Beast Of War

Well Go USA Entertainment (2025)

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5.4

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Action | Biography | Drama | Horror | War

Australia | English | Color | 01:27

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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.

Cast View all

	Mark Coles Smith	Leo
	Joel Nankervis	Will
	Sam Delich	Des Kelly
	Maximillian Johnson	Stan
	Lee Halley	Teddy
	Sam Parsonson	Thompson
	Tristan McKinnon	Bobby
	Aswan Reid	Archie
	Masa Yamaguchi	Commander Tetsuo Harada
	Lauren Grimson	Hazel
	Laura Brogan Browne	Susan
	Steve Le Marquand	Sergeant
	Jay Gallagher	Corporal #1
	John Sparke	Corporal #2
	Matthew Scully	Lone Soldier
	Denny Bernard	Soldier
	Harry Capner	Australian Soldier

Crew View all

Director	Kiah Roache-Turner
Writer	Kiah Roache-Turner
Producer	Michael Agar, Steven Boyle, Chris Brown, Clement Dunn, Ester Harding, Diana Le Dean, Ally Muller, Blake Northfield
Photography	Mark Wareham

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Edition details

Packaging	MKV
Nr Discs	1
Audio Tracks	Dolby Digital 5.1 [English]
Subtitles	English \| French

Personal

Owner	Jackmeats Flix
Location	Horror Disk 1
Purchased	On Oct 11, 2025 at Bone
Watched	Oct 14, 2025
Index	11574
Added Date	Oct 11, 2025 12:03:12
Modified Date	Oct 17, 2025 05:38:28

Notes

My quick rating - 5.7/10. Beast of War opens in 1942 with some basic training-camp setup, complete with nurses who clearly wandered in from another film entirely. After about 19 minutes of bonding, banter, and establishing that Leo (Mark Coles Smith) is our main guy, everyone gets unceremoniously punted into the Timor Sea when their ship is attacked. I will say that the period at least looks convincing.

From there, it’s eight soggy soldiers balancing on a makeshift raft, surrounded by fog, bullets from enemy planes above, and one extremely motivated great white shark below. Not a metaphorical one. A literal “I'm going to breach dramatically every ten minutes like I’m auditioning for my own spin-off” shark. Half the movie is just this thing popping up like it’s trying to figure out its best camera angle.

Credit where it’s due — the camerawork is solid. A lot of shots sit right at water level or just beneath it, which does a great job of keeping your stomach clenched. The effects are surprisingly convincing, too. When the shark hits, it hits. Even when it’s bordering on aquatic self-parody, it still looks mean enough to ruin anyone’s swim.

Given this comes from Kiah Roache-Turner — the guy behind the insanely inventive Wyrmwood films — I was hoping for a wilder take. Instead, it plays things pretty straight. No zombie sharks. No improvised spearguns made from human femurs. Just a classically structured survival thriller. It’s familiar. Maybe too familiar. There’s nothing here you haven’t seen in Jaws, Open Water, or every Discovery Channel Docudrama at 8 pm.

Still, familiar doesn’t always mean boring. The acting’s solid across the board. The tension works. The pacing keeps things tight enough. Roache-Turner was also able to find a way to inject other predators aside from the shark. The worst of all, Humans. And I’ll give them props for the ending — let’s just say someone gives a hand in a way I didn’t see coming.

Overall, it's enjoyable enough shark warfare, but if Bruce the Shark took fewer selfies, I could’ve believed it more. A decent float, but not quite a bite.

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