2025 · thriller · action · war
Beast of War
Directed by Kiah Roache-Turner1h 27m2025
When their boat sinks while crossing the Timor Sea during World War II, a troop of young Australian soldiers must find a way to survive the harsh seas on a quickly shrinking raft. Hundreds of miles from anywhere, they must confront interpersonal conflicts, enemy attacks, and the advances of one very large, very hungry great white shark.
Our read: Beast of War (2025) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive thriller · action · war entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme thriller / action, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
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