Film Review - Heart of the Beast (2026)

Heart of the Beast is the new movie by David Ayer and stars Brad Pitt as a retired army sergeant who is travelling around the countryside with his combat support dog Odie when he suffers a heart attack and his plane crashes in the wilderness leaving them both stranded to find a way home and avoid perils such as wolves and bears and logs.

Heart of the Beast is a perfectly fine and enjoyable survival action film that is well anchored by Brad Pitt who brings a calm steadiness to his role while also selling the pain and loss of his army years and the battles he and Odie saw in their time in uniform, JK Simmonds is also good here but his role is really only in 2 scenes at most,

The real star here is Uber the dog who plays Odie and he is a very good boy, every time he came on screen with those beautiful doggo eyes, I was like “Awww look at the doggy” and he and Pitt are great together on screen and this movie wouldn’t work without Uber being as good as he is,

And so that was Heart of the Beast, an enjoyable survival thriller that is well made and has a good boy doggo at its centre, 3 out of 5