Love The Beast (2009)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:13
Rotten:8
Average Rating:5.3/10
Genre: Education/General Interest
Reviews for Love The Beast
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 3/5 |
Unless you share Bana’s worship of screeching tyres and throbbing engines then this is probably something you only really need to see on the small screen. Full Review |
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3/5 |
An indulgent but moving account of a decades-long love affair with his first car. Full Review |
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 2/5 |
Bana exudes downhome blokeyness throughout, but an hour of this will be enough for most, after which egomania fatigue sets in. Add another star if you’re a petrolhead, two if you really like Eric Bana and cars, three if you’re his mum. Full Review |
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2/5 |
An innocuous if not entirely successful attempt to convince “non-car people” about the joys of loving a 1974 Ford Falcon XB coupe. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Bana may not be a star exactly swaddled in charisma, but what mystique he did have is disassembled as comprehensively as that coupe's innards. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Slight but unexpectedly sweet. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Although it helps to be a car nut to watch this, Bana's unpretentious passion is infectious. Full Review |
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2/5 |
You would have to love Eric Bana and his souped-up old racer to appreciate this car-themed documentary. Full Review |
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1/5 |
This self-directed vanity project shows the actor as a decent bloke who keeps in touch with his old mates from home, but that goodwill is squandered by earnest interviews with fellow petrolheads. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Petrolheads can probably go ahead and add an extra star but otherwise Love the Beast is a likeable and occasionally moving documentary, even if it's not quite the success it could have been. Full Review |
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'non-car people' will find themselves forced into the position of disengaged anthropologist, observing all the vehicular bump and grind without gaining any real insight or emotional connection from the experience. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Through narration, interviews, and cinematographic fawning over their chassis, classic American cars are celebrated for their imperfect character, which makes them seem vibrantly alive. Full Review |
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Bana's easygoing manner and a lingering sense of nostalgia build a mellow mood overall, while shrewd editing by Conor O'Neill and a rocking Aussie soundtrack pump up the volume on the race sequences. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Although it's the shiny red 1974 Ford Falcon coupe that occupies the screen time, it's Eric Bana who engages in this very personal look at the boy from suburban Melbourne, Australia who might have been a racing car driver. Full Review |
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Bana packs plenty of visual grunt for revhead auds, but his misty-eyed narration and awkwardly staged probing of man-car love with an Oz TV psychologist veer close to vanity-project potholes. Full Review |
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Digs enthusiastically into the rarely seriously discussed issue of the bond that can exist between man and machine. Full Review |
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Slight but engaging. Full Review |
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2/5 |
It is diverting for a few minutes, but the enterprise really needs something more interesting than one man's relationship with his car. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
Love The Beast has the mellow glow of affectionate nostalgia for the kind of solid construction and steadfast mateship increasingly hard to come by in these prefab times. Full Review |
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2/5 |
More than anything, Love the Beast testifies to Bana's need to be liked. As an onscreen presence he exerts visible control over every scene, while as a director he largely avoids tackling painful material head on. Full Review |
CommentLatest News for Love The Beast
November 16, 2009:
Eric Bana talks Love the Beast - RT Interview
Not a lot of people know that actor Eric Bana, familiar to most from roles in the likes of Star Trek, Munich and Ang Lee's Hulk, is a massive petrol head. With the release of... More...
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