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Film reviews: HEART OF THE BEAST; FORGOTTEN ISLAND; THE HIST...
Three new films send their heroes on very different quests.
Heart of the Beast Paramount Pictures Heart of the Beast *** The simple, basic survival narrative here is so effective—and the central relationship so convincing—that it’s kind of a bummer whenever director David Ayer and screenwriter Cameron Alexander decide to over-complicate things.
It focuses on retired U.S. Army Special Forces soldier James Belmont (Brad Pitt) and his combat-trained dog Odin (Uber) on an Alaskan camping trip, which turns into a perilous ordeal when James has a heart attack at the controls of his Cessna and crash-lands in the wilderness.
The largest chunk of the narrative…
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