Australia
by Baz Luhrmann
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Actor: Bryan Brown, David Wenham, Hugh Jackman, Jack Thompson, Nicole KidmanDirector: Baz Luhrmann
Brand: JACKMAN,HUGH
Cinematographer: Mandy Walker
Composer: David Hirschfelder
Editor: Dody Dorn
Editor: Michael McCusker
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 165 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-03-03
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Australia
Movie Review: Very contrived and totally uninteresting
Summary: 1 Stars
I was so disappointed in this movie. It was like a film 101 project. Someone had an outline of what an epic movie should be and they just went down the outline executing each point. Nicole Kidman wasn't the least bit believable in this role. So stiff and mechanical. It seems she was just in it for the paycheck and the typical Kidman in bed shots. I really wanted to like Hugh Jackman but he was just there for scenery and didn't contribute much to the film. There was absolutely no chemistry between Kidman and Jackman.
The mysticism throughout the movie was a distraction and did not fit in the movie at all. The young boy and the king were the only two interesting characters. Save 165 minutes of your life and watch something else.
Summary of Australia
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 3-MAR-2009
Media Type: DVD
Watching the early reels of Australia, there's certainly no doubt who's in charge: this could only be a film by Baz Luhrmann, that wacky purveyor of all things over-the-top. In this old-fashioned, 165-minute hymn to his native continent, Luhrmann travels back to the late 1930s/early '40s, for a scenario that would not have been out of place at MGM in that era. Straightlaced Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) journeys Down Under and is put under the protection of--crikey--a rugged cattle driver known only as the Drover (Hugh Jackman). When the two are forced to team up (along with a motley crew of misfits) to take a herd of cattle through the hostile landscape, their way is challenged by the dastardly plans of the local beef baron (Bryan Brown) and his elaborately evil lieutenant (David Wenham). At some point you realize that this film's main commodity is not cattle, but corn: Luhrmann piles on the melodrama and the old-school climaxes with his usual frantic glee. Employing "When You Wish Upon a Star" and the Japanese air force to make his case is not beyond Luhrmann, and he reaches big here. Those with a taste for un-ironic silliness might just go for this stuff, but even fans of the Baz will have their patience tested by the broad comedy and the absence of discernable chemistry between Kidman and Jackman. Australia does manage to skewer the culture's prejudices against the Aboriginal people, but in this context such a victory comes across as rather tinny. --Robert Horton
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