Beast (2022)
77%RT Audience Score: 77%
Awards & Nominations: NA
Want to watch Idris Elba fight a lion? The admirably lean yet ultimately disposable Beast is just the movie you’re looking for.
Whatever Beast lacks in surprises — or characters making smart decisions in a terrible situation — it more than makes up for with plenty of edge-of-your-seat action.
Production Company(ies)
RVK Studios, Universal Pictures, Will Packer Productions
Distributor
Universal Pictures
Release Type
Theatrical, Theatrical (Wide)
Filming Location(s)
Cape Town, South Africa; South Africa
MPAA / Certificate
R
Year of Release
2022
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby
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Aspect ratio:2.39 : 1
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Runtime:1h 33m
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Language(s):English
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Aug 19, 2022 Wide
Genre(s)
Mystery & thriller/Adventure
Keyword(s)
starring Idris Elba, Sharlto Copley, Iyana Halley, Leah Jeffries, directed by Baltasar Kormákur, written by Ryan Engle, mystery, thriller, adventure, drama, horror, R rating, box office, $29.4M, reviewed by Linda Marric, Clarisse Loughrey, Kimber Myers, Wendy Ide, Wenlei Ma, Amy Nicholson, Andrea Thompson, James Luxford, Jack Bottomley, Russ Simmons, Rahul Desai, produced by Will Packer, James Lopez, Baltasar Kormákur, Universal Pictures, lion, South Africa, game reserve, wildlife biologist, survival, hunted, apex predator, blood-thirsty poachers, father, daughters, pulse-pounding, edge-of-your-seat, action
Worldwide gross: $59,095,809
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $59,095,809
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,259
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 6,444,472
US/Canada gross: $31,846,530
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $31,846,530
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,245
US/Canada opening weekend: $11,575,855
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $11,575,855
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 905
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $36,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $36,000,000
Production budget ranking: 1,008
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $19,386,000
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $3,709,809
ROI to date (est.): 7%
ROI ranking: 1,364
Sharlto Copley – Martin Battles
Iyana Halley – Meredith Daniels
Leah Jeffries – Norah Daniels
Baltasar Kormákur – Director
Ryan Engle – Screenwriter
Director(s)
Baltasar Kormákur
Writer(s)
Ryan Engle
Producer(s)
Will Packer, James Lopez, Baltasar Kormákur
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
NA
Academy Awards
All Critics (192) | Top Critics (49) | Fresh (132) | Rotten (60)
There are some great performances here, notably from Copley, but Beast often feels too contrived and preposterously overblown.
August 30, 2022 | Rating: 3/5
Linda Marric
The Jewish Chronicle
TOP CRITIC
Audiences will turn up because a trailer promised to show them one of our most charismatic A-listers in a boxing match with a roided-out kitty cat… In that sense, it’s impossible to argue that Beast doesn’t live up to its promise.
August 29, 2022 | Rating: 3/5
Clarisse Loughrey
Independent (UK)
TOP CRITIC
‘Beast’ delivers on its simple premise, offering an effective survival thriller; nothing more, nothing less.
August 29, 2022 | Rating: B
Kimber Myers
Crooked Marquee
TOP CRITIC
It’s partly this hint of emotional complexity, plus Elba’s robust redemption arc, from failed father to lion-punching saviour, that sets this picture a notch above the average creature attack flick.
August 28, 2022 | Rating: 4/5
Wendy Ide
Observer (UK)
TOP CRITIC
Beast is a film that knows exactly what it is and doesn’t try to overcomplicate things – it’s a chase film and what you get is a suspenseful chase. Job done.
August 28, 2022 | Rating: 3/5
Wenlei Ma
News.com.au
TOP CRITIC
The camera work here is really beautiful and the style fits this film very well.
August 26, 2022
Amy Nicholson
FilmWeek (KPCC – NPR Los Angeles)
TOP CRITIC
It doesn’t go anywhere that hasn’t been mapped out before, but pulp has rarely been done so thrillingly.
September 15, 2022
Andrea Thompson
Boss Level Gamer
Beast is solid entertainment that roars its way through a short running time. With the right audience it could be the surprise hit of the year, and prove Elba is a star with or without 007’s tuxedo.
September 15, 2022 | Rating: 3/5
James Luxford
City AM
Beast brings animal attacks films back to the cinema schedule with gruesome efficiency and thematic bite. You might call it Jaws with paws… and plenty of claws! Brilliant.
September 13, 2022 | Rating: 4/5
Jack Bottomley
Starburst
While formulaic, “Beast” benefits from a strong cast and convincing special effects.
September 10, 2022 | Rating: 3/5
Russ Simmons
KKFI-FM (Kansas City)
Baltasar Kormakur’s Beast uses raw emotion to drive the conflict between man and nature.
September 9, 2022 | Rating: 3.5/5
Rahul Desai
News9 Live (India)
An adrenaline-infused exercise in immersive filmmaking that entertains without leaving a mark.
September 9, 2022
Nestor Bentancor
Nestor Cine Desde Hollywood…
Plot
Dr. Nate Samuels, a recently widowed husband, returns to South Africa where he first met his wife on a long-planned trip with their daughters to a game reserve. But what begins as a journey of healing turns into a fearsome fight for survival when a lion and a survivor of blood-thirsty poachers begins stalking them.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
In a few places as the walkie-talkies are used it’s is seen that continuity errors appear where the characters are talking but not pressing the radios transmit button, or listening when the button is pressed in. In both cases the conversation would have had to have been repeated to make the sense it did.
This may have been a minor error by the actor or the radio audio being dubbed in afterwards slightly out of sequence.
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