Fantastic Fest Day 7
Once again I was disappointed that one of my most anticipated movies to watch at the festival Wolfhound was once again canceled. But alas one of the highest praised movies I heard by word of mouth was playing today: The Beautiful Beast. 110 minutes later I was in awe and shock by what I just saw.
The Beautiful Beast aka La Belle Bete
Have you ever thought that you would rather get kicked in the balls or be subjected to eating your own creampie before watching a particular movie again? Well thats exactly how i felt after watching this piece of shit! How do i even start to rip this a new one? Do i start at the stupid boring plot that makes no sense at all? How about the boring cinematography and slow pacing. How about the nonsensical actions all the characters took throughout the whole movie. How about even if all that did make sense the movie was so damn boring and the characters so retarded you wouldn't give a damn anyways!
As best as I could make out the movie is about a dysfunctional family where the son is a social defunct misfit who cant do anything without being around his mother. The daughter is a conniving little weirdo who giggles and smiles all day for no damn reason. The mother is a widow that needs to be around her son to comfort him and to comfort herself.
The worst thing about this movie is all the questions that are unanswered. Is the mother and son screwing? If they are is every just once in a while or every night? Is the daughter jealous of her brothers attention? Does the daughter even miss the dead father? Does the boy have some kind of mental problem? What makes the daughter finally flip out on several occasions? How come 10 years pass by and the kids dont look any different than the beginning of the movie? Dont get me wrong im not all for dumbing down a moving and explaining everything single thing to the viewer. Im not like that at all but you do have to at least infer what happened or have your characters do realistic type behavior instead of "hey lets do the weirdest thing possible and the audience will buy into it"! I know this is based on a book so I dont know if its crappy writing in the book or the director totally changed the tone of it, I just know its boring as hell even if it all did make sense. There are no interesting shots, no fun or entertaining dialogue, theres not even any female nudity!
Im still pissed off just writing this review. Just heed my warning and stay as far away from this turd as possible. I would have walked out this movie half way through if i wasnt compelled to stay because I thought there would be no way the movie could suck this way all the way through. There has to be a killer ending or something to redeem it. But nope the 3rd act is just as bad as the first two. The only positive I can even think of in the movie is the soundtrack. Thats it, even giving that credit this has to rank up there with being in the top 2 or 3 worst movie theater experiences in my life.

Your time would be much better spent looking at this for 110 min instead