Beast: Australia’s first MMA film, starring Russell Crowe, is cheesy yet oddly comforting
The Conversation · 4 Jun 2026

Beast: Australia’s first MMA film, starring Russell Crowe, is cheesy yet oddly comforting

For a nation obsessed with professional sport, there is a surprising dearth of Aussie sports films. There have been, of course, a handful of memorable ones: The Club (1980), The Coolangatta Gold (1984) and, more recently, The Final Winter (2007). But apart from the low-budget 2024 film Life After Fi


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Australia's first MMA film, featuring Russell Crowe, combines cheesy elements with a comforting narrative. Despite a national obsession with sports, the country lacks a significant number of sports films.


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