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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767863988
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0767863984
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: May 15, 2001
Running Time: 110 minutes
Sales Rank: 14178
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1988
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The director of Waterworld teams up with playwright William Mastrosimone for a story of a lost Russian tank during the Afghan war; doesn't sound like your normal action fare, does it? Despite its awkward origins, The Beast is a satisfying action yarn that unfortunately was never widely distributed. When Afghan rebels find the lone tank lost in the high desert, a cat-and-mouse chase commences with nail-biting, emotional precision. The Russian tank crew is also at war with themselves after the sympathetic driver (a stalwart Jason Patric) debates the brutal tactics of his commander (George Dzundza). This visceral action drama was adapted from--believe it or not--a stage play but keeps its feet firmly planted in the war-action genre. Director Kevin Reynolds's second film showcases his aggressive camera work that was featured later, less successfully, in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Made directly after the Afghan war, the film was hard to sell in the late 1980s. With the Russians speaking English (and the Afghans their native dialect), the viewer is uncomfortably bonded to the unpopular aggressors. Yet the film reverberates in the sweat and toil of battle, with Patric bringing a more dramatic flair to the role than comes from the usual set of cinematic action heroes. --Doug Thomas
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Rating:  -
"The Beast" is a great war film whose action takes place in 1981 in the second year of conflict between the Soviet army and the free people of Afghanistan.
For those who have known the conflict at the time (thank you to Afrane), where Afghans were fighting with rudimentary hunting weapons against the second army in the world (after the USA), the fierceness of the fighting is well shown.
The camera in the bowels of the hunted tank unveils an increasingly thick sweat atmosphere ... Read More
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I've watched this film 4 times. Each time it gets better and more relevant.
Outstanding performances by all cast members depicting the (mostly) realistic sadism of war. Many movies either glorify it (Pick a John Wayne war movie.) or make it an antiwar statement ("Johnny Got His Gun", "Paths of Glory". This one comes close to showing how war, realistically, can break one man (Dzundza), while driving another (Patric)[to turning against the people with whom he fights.
Admittedly, ... Read More
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I had never heard of this movie until it came up as a recommendation, and the reader reviews persuaded me to try it. I'm glad I did.
This is a well written and well-acted story of a Soviet tank crew who, after destroying an Afghan village, and becoming separated from the rest of their unit, are hunted down by the surviving men, and women, of the village.
The story turns on the stormy relationship between the tank commander, a bullying, straight-laced officer scarred by his childhoom ... Read More
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Suspensful war drama with mutiny. Uncommon afganistan deasert mountainous location. I routed for the underdog.
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In my opinion this is definaltey a classic war film. The characters don't speak russian nor do they fake accents which would have given better imersion into the movie and its the ony real reason I wont give it 5 stars i would say more like 4 and three quarters stars. Otherwise beside that acting, pacing, and quality are all pretty spot on and shouldn't be missed if you enjoy war and action movies.
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