When I sit down to write reviews, I dread doing the plot synopsis. How much do I include? With all the twists and turns in this movie, how do I break it down coherently? Then there are some movies where it's straightforward. 2006's "Snakes on a Plane" was one of those. All you need to know about the movie is in the title. Now there is "Cocaine Bear."

After millions of dollars of cocaine are dropped in the woods in Georgia, a bear finds some of it and eats it. Chaos ensues.

Here is the thing. The way to tell if you are going to like this movie is how you feel about the title. If you step into a movie with this title, you know what you are getting into. If the title is not to your taste, you are not going to find any enjoyment in "Cocaine Bear."

There are some brutal scenes where the bear, all hopped up on the drug brutality, kills some human characters. Much like the most recent "Godzilla" movies, the human characters are inconsequential to the story. They are just obstacles in the way of the bear getting more cocaine. They are there to add some heart to the movie, but it doesn't need it. The movie grinds to a halt whenever the focus shifts to the human characters. It's not that the performances aren't good; they are just barely there character-wise. These could be all nameless people, and it could be 90 minutes of a drugged-up bear mauling them, and it would have been more fun. The movie had a chance to be fun and go absolutely crazy with its sequences, but it held back too much.

If you are going to make a story about a bear on cocaine, commit to it.

7/10

Rated R for bloody violence and gore, drug content and language throughout

1hr. 35mins