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August 05, 2005
The Beast of War (1988) aka The Beast
The Beast of War (1988) aka The Beast
Damn, this was one good war picture. I started out thinking this is a direct to video average film with a SAG scale rate cast, but after 45 minutes I really began to be enthralled by this tale of a fragmented Russian tank crew's experiences during the Afghanistan conflict.
This is much more a character study of the crew dynamics than just another action-in-the-desert storyline.
And hey, it's about a Tank, one of the coolest, the Soviet T-62 (although more than likely T-72s were used in Afghanistan)
Don't get me wrong, this is not an earth shattering dramatic piece, but the whole is much more than the sum of the parts.
Rating: 6
Posted by mark at August 5, 2005 09:05 PM
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