Beast of War (2025) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

2025 · 1 h 27 m · English

Echo score 82

#18,630 3

Directed by

Kiah Roache-Turner

Starring

Sam Delich, Maximillian Johnson, Sam Parsonson, Jay Gallagher, Lauren Grimson, Tristan McKinnon

After their boat is sunk while crossing the Timor Sea during World War II, a young group of Australian soldiers must survive on a rapidly shrinking life raft. Stranded hundreds of miles from land, they face internal tensions, repeated enemy assaults, and the relentless threat of a massive, starving great white shark.