when a few hits are not hit, of a script that poses at least ridiculous situations and the usual confrontations between father and rebellious teenage daughter and the subsequent hug, when dad pulls out the potatoes. fire.
Because it is said that there is only one mother, but also a father like that of Idris Elba.
“Beast”
Regular
Adventure / Suspense. United States, 2022. Original title: “Beasts”. 93 ‘, SAM 13 R. Of: Baltasar Kormakur. With: Idris Elba, Sharlto Copley, Iyana Halley. Rooms: Cinemark Palermo, Hoyts Unicenter, Cinépolis Recoleta and Pilar, Showcase Belgrano.
Paul O. Scholz
Source: Clarin
