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Australia (2008)

Drama | 165 minutes
3,32 1.842 votes

Genre: Drama / Adventure

Duration: 165 minuten

Country: Australia / United States / United Kingdom

Directed by: Baz Luhrmann

Stars: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman and David Wenham

IMDb score: 6,6 (132.208)

Releasedate: 18 November 2008

Australia plot

"Welcome to Australia!"

Australia, just before World War II. An English aristocrat (Kidman) inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons are after her land, she reluctantly joins a rough drover (Jackman) to drive her 1,500 oxen across hundreds of miles of land.

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avatar van cantforgetyou

cantforgetyou

  • 1868 messages
  • 1621 votes

Ever seen in the cinema. Now again. Quite a fun movie. Nicole plays very well and with humor. I think the movie is way too long. That's a shame, because with some gluing and cutting the film would have been stronger. After this second time, I don't think I'll go see it again.

The landscape is beautifully portrayed.

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Roger Thornhill

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Romance, action, humor, sacrifice, wondrous scenery, a touch of supernaturalism, flamboyant camerawork, epic runtime, a PC subplot, hot-blooded renditions of a look of familiar Down Under actors, two villainous villains and two driven leads, and damn if it doesn't works, no matter how predictable it is. I'll never be able to get used to that ugly accent, and the fact that I think the running time could have been a little shorter immediately shows that I wasn't too carried away by this, but the film was certainly fascinating.

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Shadowed

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Moderate Luhrmann.

Seems like a director who is up my alley, but the productions he takes on are very much against his fresh and colorful style. So is this Australia, which pushes him into such a specific angle that you can't enjoy his style much anymore. In addition, after some time this film drowns in irritating and unnecessarily stretched sentiment.

And if it's not sentiment, then it's exaggeration. Kidman's shrewdness in the first half, in particular, was simply insufferable. After 40 minutes I was done with it, but then you still have to wait for a film of 125 minutes. It's definitely an epic story, so it's an understandable runtime, but I found Kidman's loud and exaggerated stuff really irritating. Fortunately, she recovered a bit in the second half.

Exaggerating your material and weird renderings of sentiment leads me to conclude that Luhrmann is a modern director saddled with a hopelessly old-fashioned producer. The collaboration didn't seem like anything, despite the film being pretty decorated and the effects being of a high standard. It's really the story itself that gets in the way of the film as a whole.

I therefore claim that every character, really every character, behaves as if Australia is a sugar castle. I can accept that it is based on a book and older times, but if everyone around me had behaved like these characters, I would have moved away long ago. The enormous playing time is therefore sometimes a serious task.

Fortunately, the final is somewhat spectacular and the structure of the first half is nice. After that you start to taste the rush a bit, but Luhrmann does his best to polish his product as much as possible. The problem lies more in the content than everything that surrounds it. Australia will unfortunately stay with me, but especially the lesser points.

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