From:
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John Jarratt takes a break from fighting rape allegations to have a go
at a giant boar.
I'll be honest and say that I think RAZORBACK is the high-tide mark of
Western civilisation so my expectations going into this were realistic - it's not going to be the best giant-pig-in-the-outback movie - probably no better than one of the 5 best movies ever made.
Sadly disappointed - this is crap even by Aussie movie standards. Special effects are of the "close up of woman wrestling with plastic boar head while someone throws buckets of red syrup" quality and normally reliable old hands of Oz cinema like Jarratt and Ernie Dingo completely forget how to act. Steve Bisley puts in the best performance with his six words (Get a fucking job, youse poofs) and it is a literal crime against humanity that he is only in
the film for one line.
I don't know if it was just my fevered imagination but bizarrely the best cinematography was inside the local pub which they somehow made look more impressive than the Australian outback. And no attempt whatsoever to explain why there was a minibus-sized pig walking around. Global warming, Sydney lock-out laws? You had Ernie Dingo - why not some cod-dreamtime bs?
One good thing - the boar is finely dispatched in a satisfyingly mundane
way. Someone should have just done that at the start of the film.
Rewatch RAZORBACK instead.
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