Beast
Director:
Baltasar KormákurGuión:
Ryan EngleCámara:
Philippe RousselotMúsica:
Steven PriceStreaming (2)
Sinopsis(1)
A veces, lo que se mueve entre los arbustos es realmente un monstruo. Idris Elba protagoniza un trepidante thriller sobre un padre y sus dos hijas adolescentes que son perseguidos por un imponente león solitario decidido a demostrar que en la sabana solo hay un rey depredador. (Universal Pictures España)
Reseñas (6)
La tensión aparece pronto y efectivamente, el potencial del drama de supervivencia marcha sólidamente hasta el final. Buen trabajo con el entorno y los animales digitales, simpático reconocimiento de la inspiración por el Parque Jurásico (personajes en peligro de extinción atrapados en un jeep). Además, Idris Elba encaja perfectamente en el papel. El ultra-cliché «familia rota converge en una situación extrema» no importa, es una película de género que entretiene sólidamente con suspense en un escenario exótico. Sólo que de vez en cuando hay disparates, joder. No son muchos, pero una aventura repleta y técnicamente sólida podría prescindir de ellos.
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Idris Elba and his daughters encounter a lion in the middle of the African wilderness. They fight it for an hour, supporting characters die, and then what you expect happens. Beast is a cookie-cutter thriller that impresses primarily because of its cinematography and long takes, but certainly not with the story, which doesn't stray off the beaten track for a second. It's not bad, but I can't really think of a reason to send anyone to see it. As a thriller, Beast doesn't have much to offer.
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A decent survival flick with lions in the Savannah. If you accept the fact that Beast is a horror B-movie with no higher ambitions, serving only as a survival action/thriller with a bloodthirsty lion, it can be reliably enjoyed. If you start addressing the script – is anyone really addressing the script here? really? Only an intellectual brat can expect twists and turns and a compelling plot here. That sometimes someone doesn't act logically? Well, kids don't think, they act, and not everyone is logical, so I find these criticisms completely silly and irrelevant, but back to the film. It starts slower and gradually introduces us to the main characters. I appreciate the fact that there are not a bunch of stupid teenagers, but a family with a father and two daughters, whom the viewer can root for far more than annoying teens, plus Idris Elba is a likeable doctor, so he knows what to do in a situation like this probably more than any of the grumbling viewers, and Sharlto Copley as a zoologist and their guide (his dialogues about nature and animals are informative and fine) hugging with the lions is just great. Once the first encounter with El Diabolo takes, the real survival fun begins. The lion has great CGI, so that's a big plus (no one wants those rubber and plush animals seen in other similar movies), and he plays his role as villain perfectly. His entrance is scary and uncomfortable, he looks properly bad ass and they quite smartly explain why he does what he does, which I wasn't expecting. I also enjoyed the great visuals, the beautiful cinematography rounding off the African landscape there could have been more animals, I was hoping for a crocodile but was pleased with the snake at least), decent music, decent action (the scene with the poachers is pretty atmospheric), plenty of suspense and a few brutal shots (mutilated people), had there been some severed limbs I would have been very happy. The finale is a nice build up to 4 stars for me. An awesome intense duel that is brutal and raw (I thought of The Revenant right away) and a pretty clever ending. Beast is similar to Aja's Crawl, and anyone who loves animal horror like I do (if they are crafted with skill of course) should have little to complain. I was a bit disappointed with the music from the trailer, which wasn't in the film after all, I was looking forward to it, it sounded properly creepy. Beast meets those basic criteria, and that's enough for me, because genre films like this come out barely once a year. 7/10
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El experimentado director islandés Baltasar Kormákur entrega una película de género muy lograda y de gran calidad, con una premisa sencilla pero una ejecución tanto más eficaz. No apunta demasiado alto y funciona bien en casi todo lo que intenta hacer. Si fuiste capaz de disfrutar de Infierno bajo el agua de Aja hace unos años, La bestia, de clase más A, podría ser algo para ti. Es que no hay muchas películas de terror de calidad sobre bestias asesinas.
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Beast offers a different world and a different predator alongside the older The Shallows and Crawl, while being on par in quality with the aforementioned animal horror films. The visuals of the lions are really impressive, as are the shots of the daytime and nighttime wilderness. While the viewer has a hunch from the beginning how the film will eventually end, the film still managed to keep me in suspense almost the entire time. What bothered me about Beast was the behavior and (stupid) decisions of some of the characters.
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Kormákur has always struck me as a more or less competent director who doesn't really care what he's making. This time, however, Beast is just a sometimes unbearably silly B-movie, where you might still enjoy the ultra-long shots that the film is composed of and how difficult they must have been to execute, assuming you could tell they were difficult to execute. Instead, virtually any potential technical problem in a scene is solved here with post-production effects or scenes made entirely of CGI, which of course look terrible. Idiotic B-movies can be fun in that you occasionally think "how the hell did they do that?", "how many times did they have to shoot that?", or "I'm surprised that actor didn't get hurt." When the challenges are solved by computer, all that's left is the idiocy.
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