Film Review - Cocaine Bear (2023)

 Cocaine Bear is based off of a true story and is directed by Elizabeth Banks and the story takes place in 1985 when a plane load of Cocaine goes missing from a flight only for some of it to be found in a national park where a wild Bear manages to ingest some of it and goes on a rampage through the forest and some of the drug dealers (Alden Ehrenreich, O’Shea Jackson Jr and Ray Liotta in one of his last film roles.) are scrambling to find it while a young mum (Keri Russell) tries to find her missing kids.

Cocaine Bear pretty much does what it says on the cover in the video shop, its about a bear that does Cocaine and goes on a rampage and I had a good amount of fun with it, the film under Banks’s direction manages to find the right amount of silly humour and sincerity that had me laughing with it instead of at it and enjoying some of the gruesome bear kills that earn that MA rating in Australian cinemas.

As for the cast they’re fine, Ehrenreich and Jackson Jr are a fun pair while Liotta is good as well while also reminding film fans that they’ll miss him now he’s no longer with us, Russell was good as well and that was nice to see after the Rise of Skywalker so badly wasted her in a nothing role back in 2019 while the kid actors Christian Convery and Broklynn Prince are fun as well.

And so that was Cocaine Bear and its good fun and does what it sets out to do nothing more, nothing less and I had a good time with it, 3 out of 5.