Cocaine Bear - The scoop and digest

Elizabeth Banks directs a premise high off its ass.

Keri Russell - Sari

O'Shea, Jackson Jr. - Daveed

Alden Ehrenreich - Eddie

Christian Convery - Henry

Brooklynn Prince - Dee Dee

Isiah Whitlock Jr. - Bob

Ray Liotta - Syd

Aaron Holiday - Stache

Summary

In 1985, drug trafficker Andrew C. Thornton II dumps duffel bags of cocaine from a plane and jumps out.

Silly sod knocks himself sparko on the door frame and plummets to his death after parachute fails to open.

A couple hiking in the Chattahoochee National Forest spot a bear smashing its head against a tree.

Creature becomes aggressive, killing the woman.

Probably on purpose, but opening is the same principle as Chrissie in Jaws.

As kids, park rangers, criminals and the police head for the woods today, they're in for a nasty surprise.

Extra scenes

Stache hitchhikes to New York with a bag of white powder.

Eddie gives Bob's dog to his son, only for Eddie and Daveed to realise that mutt has eaten Daveed's disconnected fingers.

After credits roll, the bear growls.

Drug-fuelled necessities

First off, the real bear didn't kill anybody, and what happened leading up to its death from an overdose is unknown.

Anyway, B-movie is just as batshit crazy as it sounds and definitely worth anybody's time.

CG is ropey, there's too many cooks and subplots going on, but action delivers the gory goods.

Jimmy Warden's screenplay relies on characters saying dumb things and multiple iterations of 'the bear did fucking coke' to get the laughs.

Quality varies, but humour works.

At one point, Ranger Liz does her best Pulp Fiction impression of 'shooting Marvin in the face'.

In loving memory of Ray Liotta.