If a man-eating African lion going on the rampage sounds like your perfect excuse to go to the movies, then it's your lucky day. Beast has roared into cinemas across the country.
British actor Idris Elba has been a busy man, with two very different films opening within a week of each other.
One is called Three Thousand Years of Longing, and the other just feels like it. This is Beast.
Elba has taken his two daughters back to their late mother's South African homeland. They have a lot of baggage.
Before they can even start to unpack that, the trio and old family friend Martin (Sharlto Copley - white dude with the beard) find themselves stranded on the savannah where absolutely nothing is hakuna matata.
Near the village, the peaceful village, the lion most certainly does not sleep tonight. Two-legged beasts in the shape of ruthless poachers prove equally as threatening, with Elba doing everything he can to be a good dad.
Elba lion-wrestling in the bush should have been enough to warrant the time spent in a dark cinema and if you're bored enough it just might be?
But an eyerollingly silly script and a less than convincing performance from a rogue CGI lion ate away at all my enjoyment.
Two stars.