Diagonaldi Very well executed

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Kodie Bird True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

freemanpatrick7 Great cinematography, decent acting, but a really dumb script. A dumb story about a stupid cop who doesn't deserve to live. And the technical direction is pathetic. Cooper passes out from loss of blood (or was that fear) yet later he can carry a wounded cop for who knows how long?Everybody keeps racking their shotguns without dropping shells. That means there was nothing in the chamber. So why are they running around with empty chambers?Bill said Cooper had never shot a bullet? They don't train cops to use guns in Australia?Just when you're wondering if Cooper is ever going to bleed to death he suddenly has enough strength to lift heavy tables and ride a horse at high speed, then jump off said horse.Cooper breaks the window of a car where the door is clearly unlocked.His wife isn't the least bit interested in why he's covered in blood.Apparently rifle shots into the air create ricochets. Against what, I couldn't guess.Not one cop in the whole town can hit what he's aiming at, until the end, then not one of the cops' stray bullets even comes close to Cooper.Whoever said this was like No Country for Old Men must have been hallucinating. It was just bad bad bad script writing, from the very beginning to the end. But hey, it looked good.

Phil Hubbs You could be forgiven for thinking this is a Clint Eastwood style period set western and that's exactly what I thought it was upon seeing the poster design and film title, in fact its set in the present day and is more of a homage to westerns. Being set in the arid merciless Aussie outback of course does make it more of cowboy than cop thriller for sure.The film is pretty unoriginal lets be honest about it, the layout and events are nothing new and do smell strongly of certain saddle bound Eastwood adventures but again..lets be honest here, its a damn good Aussie version of certain saddle bound Eastwood adventures. Beating around no bushes this is a strong violent retribution/revenge thriller that almost kinda boarders on 'The Terminator' in some building and street sequences with its light-less settings, strong shadows and mute anti hero killer.From the start you know something is amiss with the local police force and their gruff leader 'Old Bill', you can kinda tell what will happen really but it doesn't detract from the fun of the film one bit. The cast are unknown to me but pretty big in Oz. Bisley as 'Old Bill' is perfect and really comes across well as the hardened no nonsense chief whilst Lewis is great as the mute aboriginal gunman who at first is intimidating, almost robotic like in his swift killings, but you know all is not as it seems.The lead Kwanten does sort of over act towards the finale as he goes from being a regular guy to a strong stern voiced gunman brewing over with clichés but you feel the tenseness of the finale and you find yourself glued to the screen. Nothing really new to the table here but the whole film looks good and is well acted with a trusted source in the nasty revenge genre to always get the juices flowing, maybe some more nastiness to really bring home the need for revenge was needed though.Highly recommended and much better fair than the usual over hyped glossy Hollywood guff that was 'No Country for Old Men', this is gritty and more down to earth with realistic characters. The Oz factor of course helps this hugely. Still not so sure what the panther subplot was all about though, why was it needed? oh well.7/10

Spikeopath Red Hill is written and directed by Patrick Hughes. It stars Ryan Kwanten, Steve Bisley, Tom E. Lewis and Claire van der Boom. Music is by Dmitri Golovko and cinematography by Tim Hudson.Young city cop Shane Cooper (Kwanten) gets a transfer to Red Hill, a place he hopes is a quiet enough town for himself and his pregnant wife to successfully raise a family. But his arrival at work coincides with the escape from prison of aborigine Jimmy Conway (Lewis), who is heading into town with revenge firmly on his mind.Jimmy Conway has escaped and he's bringing hell into town.Utterly splendid Neo-Western out of Australia. For his feature film debut, Patrick Hughes has crafted a loving homage to the Western genre whilst also imbuing his film with its own suspenseful blood. Blending Ozploitaton thriller values with Western genre staples of the past, Red Hill unspools on narrative terms as a gritty and rugged revenge piece.Red Hill the town is fronted by gruff sheriff Old Bill (Bisley), he leads a pack of scuzzy characters who consider it their town and god help anyone who stands in their way. Into this maelstrom comes fresh faced Shane Cooper (yes the name is Alan Ladd and High Noon purposely spliced together), a genuine and honest copper harnessing a tragedy as well as a moral code that's not for shaking.After quickly finding out that Old Bill is lacking in human graces, Shane finds himself coming face to face with Conway, who is all the horsemen of the apocalypse rolled into one. Face badly scarred and adorned with weapons and duster, Conway seems to have supernatural resources to go with his expert tracking skills and knowledge of the surrounding outback terrain (so think High Plains Drifter & Chato's Land then).How come, though, that as he callously goes about killing off members of the scuzzy crew, each time he meets up with Shane, who is in full tilt survival mode, Conway refuses to kill Shane? And just what is that symbolic Panther doing stalking the edges of the landscape? One and the same, perhaps? It will of course all be revealed, and in truth it's no great surprise, the beauty is in how Hughes has toyed with our perceptions about Conway, this in turn makes for a cracker-jack finale.Performances are superbly in tune with the material, Cooper, Lewis and Bisley really manage to steer their respective characters away from being histrionic or cartoonish. Musically it features stabs of delightful grungy rock blending in with Golovko's mournfully ironic score. The widescreen photography is most interesting, in that there's often smart shifting between a washed out palette to emphasise the remoteness of the setting, to opened up capturing of the beautiful vistas (filmed on location in Omeo, Victoria). The Blu-ray is a must for anyone interested in the film.The sparse location is matched by sparse dialogue, there is no need for extraneous conversations or pointless filler, Hughes knows what he is doing. It's made with love and respect to one of the finest of film genres, and hooray to that! 8/10

Sergio Borrallo Tirado SPOILERS SPOILERS First, I would like to say 2 things: - I really love revenge movies. I really do. They are one of my favourite plots in movies. -I am super lazy about writing reviews. I really am. This is my first review. Why am I writing it so? Because THE MOVIE IS JUST TERRIBLE, one of the worst I've ever seen. I wont criticize the plot, or the acting, or the soundtrack. They are kind of OK. But jeez, they are some scenes that are AWFUL. So if u hate movies where silly things happen and no one cares, just don't watch this film. The panther scene (I get the point of the director, but cOme on); the revenge guy being some kind of Mexican ninja (with boomerang included, impossible to kill, with superpowers (I guess one of them is to make the people around him retarded, because come on, why no one can shoot him properly?)... It is all stupidly unbelievable and childish. But, OVER ALL, what the hell is the scene with the main character cover full of blood, in his house, and the wife asking him "did u cut your face?" "No, its only a scratch". And the guy half, dead, pouring blood, like a zombie. COME ON!!!! I really thought that the wife was blind and I missed this point in the beginning of the movie. But not, she is not. I guess her husband comes every night cover with blood from job and it is alright. Whatever... REALLY, HORRIBLE MOVIE, Don't WASTE UR TIME, IT IS SHAMELESS