jotenkin muodoton, tavallaan. paljon mielenkiintoisia juoniaihioita, mutta niistä ei oikein kehitelty mitään. kuvaus upeaa, hyvät näyttelijät (etenkin Hugh oli mukavan karski ;) ), mutta kuitenkin vaan vähän pliisu.

Definitely not as boring as I thought it would be but waaay too long.

01/01/10 My first movie in 2010! It is a huge film – in scale, scope, look and feel. Little Nullah was brilliant! I think the film would have been entirely forgettable without himIt's just ... 15 minutes into the movie you work out who is the bad... (read more) 01/01/10 My first movie in 2010! It is a huge film – in scale, scope, look and feel. Little Nullah was brilliant! I think the film would have been entirely forgettable without himIt's just ... 15 minutes into the movie you work out who is the bad guy, and who is a good guy, and everything is just so predictable from there on. But ‘Rabbit-Proof Fence’ it ain’t...

Old fashioned entertaining epic all about yeh you guessed it, Oz!

but I'm a die-hard Luhrmann fan.

The photography is a knockout. All Australia needed was a script with a sustained story and a stronger sense of where, and how, tragic drama should take over from camp seriocomedy.

Australia tries to be a sprawling, romantic epic. Instead, it's a melodramatic exercise in tedium.

Baz Luhrmann's Australia isn't a history of the penal colony turned commonwealth, but Luhrmann's absurd, cliché-ridden filmmaking ought to be a jailable offense.

Comedy and tragedy, action and melodrama, full measures of quirk and swoon: It's just a plain good time at the movies.

Australia is so damnably eager to please that it feels like being pinned down by a giant overfriendly dingo and having your face licked for about three hours: theoretically endearing but, honestly, kind of gross.