Am I the only one who loves this movie? When I first started watching it I admit I didnt think it would be much, but I was surprised! Russell Crowe was great (as usual) and the cinematography I thought was outstanding. If you get a chance give it a try! I highly recommend it, especially Russell Crowe fans!
shareI love it too, such a sad ending
I laughed so hard when the Japanese Husband is looking at the gun and shoots the guy next to him and is like "Oh...hm"
I love it also. Great movie, though I didn't know I had the option of subtitles so all the scenes in Japenese were...in Japenese. I was really confused but I've seen this movie at least five times now (w/ and w/o subtitles). I love the ending, but I had a question about it.
Okay, Colin and Midori are in the flaming car, both wounded badly. They are upside down, and Midori reaches over and touches his lips and then her own (which I get) but we see Colin swallow and still breathing. My question is, was that intentional? Or was that a goof? Was he dead after the crash or did he burn in the fire? Because that's messed up that Midori shoots herself and he burns. Or are they now both dead and they swallowing was amistake and we are to believe he's dead so she shoots herself?
Great movie anyway, love Crowe and his sexy but different sideburns. He truly is a spunk.
I only saw the last half of the movie just now on IFC, but I really enjoyed. I would have enjoyed an ending not necessarily happier, but say if they drive right into the ocean or something, but it was still very good. Hopefully I will see it in it's entirety sometime.
shareI wouldn't if I were you, half of it is bad enough. I thought it was a really poor movie or at least badly written and directed. For a while I thought I was watching Mary and her little lamb. No matter where they went the pursuers were sure to go. The height of lunacy being the crazy husband, who had absolutely no basis for figuring out where they went, being able to follow them as if they were sending out signals. And then, out of the blue, he decides to leave the highway and drive to a remote sheep farm, miles from anywhere, to make enquiries. And manages to see a photograph. Oh, I don't want to even think about it any more, it was total rubbish.
shareI see what your saying but I have to ask...
How many young blonde bi Japanese women do you think are tooling down the road deep into the outback? She would have been as easy to follow as a hippo in a wading pool.
As for the Afghani mobsters the story makes it clear they were waiting for his name to pop up on a hotel registry. That was a perfectly respectable plot convention.
to MJK1,
You were not paying very close attention. The Japanese husband does not just randomly find the sheep farm. First, he mapped out their trajectory because he heard of the bank robbery, which was obviously them, then he started asking people in the area if they had seen his wife (not many Japanese women around). This is how he finds the wheelchair-bound accordion player who, under torture we can presume, informed him of the sheep farm. If you had paid attention you would remember that earlier Colin told him where he grew up and who his dad was, and the guy said he had worked there.
i totally agree. i saw it on IFC a few months ago, and boy did it tug on the 'ol heartstrings. good film. I think we all wish we could find love like that at some point or another.
shareOut of all the Australian films I've watched, this still is my favourite one, and there are quite a few Australian films I like, so that is saying something. For me, everything about this film works: characters, plot, acting, etc. It just simply did it for me. Awesome film, 'nuff said.
BTW, just one question. One of the previous posters said that the Japanese girl is bi. How did you come to that conclusion? I don't remember even one time when it's implied she's bi-sexual.
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Great movie. The guy who plays "ride of the walkyries" with accordion is amusing :D
I'm just a bloody normal bloke. A normal bloke who likes a bit of torture.
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