Out of the Blue
by Robert Sarkies
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Actor: Karl Urban, Lois Lawn, Matthew Sunderland, Simon Ferry, Tandi WrightDirector: Robert Sarkies
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
Cinematographer: Greig Fraser
Writer: Robert Sarkies
Producer: Steven O'Meagher
Producer: Tim White
Producer: Timothy White
Writer: Bill O'Brien
Writer: Graeme Tetley
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Ifc
Movie Reviews of Out of the Blue
Movie Review: A Moving Re-Enactment of a Real-Life Tragedy
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie really puts you in the small-town New Zealand environment where David Gray went berserk one day and started shooting people at random. No slick production is made of this re-enactment. There are no stars, no special effects other than those necessary to re-create Gray's violent eruption. "Out of the Blue" has a simple hand-held, real-people feel all the way.
Neither is there any inflated attempt to explain the man's motives or psychology. However we can feel his rage building as we approach him slowly from behind, just looking at the back of his neck through the camera's eye. For a moment, we become the stalkers. We can feel the bristling on that neck as we stand behind him, peering over his shoulder as he scrawls angry notes to the world.
Then when Gray starts on his rampage, we sit with the frightened townspeople scattered here and there, hiding from the gunfire. It took the police a while to get word of what was happening and to get some forces out to this remote town by a spit jutting into the ocean. Once they did arrive, they were still helpless to stop the carnage. They didn't know the terrain. Gray did. He could dodge around among, into, and out of, the array of houses that made up this eclectic little town - now in someone's abandoned shack - now in someone's neat, abandoned ranch-style house. Or were these houses abandoned? Who had evacuated in time and who was left to hide in their homes? Gray could pop up like a gopher anywhere.
The experience that will probably stick with me most from this film was the waiting with one of the town's senior citizens as she hunkered down in her kitchen through most of a whole day and a whole night. She dare not move. Gray was shooting at anything he glimpsed moving in or out of any of the houses. So the elderly lady waited, just daring to creep to her refrigerator a few times. And then oh, that tell-tale flash of light when she opened the refrigerator door. As relatives got word of the siege and phoned her, they increased her danger. Every time the phone rang, there was a possibility that the sound would alert Gray to the fact that someone was still alive in that house.
Most of this film was not shot in Aramoana where the shootings actually took place. Feelings were still too raw among the survivors to subject them to a complete re-living of that reign of terror. However the producers did film in a nearby town with the same flavor and feel as Anamoana. And viewers re-live the event as it unfolds.
Summary of Out of the Blue
One horrific day, David Gray suddenly snapped. Based on the true story of a quiet, friendly town turned nightmare, Gray massacred those he'd known for all of his life, holding the whole town hostage through the night. A stunning portrait of a madman Out Of The Blue forces us to question the safety of our own communities and neighborly ties.Art House & International DVD Video
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