Once upon a time, deep in the woods by Georgia’s Chattahoochee River, a bear stumbled upon a cartel’s stash, ingested $2m worth of cocaine and … died. If the near-inescapable marketing for this movie had you idly wondering, “What would happen if a bear did a load of cocaine?” this is the underwhelming but factual answer, supplied by a 1985 news report.
That’s not much of a movie, however, so screenwriter Jimmy Warden has instead imagined what might have happened if that 175lb black bear had gone on a coke-fuelled murderous rampage. The result is this film, and not since 2006’s Snakes on a Plane has a title promised so much entertainment, so succinctly. But is this film, like that Samuel L Jackson vehicle, also fated to be blown off-course by the hot air of its own hype? And, relatedly, do bears defecate in the woods?
