Please don't spend money on this.

Load of rubbish!!

Lack of good storyline.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

The racial stereotype of modern day Aborigines: deprived, disadvantaged, work-shy, illiterate, apathetic, living hopeless marginalised life's; prone to boozing themselves into oblivion.Was this film going to deviate from the stereotype to tell us something new, different, original? No.Non-actors doing a lot of non-acting. Don't give them too many, or any – in Samson's case – words to say; this mute inexpressiveness representative of how Aborgine's – in the wider society – have not been warranted a voice; they've barely any valid means by which to express their identity – other than flogging their tatty dot art; or authenticate their indigenous existence – other than being stuck away in isolated dusty tin huts, and left to, well – waste themselves away inside a vacuum of apathetic poverty.I didn't see Samson and Delilah as romantic lovers; more like inured victims torpidly wandering around one another with nothing much better to do. Chronic passivity seems to leech out their souls like some kind of fatal disease. Even the "action" scenes look limply acted; Samson whacks a bro on head. Bro whacks Samson on head. Delilah gets whacked on head by aunts and elders for letting her old nan die. But all this whacking feels faked; the sticks look hollow, the whacking lacks real fight or resistance. Maybe that's Aborigine Warwick Thorntons (director) point: Aborigines have lost their resolve to resist, their will to fight for themselves. So they give up, give in, without a protest, without a murmur. Stupefied victims.This passivity follows the film around like a mute little dog. Various horrible humiliations Thornton ticks off a checklist of offscreen accidents and abuses to contrive ongoing narrative; thereby giving a prick or two to the liberal conscience of white audiences; while tacking these Aborigine amateurs along, not giving them too much character to express or emote or saying to do. Thornton even casts his own brother Scott as a homeless alcoholic gonzo living under a fly-over; Scott repeats his dialogue like he were reading the script off the back wall. In other words, once again, the acting feels fake. Maybe something as contrived as "acting" is something yer old fashioned original Aborigine never had to do. Pretending – as in acting, and faking it better – is what yer new style inauthentic Aborigine is going to have to learn how to get a whole lot smarter at.But right now the attitude – as personified in this film – is: Aborigines can't really be bothered. Or if bothered, they have to be returned to the outback to shoot kangaroo living in state subsided tin shacks, isolated, disconnected, disappeared. But with original Aboriginal authenticity preserved, and with integrity somehow still in tact.An implausible, hopeful, "faked" ending. About as phony as the rest of the film had been.

"Samson and Delilah" isn't a badly made movie by any stretch of the imagination, but I nonetheless mostly hated it.It tells the story of two lonely teenagers in aboriginal Australia, pretty much discarded on the trash heap of Australian society (as is the entire aboriginal community if this movie is any indication) who go off together to eke out an existence of sorts in an unnamed Australian city. It chronicles in grisly detail their descent into drug use and homelessness, heaping one horribly depressing indignity on another until it becomes nearly unwatchable. It's not that I don't feel bad for people whose lives are like this. On the contrary, I feel terrible, which is why a movie that exists for no other reason than to make me feel as bad as possible feels like a sermon delivered by some righteous do-gooder full of lessons I've already learned.The last 20 minutes of the film do turn around and offer the hint of a happy ending, but it had already lost me by then and whatever even slightly positive conclusions the movie came to felt false.Grade: D

Did I see the same movie? I think I saw S&D on ABC TV a few weeks ago (already on free to air TV with no ads, must be a good movie I do not think) it had the same "actors" and "story line" IE non existent. So I must have the unfortunate experience. Who are these reviewers that give it a ten, were you paid? Comparing it with other Aussie movies is ridiculous, it must rate as the worst Aussie made movie of all time, and there have been some corkers. No wonder the Government tried to educate these kids and bring them into the twentieth century back in the fifties. There was one or two moments:- When the old woman slaps Samson about the head for stealing the community truck, nobody else seemed to care - should have been more of it. When Delilah is knocked down, it probably saved her life, the care she got in the hospital turned her around, they both would have been dead had that not happened!

It was total and utter rubbish. Made by an amateur; but because it was aboriginal the right wing blue rinse set have to say how good it was. It is insulting that they are mentioning this film in the same sentence as "Oscar". "You can fool some of the people all of the time - you can fool all of the people some of the time - but you can not fool all of the people all of the time".It was badly made, badly acted, and there was no 'direction' at all. Huge big gaps in the story, and the filming. A blank screen for half a minute or more, is not good theater.A big No for this one.