Australia

PG-13 6.6
2008 2 hr 45 min Adventure , Drama , Romance

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.

  • Cast:
    Nicole Kidman , Hugh Jackman , Essie Davis , David Wenham , Bryan Brown , David Gulpilil , John Jarratt

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Reviews

Scanialara
2008/11/26

You won't be disappointed!

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Vashirdfel
2008/11/27

Simply A Masterpiece

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Pluskylang
2008/11/28

Great Film overall

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CommentsXp
2008/11/29

Best movie ever!

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wendymareadawson
2008/11/30

Why didn't someone tell Hugh Jackman - who should have known anyway - that Australian stockmen don't crouch over their horse's necks when they ride, or gallop horses past the homestead ad nauseam. And the pigeon english as spoken by the indigenous Australians in this movie is cringe inducing. And how did Jackman make it to Darwin when it was still burning, presumably from near Faraway Downs? Terrible movie, saved only by the beautiful landscape.

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Robert J. Maxwell
2008/12/01

A cowboy movie in almost all respects except scenery and lingo. (How do you say "vaquero" in the language of the Yir Yuront?) Unlike most cowboy movies it's hard to assess because it's really two movies sitting uneasily side by side. The first movie is DEFINITELY cowboy move. It has a lot of cows. Fifteen hundred head, reckons the expert drover, handsome, robust, dusty Hugh Jackman. A "drover" in 1940 Australia is just a plain old cowboy. He don't fancy sittin' in the big house and foolin' around with figures and such. He likes to be out there where a man can be independent and can breath fresh clean air -- if you don't count cow flops.Nicole Kidman, thoroughly unglamorized, is the new owner of Faraway Downs, a remote ranch that has entered a barren stretch,. She arrives fresh from England, all proper and prim and prejudiced. The American West had its Indians. The outback has its aborigines. She is gradually assimilated into the ways of the Antipodes and when her cheating foreman deserts her with all his hands, she gathers the Blackfellas together with Hugh Jackman and a philosophical drunk, the bags under whose eyes would inflate during a collision, and drives those 1500 head all the way up to Darwin, beating out the mean guy who runs the cattle business hereabouts, King Carney. King Carney is Bryan Brown, known to many through the "F/X" movies, now playing a grizzled monarch of all he surveys. Frankly, I missed Chips Rafferty, a whole generation's go-to Australian sidekick and guide.The score ranges from period renditions of Jerry Gary's famous arrangement of Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine" to Bach's "Sheep May Safely Graze." The landscape is epic. I love Australia and Aussies. The men outside the cities are into beer and sports. That's enough for me. But nothing else is epic in any sense. The writers have missed no opportunity for heroism and sentimentality in their most uncooked form. That drunken wise fool? Any experienced viewer has him pegged as toast, if not from his very introduction then most certainly after he befriends the cute little half-caste boy with the big black eyes and the belief in magic. The first movie ends more or less happily, a few deaths along the way not counting for very much, when Faraway Downs' functionality is restored, and Jackman and Kidman wind up in each others' arms and the cute little half-caste sits playing a harmonica in the moonlight.Then the second movie begins and it's darker in tone. Jackman, rather too quickly, is overcome by a yearning for the wide-open spaces again and takes off working on a six-month cattle drive for some other ranch. Jackman once had a wife, an aborigine, who was killed because she was an aborigine. Now we are introduced to her brother, Jackman's brother-in-law, who bravely puts into words the feelings that the self-contained, manly Jackson can not. The brother-in-law is toast. I'll skip the plot of the second movie except to say that everyone but Jackman is either dead or thought to be dead, until they reappear from bushes, all smiles.It's a long movie, as I said, long enough for two movies actually. It's full of colorful action and stereotypical characters. Once in a while it's good to relax and let an unchallenging and thoroughly familiar narrative run across the screen, even if it leaves behind nothing much more than insubstantial whirls of desert dust that soon settle back to earth and reveal the distant jagged hills and desiccated mud cracks of spaces totally devoid of life.

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SnoopyStyle
2008/12/02

It's 1939 Australia. Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) comes all the way from England to force her husband to sell his cattle station Faraway Downs. She suspects her husband of cheating. He sends Drover (Hugh Jackman) to drive her. Before she gets there, Lord Ashley is killed and Aboriginal elder King George (David Gulpilil) is blamed. She befriends Nullah (Brandon Walters) who is revealed to be King George's grandson. The station manager Neil Fletcher (David Wenham) has been trying to undermine Lord Ashley and working secretly with Lesley 'King' Carney (Bryan Brown) who has all the surrounding lands. King Carney is trying to negotiate with Australian Captain Dutton (Ben Mendelsohn) who needs the beef from Carney's near monopoly. When Fletcher is discovered, Drover and Sarah must lead a ragtag group to drive the cattle to market against Fletcher and his men.The movie starts off horribly broad. The overacting is annoying. The broad comedy isn't funny. Kidman is annoying and Jackman is trying to be Crocodile Dundee. The movie improves markedly once they get to Faraway Downs. The Aboriginals improve the tone by adding some seriousness. Baz Luhrmann is using the landscape like Monument Valley in the old westerns. He's making an Australian western epic. The old style doesn't always work. The characters are too broadly written. None of the comedy is actually funny. And the movie is about an hour too long. It could have been a good action adventure if it wraps up after the cattle drive. Instead, the movie keeps on going with a lot of melodrama and a Japanese attack.

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vailsy
2008/12/03

With the title 'Australia', you might expect to see a movie where this wonderful country and landscapes take centre stage. Perhaps a serious and historic movie. Unfortunately from the get-go 'Australia' tries to be awkwardly comedic, like it wants to be Indiana Jones or Blazing SaddlesThe title 'Australian Vacation' would've been more appropriate, with a cameo from Chevy Chase Both Kidman and Jackman are truly awful in this comedic setting. Being Australian themselves you would hope they would know better than to read the script and then still decide to audition for and star in this misadventure The Aboriginal actors are about as unlike regular Aboriginals as you could imagine. The kid narrates the story likes some kind of fairy tale Given that it's basically a comedy, it is ridiculously long at nearly 3 hours Overall this film is a total misfire

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