Australia - Send In Your Review Entertainment 25 November, 2008 - 5:03 PM

Were you one of the first to see Baz Lurmann's epic movie Australia?

Was it everyone you hoped for or just plain boring?

Tell us what you thought of the flick.

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• Mel says

  This is a movie you love or hate. I LOVED it. It kept me on the edge of my seat. I thought the acting was great and I love Baz Luhrman's direction.

  Posted Wednesday 26 November, 2008 9:34 PM
• christina hunt says

  it was amasing the best aussie film iv seen in a long time you didnt even notice that it went for 3 hours because it was so action packed the whole time aswell as amoshonal i cryed most of the time and i would go and pay to see it again id proberly like to see a few more times on the big screen great movie loved it nic and hugh were greaty and that little boy omg so cute i wanted to take him home gorges kid

  Posted Monday 1 December, 2008 8:35 AM
• Jo says

  Me and my freind thought Baz had got it right, what a brillaiant and courageous protrayal of stolen generations in this country, the policies that kept Aboriginal people disempowered. yes it was dramatic in true Baz style. David Gulpillil what an Aboriginal actor, so powerful you can give him any role and he has got it! If only the Aboriginal stars get the same amount of money for their performance, the bot who played nulla should ahve had equal billing as nic and hugh as he was star of the show

  Posted Sunday 7 December, 2008 8:01 PM
• Writer's Block says

  What a disappointment. Unfortunately, Australia is more akin to watching a three-hour episode of Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman filmed in the style of Bonanza than an epic film set in the wilds of Australia. The characters are flat, and the film is predictable from beginning to end.

  I am not sure what was worse, the slow motion Mr. Olympia pose that Hugh Jackman (Drover) assumes at the beginning of the film to establish himself as the "love interest" or Nicole Kidman's (Lady Sarah Ashley) semi-reprisal of her character from Far and Away. At least Shannon Christie was believable.

  Even the cinematography was marginal. Either the character's reaction shots were filmed against a matte or the backdrops and the lighting were so poorly chosen that it looked as though a grainy image was set behind the actors in postproduction, either way it looked bad.

  The one redeeming quality of the film is that the character Nullah allows audiences to have a cursory glimpse into the culture of Aboriginal Australia. Moviegoers would be better served however, by watching the film's three-minute preview and reading about the subject. If you really feel the need to see Australia, buy a plane ticket to Darwin.

  Posted Monday 8 December, 2008 4:31 AM
• Cam says

  It was awesome... no other way to describe it... they say it didn't portray Australia very well... but if it was meant to be a documentary it would have said it...

  Posted Friday 26 December, 2008 4:31 PM

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