Film Preview: Beast (2026)

Film Poster

Page Revisions:

(March 8, 2026) Original
(March 22, 2026) New Trailer (#2) — New Poster (#3)

Release Date:

April 10, 2026

Synopsis:

From IMDb: “MMA legend Patton James, now a commercial fisherman, is pulled back into the cage when his brother is put in danger. Reuniting with his old coach Sammy, he commits to one final showdown against brutal ONE Championship champion Xavier Grau.”

Poster Rating: C (2) / C+

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Review: (#1-#2, C) These character posters establish the cage fighting motif with staid lettering that never finds a way to excite the viewer. Perhaps fans of cage matches will be enticed but few others will.

(#3, C+) You’ve got the cage match element identified but the Russell Crowe insert is comically bad design.

Trailer Rating: C / B-

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Review: (#1, C) The countless boxing dramas over the years have left the genre feeling a bit antiquated. Mixed martial arts and cage fighting have tried to step into that genre with new material but they all feel cut from the same cloth and rarely do they generate the kind of excitement that would distinguish them from the films that have come before and this trailer struggles to find a good tack to do so.

(#2, B-) With a movie like this, infusing plot details can only help and the end result is something that’s still a pretty tepid narrative concept but it adds just enough interesting elements to suggest a movie that might be a cut above most late-career, vainglorious star-turn movies.