Beast of Burden

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Beast of Burden

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2018

1h 29m

Mystery & Thriller

Action

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Pilot Sean Haggerty must deliver a shipment of cocaine across the U.S.-Mexican border for his final run as a drug smuggler. Alone in a small plane, he's faced with the burden of his allegiance to the cartel, his deal with the Drug Enforcement Administration and his increasingly tense relationship with his wife.

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Kenneth Turan

Los Angeles Times

"Beast of Burden" places a number of burdens on the audience, almost none of which are worth enduring.

Feb 22, 2018

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Derek Smith

Slant Magazine

The film's flashbacks, which are either too clipped or excessively scored, effectively step on the actors' toes.

Rated: 1.5/4

Feb 19, 2018

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Mabel Salinas

Cine Premiere

There are too many themes introduced that end up leading nowhere. [Full Review in Spanish]

Rated: 1/5

Feb 8, 2019

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Jason Best

Movie Talk

Strapping us into the cockpit of a single-engine plane beside pilot Daniel Radcliffe, this high-concept low-budget thriller tries to do in the air what Tom Hardy's 2013 road movie Locke did on the ground.

Rated: 2/5

Jan 29, 2019

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Jacob Knight

Birth.Movies.Death.

Every design element is working in sync to never let us feel comfortable, creating a remarkably cramped ambiance.

Apr 3, 2018

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Musanna Ahmed

Film Inquiry

A single worthy performance is held back by a substandard script, narrative structure, and just about everything else. Daniel Radcliffe is very good. The film itself, not so much.

Mar 28, 2018

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Captain M

One of the most painfully boring,badly edited,and laborious movies I have ever had the displeasure to watch. By the time the movie draws on its final half hour, You're hoping everyone in the movie dies because there's no one in the movie worth rooting for but the predator drone.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/14/25

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Wade W

This movie was so boring. Most of the movie was him sitting in a plane talking on a cell phone to various people. Don't watch it.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/16/23

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samuel l

In a word: dreadful. A completely implausible plot, no tension, suspense, or thrill and therefore poor pacing, a ridiculous number of phone calls, unconvincing acting, undeveloped, generic characters, constant short flashbacks, budget CGI, blatantly fake sets/props, overly dark visuals, leading to horrible compression on streaming services, and a silly, booming soundtrack that was laughably inappropriate make this a film to avoid. It's basically a badly made mix of Locke and American Made, with no redeeming qualities.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

Prima mezz'ora a dir poco confusionaria, si capisce ben poco della trama; e anche quando diventa più comprensibile rimane comunque ai limiti del surreale. Veramente per qualche kg di droga si abbatte un drone in volo con una pistola??

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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Audience Member

Very slow. Only picked up in the last few minutes.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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Audience Member

Its almost as if critics are so afraid to say a single bad thing about Daniel Radcliffe, that after Harry Potter it's almost always how the movie let him down, or how even his great acting could not save a bad movie. Let's be frank, everything was bad here.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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Pilot Sean Haggerty must deliver a shipment of cocaine across the U.S.-Mexican border for his final run as a drug smuggler. Alone in a small plane, he's faced with the burden of his allegiance to the cartel, his deal with the Drug Enforcement Administration and his increasingly tense relationship with his wife.

Director: Jesper Ganslandt
Producer: Mary Aloe, Jeff Elliott, Chad Moore, Dan Reardon, Paul Schiff, Jake Shapiro
Screenwriter: Adam Hoelzel
Distributor: Momentum Pictures
Production Co: Paul Schiff Productions, Aloe Entertainment
Rating: R (Language and Brief Violence)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 23, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 23, 2018
Runtime: 1h 29m

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