SummaryWhen civil war tears his family apart, a young West African boy is forced to join a unit of mercenary fighters and transform into a child soldier.
Directed By:Cary Joji Fukunaga
Written By:Cary Joji Fukunaga, Uzodinma Iweala
Beasts of No Nation
Metascore
Generally Favorable
79
User score
Universal Acclaim
8.1
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
79
90% Positive
27 Reviews
27 Reviews
3% Mixed
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7% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Oct 15, 2015
100
Fukunaga imbues this study of manipulation and manufactured loyalty with an unsettling degree of visual richness and lush natural detail.
Oct 19, 2015
90
Fukunaga’s hurtling camera and taut cutting keep Beasts of No Nation only just this side of hallucinatory, and Elba is the kind of titanic actor to kick it to a near-mythic level.
User score
Universal Acclaim
8.1
88% Positive
229 Ratings
229 Ratings
7% Mixed
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
5% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
Jun 28, 2020
10
"Beasts Of No Nation" served as a great reminder, as to why my tastes are constantly diversifying. I love war movies, obscure stories, period pieces, exotic filming locales and movies which paint vivid portraits of an otherwise obscure time and place. Without Idris Elba and his Oscar Worthy (but snubbed) performance, the movie might have failed greatness. With that said, every element from filming, directing to the sporadic atmospheric scores, all add up to make this movie emotional, awe inspiring and unforgettable. It lands in my top 10 favorite movies of all time, right up there with Slumdog Millionaire, Black Hawk Down, Avatar and Tron.
Jan 11, 2019
10
A great movie that really is a look into these kinds of conflicts that happen in Africa. It follows a young boy as he is going through Africa after his family killed by a ruthless faction. He runs and joins up with a militia that trains him into becoming a soldier so that he can get his revenge. Through his travels, he sees terrible things like death and pillaging of villages where he is conflicted with his inner humanity as it slowly drifts from him. A great gritty film akin to Saving Private Ryan or Full Metal Jacket.
Oct 15, 2015
88
It's the remarkable Attah, whose young face reflects a hellish journey, that makes this fierce movie a blazing, indelible achievement.
Sep 3, 2015
80
Fukunaga and his actors - especially the two leads - have managed to create a riveting drama which is suitably appalling.
Nov 3, 2015
75
Beasts on No Nation makes a terrific vehicle for Elba and a grim reminder that even if we’re tired of hearing of it.
Sep 2, 2015
70
While Fukunaga creates Agu’s world with an extraordinary attentiveness to detail, he hasn’t quite found a way to approximate the novel’s radically childlike perspective, or to bridge the gap between this child soldier’s psyche and our own.
Oct 11, 2015
38
Cary Joji Fukunaga’s artistry registers less as psychological imprint than as a measure of his professional bona fides.
Aug 20, 2016
10
Perhaps the greatest movie of all time. A movie that gives you an uncensored taste of the reality of third world countries in Africa where recruiting children into militias is a commonplace.
Jan 23, 2016
6
Amidst several fast-paced action sequences are several dark, contemplative looks at the troubles in this African civil war and the young boy caught in the middle. Cary Joji **** artistry is impressive - but many of the sequences feel unnecessary to the brutal story being told.
Oct 27, 2015
6
A brutal portrayal of the effects of war upon a child. Well acted and filmed in a manner that captures what it must feel like to be living within such terrible conditions. But the sometimes graphic depictions of violence, at times wades into "sadistic violence porn". I do not feel that showing the high definition gore adds anything too the horror of war, but that it only lowers the film making process to cheap voyeuristic violence. Art and creativity can carry the same depth without the plebeian bloods spurts.
Apr 24, 2016
3
Nope, did not care for this movie one bit, love Cary **** first season of True Detective & dig Idris Elba's Luther UK, but this flick left me flat, there are some pretty scenes but we've seen this story done before & I found it plodding & uninteresting. Was expecting so much more.
Oct 17, 2015
3
I was expecting so much from Beasts of No Nation, and I was super disappointed when it ended. Sure, the acting was amazing, and some of the scenes were very action packed and good, but between those scenes the film is a mess. The film was too long, and half the time were these unnecessary scenes, that if they weren't in the movie, the film would actually be much better. I was very disappointed with this movie, and I think you will be too.
Production Company:
- Red Crown Productions
- The Princess Grace Foundation
- Participant
- Come What May Productions
- Iam21 Entertainment
- Levantine Films
- Mammoth Entertainment
- New Balloon
- Oak Street Films
- Wonder Street
Release Date:Oct 16, 2015
Duration:2 h 17 m
Rating:TV-MA
Tagline:Child. Captive. Killer.
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Ghana Movie Awards
• 7 Wins & 13 Nominations
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 2 Wins & 5 Nominations
