The movie, “Among The Beasts” is incredibly out-of-order and difficult to appreciate. Despite its many flaws, some suspenseful moments combined with action and clever dialogue implies that there is a somewhat decent plot contained in the movie. However, that good reveal is hidden behind a poorly constructed and dull story which takes 40 minutes just to get started.
This film revolves around child trafficking where a mobster’s daughter teams up with an ex-Marine to hunt down the traffickers. These portions are done autonomously without cop support.
There needs to be a clearer improvement between the screenplay and the editing given that we don’t meet the daughter of the mob family until midway through the film. That tells you how poorly constructed the movie is as it completely lacks any riveting pace to sustain it.
The movie starts with a grown man and a young girl visiting a vet. Their relationship is not defined in between the two scenes, but there definitely is an asthmatic pug to spice things up a bit. “You are making a mistake” he growls at a fool who is brazen enough to try and test him. “You Alone.”
Another mug hears Go sit in the corner and think about what you’ve done and does just that.
The viewer has to work out what relationship Paul had with the girl and her family, and all the while, they are painfully slow in coming. It does not help the little girl at the vet’s clinic is missing.
“LT” is short for “Lieutenant.” Paul has some link to little Kayla’s family since he worked with her dead father. Her mother has a mess so it is the older sister who is a partial guardian who does have a bit of sense and makes sure they eat and get dressed who gives him slaps and orders when a lunatic snatches Kayla.
For a while, LT pushed through the favors, scratching the back of as many colleagues police as he could, and threw elbows in the roadside bar where the 12-year-old girl had disappeared. None. A year later, he’s deadened deep into a bottle and up his nose out of shame.
This is when Lola, the daughter of a mob, strolls in declaring she has a story of a lost cousin and with it a vehement partnership No cops, for clear reasons.
every piece is dedicated to relationships and every ‘introduction’ is an elaborate exercise in screenwriting. All of what I’ve mentioned might have been taken care of with a line or two of dialogue, a short flashback or two, and the rest. It is all background and back story.
In one of the long scenes, LT sits in a bar, allegedly in a post-cold turkey phase, and we hear ancient Vietnam Vets drone on and on blaming their war on the same people that Pentagon propagandists have always blamed.
We also attend a meeting for a scene that serves a lot less purpose than the writer-director hoped for.
There is ‘establishing’ who the character is and what the stakes will be in a quick outline and there is not knowing when enough is enough. Writer-director Matthew Newton did not get that memo.
Even the finale, when the hunters have crossed a number of moral and legal boundaries in order to get close to the objective, remains drawn and so sloth-like that you will find yourself screaming at the screen Get ON with it during the rescue effort which proceeds at a snail pace.
As a side note, if you have watched more than 2 or 3 sensationalized videos depicting child abduction conspiracies, you will appreciate my observation of the endless first act. “Among the Beasts” is painfully straightforward.
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