Beast of Burden (2018)

Wonderfully offbeat film!

Sick Product of a Sick System

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

This one gets 1 star because it's the lowest IMDb will allow. While I love Redcliffe, the film was completely ridiculous. The "bad guys" had the worst and most nonsensical lines ever, the wife was a whiny childish woman we didn't really want to hear because (ugh... no spoilers), and none of the pieces of the film connect to make an interesting suspense you want to sit and watch from beginning to end. There's a SLIGHT BIT OF EXCITEMENT at the very end (no spoilers), but then it gets cut abruptly and forwarded to a random happy ending. I guess one of the bad guys came through? Like the tootsieroll center of a tootsie pop, we will never know. Who accepted this script for Radcliffe? Crazy.

Earlier this year I watched Wheelman that got not too bad ratings on here and I still wonder why. That movie was about a guy in a car phoning different people every five seconds, and this for the entire movie. Apparently I didn't get it because I thought it was one of the most boring movies I saw this year. If you don't like cars but you do like planes, and you do like movies where people are just phoning during the entire movie then you should watch Beast Of Burden. Because that's basically it, Daniel Radcliffe in a plane phoning different people for the entire movie. 95% of the movie is just a guy in a plane phoning. You have to be a masochist to like that kind of garbage. The only reason I started watching this movie was because of Daniel Radcliffe. I wonder if he regrets accepting this role, because that's obviously a serious downer in his career. If you want to die from boredom watch Wheelman and Beast Of Burden consecutively.

This is a nightmare perhaps for a kid who wanted to make it a movie when he grow up! I apologize to myself for watching this movie..

This did not have depth to the plot in any way, shape or form. It was badly directed and frankly, badly acted. Without giving spoilers other than one which is revealed at the start anyway, there was a thin and vague back story which the film took you back to throughout story, but what you was taken back to was so rubbish and uninteresting, and repetitive, combined with not actually explaining anything besides his wife was ill, that it really was a bit pointless. The lead actor could not carry the film with the focus being of him in the cockpit, his reactions to the situation were one dimensional and unrealistic, as were his wife's. There was no explanation about how each player came into the 'plot', and the vague pointers to it were uninteretsing and did not make sense and there was no conclusion. It was as though someone scribbled the very basics for a movie on the back of small napkin, but forgot to finish it and then the director assumed it was finished and just said, read your lines, it's Ok, I don't think I'll direct today, I'm having a cuppa instead.. Annoyed I wasted my time. I think Radcliffe may do better when he has others to bounce off and maybe some direction and plot.With so many talented writers and directors out there, I don't understand why so much rubbish has money thrown at it or is given airtime.