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Beast
Australia / USA 2026
produced by
John Schwarz, RuthAnne Frigerio, Michael Schwarz, Tim O'Hair for Broken Open Pictures, Storm Alley Entertainment, Armagh Films, Black Pearl Productions
directed by Tyler Atkins
starring Daniel MacPherson, Bren Foster, Russell Crowe, Amy Shark, Mojean Aria, George Burgess, Nathan Phillips, Kelly Gale, Sol Nc Carrico, Saphira Moran, Luke Hemsworth, Josh McKenzie, CJ Bloomfield, Christian Slade, Matt Nable, Eliza Matengu, Callan Colley, Chatri Sityodtong, Herb Dean, Demetrious Johnson, Dom Lau, Martin Nguyen, Joshua Culibao, Hamish Maciver, Liam Resnekov
story by David Frigerio, screenplay by David Frigerio, Russell Crowe, music by Brian Cachia, fight choreography by Bren Foster
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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11 years ago, Patton (Damien McPherson) was the top-of-the crop MMA
fighterdestined to win the world championship - but instead he was thrown
into jail for ... reasons. Since he has lost the drive to fight and has
instead become a commercial fisherman - who's just not very good at
holding a job. Then his brother Marlon (Mojean Aria), also an MMA fighter,
is beaten to a pulp by his opponent Xavier (Bren Foster), a fighter whom
Patton has famously knocked out in record time back in the day. With
Marlon out of the picture, Xavier's manager (Luke Hemsworth) offers Patton
a shitload of money to get back into the ring for a re-match against
Xavier - and despite the dismay of his wife (Kelly Gale), Patton agrees.
So he starts training at his old gym with his estranged coach's (Russell
Crowe) daugher (Amy Shark), and slowly gets back into form. Then though
Xavier is suspended from his promotion and Xavier suggests to have the
fight fight club style instead. Patton turns him down, but Marlon accepts
in his stead - and is killed at the event. And now, whether he likes it or
not, Patton has to avenge him - in a big championship event set up by the
very promotion that had Xavier suspended earlier, in a big arena in
Thaland ...
Now ok, one can't exactly accuse Beast
of originality, it basically tells the exact same story as quite so many
other sports dramas, with pretty much the same set of characters and
caricatures, hitting all the same beats when it's supposed to - and with
that in mind, the film feels a bit over-long. But where the movie really
comes to life is in the fight scenes that are gritty rather than showy and
that make the adenaline and pain that come with the subject really
palpable. And for that, Beast is absolutely worth a
watch.
This film will be released in the UK on digital by
Vertigo Releasing on June 1st, 2026. |
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