Cocaine Bear is very loosely based on a true 1985 true story of a bear that found missing cocaine from a drug runner’s plane.
The true story is just what you would expect, the bear eats the drugs and die. Not much to go by. Now, this frees up this movie to out of this world crazy. Cocaine Bear follows an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists, and teens who converge on a Georgia forest where a huge black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine. The movie title says it all. How much more can you ask when you see the title read Cocaine Bear?
As weird as the movie concept sounds, it does what is expected. You laugh and cringe at the attacks and the gore makes it different from what we are used to on the main screen. It’s like a blockbuster version of Sharknado.
The film provides a group of thankless roles with Keri Russell as a protective mother, Isiah Whitlock Jr as the cop involved in solving the lousy drug drop, Margo Martindale as the love-seeking park rangers, and O’Shea Jackson Jr, Alden Ehrenreich, and Ray Liotta who are looking for their missing drugs. Elizabeth Banks is behind the camera for this film with the script written by Jimmy Warden. I have no idea how they marketed the movie to the studio but I’m happy that this was made.
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