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This slasher-comedy is the wildest movie experience of the year so far: BRIAN VINER review Cocaine Bear
Cocaine Bear (15, 95 min)
Verdict: Completely crazy
Classification: ****
This is a wild slasher comedy film in which the violent protagonist is imbued not so much with superhuman qualities as super ursine after becoming hooked on the white goo dumped in a botched smuggling operation at a state park in rural Georgia. in 1985.
Let me warn you that this movie might upset you in a different way, certainly if you think that a stoned bear is not a subject for fun.
The late Ray Liotta is seen in one of his final roles before his death earlier this year, in the first trailer released for the comedy Cocaine Bear, which shows a drug-addled bear going on a murderous rampage.
Let me warn you, this movie might upset you in a different way, certainly if you think that a stoned bear is not a subject for fun.
From left, Daveed (O’Shea Jackson, Jr.), Eddie (Alden Ehrenreich), Officer Reba (Ayoola Smart) and Syd (Ray Liotta) in Cocaine Bear, directed by Elizabeth Banks
It adds up to the wildest cinematic experience of the year so far, not only more thrilling than Damien Chazelle’s deranged Babylon, but running just over an hour and a half, thankfully only half as long.
It’s about the farewell screen appearance of the late Ray Liotta, and I hope it’s not too much of a spoiler to say that he comes out in unforgettably gruesome style.
But one of the craziest things to know about a crazy movie, exuberantly directed by Elizabeth Banks, is that it’s based on true events.
It’s true that Banks and writer Jimmy Warden have taken plenty of dramatic liberties, as cops, mobsters, teenage punks, a mother (Keri Russell) searching for her missing daughter, and a park ranger played hilariously by the great Margo Martindale all converge on the lost drugs. shipping, not realizing (at first) the dangers posed by the coke-fed bear.
But it adds up to the wildest cinematic experience of the year so far, not only more thrilling than Damien Chazelle’s deranged Babylon, but running just over an hour and a half, thankfully only half as long.
He also, by the way, treats us to the farewell screen appearance of the late Ray Liotta, and I hope it’s not too much of a spoiler to say that he comes out in unforgettably gruesome style.