Australia

Genre: Romance
Watched With: Miss Hana @ GV Yishun (07/01)
Snacks: None

Crikey mate.

Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) is forced to leave England and come to Australia after her husband is murdered.
She has come to sell off their cattle station 'Faraway Downs' to Aussie 'cattle king' King Carney (Bryan Brown).

But it is at her cattle station that she chances upon a mixed-blood aborinal boy Nullah (Brandon Walters) whom she not only takes a liking to but he also convinces her to try and keep the ranch running after proving that the station manager Neil Fletcher (David Wenham) is working secretly for King Carney.
So now Lady Ashley needs the help of brash and free-spirited cattle-man Drover (Hugh Jackman) to save her cattle station.

But can she save the ranch?
And how does Nullah's grandfather King George (David Gulpilil) - the medicine man who was supposedly responsible for Lady Ashley's husband factor in?

So director Baz Luhrmann wanted to make his great Australian romance epic and i guess he finally did it.
He managed to squeeze a whole lot of stuff into a 3-hour long movie.
And that's just the probelm - it's 3-hours long.

He could have stopped at the 2-hour mark but noooooooooo he decided he needed another hour to put even more stuff into it.
This was after all - an epic - right?

Well I guess it wasn't so bad.
It was definitely a great vehicle to promote Australia as a tourist destination. The cinematography manageed to capture some really beautiful scenes and imagery of Australia.
Actors weren't too bad either. But to me veteran Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil really stole the show.
He may be old now but I remember when I first saw him as a fairly young man in Crocodile Dundee.

Go catch this movie it's not too bad.
If only it wasn't so bloody long. Mate. Crikey.

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