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<p>Nothing could prepare me for the final scene in <em>Beast</em>.</p>
<p>Not <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/idris-elba-fights-a-lion-in-beast-and-it-is-totally-fucking-awesome">our stellar review</a>, nor the weeks full of <a href="https://twitter.com/beastobsessed/status/1560731050967347201?s=20&t=0r9TRY7u3fVWJKTZU-nvWA">jokes amongst our staff</a> about The Daily <em><strong>Beast</strong> </em>(I mean, our Twitter handle is <a href="https://twitter.com/beastobsessed">@beastobsessed</a>, so) readied me for the jaw-dropping five minutes of pure ecstasy at the end of<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/idris-elba-on-eric-garner-mi-mandela-and-selling-weed-to-dave-chappelle"> Idris Elba</a>’s new action-thriller.</p>
<p>At the end of the film, Nate (Elba), an ER doctor, engages in hand-to-hand combat with a giant, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jaws-anniversary-newsweeks-1975-review"><em>Jaws</em></a>-sized lion. Read that again. Hand-to-hand combat. With a big honkin’ lion.</p>
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Universal Pictures
Nothing could prepare me for the final scene in Beast.
At the end of the film, Nate (Elba), an ER doctor, engages in hand-to-hand combat with a giant, Jaws-sized lion. Read that again. Hand-to-hand combat. With a big honkin’ lion.
