🎬 The Beast of War (1988) Movie Review

Our first ever request for a movie review, The Beast of War (1988)!

During the war in Afghanistan, a Soviet tank crew commanded by a tyrannical officer find themselves lost and in a struggle against a band of Mujahideen guerrillas in the mountains.

The Beast (also known as The Beast of War) is a 1988 American war film directed by Kevin Reynolds and written by William Mastrosimone, based on his play Nanawatai. The film follows the crew of a Soviet T-64 tank who became lost during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The film has enjoyed a cult-favourite status in spite of its low box office statistics.

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-playwright-the-warlord-and-the-beast-ff77421d87b2

"In 1981, an American writer sneaked into Afghanistan following a dream. He survived—barely—and wrote a play that eventually became a movie. The Beast, which debuted in 1988, is about a Soviet tank crew that finds itself all alone in hostile Afghanistan."

https://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/2009-05-08/777955/

"His 1988 film, The Beast of War (aka The Beast), is a minor masterpiece of the form, a violently suspenseful psychological war movie that leaves viewers feeling as though they just watched some great, lost Samuel Fuller-David Lean collaboration. His 1994 film, Rapa Nui, takes place on an ancient Easter Island, presaging Mel Gibson's similarly themed Apocalypto by more than a decade, and Reynolds' last two films, a rollicking 2002 adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo and 2006's Tristan & Isolde (ill-cast but still unique in its take on the perennial star-crossed lovers), have been equally, eloquently grandiose in their conception if not, ultimately, their execution."