Elizabeth Banks’ balls to the wall carnage film about a bear high on cocaine is just simple chaos, that not only has a bear murdering people in gruesome ways but it’s also a film with a hint of an anti-drug message.

Cocaine Bear isn’t groundbreaking but what it does offer up is pure fun and carnage with a huge dash of the 80s and a nice little touch of emotion, also who doesn’t love a movie about a big ass bear high out of its mind causing mayhem and destruction?

Elizabeth Banks does tend to show her hand a little bit too early, and that creates an awkwardness in the film especially when it came the comedic moments, it’s got tons of dark humour and sometimes it lands and sometimes it doesn’t.

Cocaine Bear has an insane sequence featuring the bear in the ambulance everything about that scene bangs, and it highlights the film’s strengths.

Elizabeth Banks could have easily given us a chaotic mess but there’s some fine balance here, The bear is the star of the film obviously, all she does is go around the park looking for more cocaine to eat, get extremely aggressive and attack anyone who is in her path. 

Overall, I enjoyed myself while watching this, I was not bored but highly entertained. however, the film does feature moments where your mind can just drift off and the writing could have been stronger, characters could have been more fleshed out but overall this is one of Elizabeth Banks's better offerings.