Looks Great
Some of the best looking cinematography in a long time, interesting story and setting, great cast and acting. Hope this fine Aussie movie finds an audience.
shareAbsolutely agree. It does look excellent. However, I found the plot a little
all over the place. Major questions for me were, what the motive for killing the girls and why no real attempt to conceal the bodies? If you were running a drug op and wanted to stay under the radar, you'd hardly be leaving bodies around the place.
However, I found the plot a littleSame here, whilst agreeing with the OP that the cinematography and casting was first class.
all over the place.
There just seemed to be loose ends every where left for the viewer to ponder.
As you noted, what exactly was the motive for killing the girls and why just leave their bodies lying around? It made no sense.
Whilst the Queensland location shooting was extremely convincing in portraying the rural town with the high aboriginal population, the police operations made no sense whatsoever.
Tony Barry who played the officer in charge is a very well known Australian character actor, but frankly looked way too long in the tooth to be still running a police station.
Even after the first murder there should have been media crews there from the major metropolitan centres. The film would have you believe that murders in rural Australian towns are just run of the mill attracting no interest from anyone. And let's not forget the murdered policeman from the previous year.
The OIC wouldn't just handball the murder to his one and only aboriginal detective and then proceed to give him absolutely zero support and encouragement. But that again is what we are expected to accept.
Finally, great shootout at the end. But Jay just drives off and doesn't even call it in? Hello? There are bodies including dead cops everywhere and the investigating detective doesn't even radio for back up. Wow! Is it any wonder I'm still scratching my head.
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Finally, great shootout at the end. But Jay just drives off and doesn't even call it in? Hello? There are bodies everywhere and the investigating detective doesn't even radio for back up. Wow! Is it any wonder I'm still scratching my head.
Yeah, the shootout was better than I expected. Especially the long range shootout between Kwanten, Hugo and Aaron.
I guess the end could be perceived as him just not caring anymore. I might be alone here, but I think it would have been better if they had ended the shootout scene with him standing around all the bodies, maybe panning out as he picked up his phone or radio, then show him visiting his family later, in different clothes, new car etc. to show time had passed. share
I think it would have been better if they had ended the shootout scene with him standing around all the bodies, maybe panning out as he picked up his phone or radio...Yes, very much agree. Jay, who's wounded, just driving off and leaving all those bodies, drug and guns there without radioing for help was just bizarre. share
I think fearing the worst for his daughter having found her necklace in car he instinctively went to the what was the family home, hence the look of relief and tears when he saw his daughter sitting on the steps.
The other girls who knows what or who killed them, did they have any connection to the drug dealers, were they attacked by the mystery dogs, or were they simply the victims of a truck driving serial killer.
It doesn't really matter as far as I'm concerned, it was a good movie which I thoroughly enjoyed, ok so there are a few unanswerable questions but for me the ride was so enjoyable there is plenty of room left for forgiveness.
Aaron Pedersen I thought did a job well done.
...did they have any connection to the drug dealers...They were having sex with them at that hotel Jay went to where he interviewed the female manager. The girls clearly weren't killed by dogs. They were murdered. The first had had her throat cut. I think the second was either shot or stabbed. share
Watched it last night.
As the OP said, looked great....but the various loose ends ruined it a bit.
Motive for killing girls - no idea, but as cop was involved, maybe they were killed because they knew too much?
The necklace in the car - surely the bad guys would have noticed that? (By the way it wasn't his daughter's but the first victims).
Just leaving the final shoot out scene - no idea on the range of police radio, but maybe he was so far out in the bush he was out of range and also had no mobile signal.
Plus also (as has been mentioned), Jack Thompson's part didn't seem to have much to do with the story at all, but I suppose since they were able to get him as part of the cast they had to write something for him.
What I'm stumped about is the constant referencing of wild dogs. Now I know they are a real problem in rural areas, particularly QLD and northern NSW, and that the truck driver found the body because he heard a dog. Though at the end there were dogs barking almost senselessly? Did it provide a purpose? Was it a hint towards the wildness of remote QLD? Or with the khaki police uniforms, was it supposed to be NT? Or were the wild dogs simply a reference to Ivan's childhood?
I thought about the radio and am just going to pretend it was damaged in the shoot out. Also, as soon as I heard the wild dogs, I think he was deliberately leaving them there for the dogs to start eating before the police show up.
shareI think he was deliberately leaving them there for the dogs to start eating before the police show up.OK! Well I guess that's a different approach for Jay to take. share
Absolutely agree. It does look excellent. However, I found the plot a little
all over the place. Major questions for me were, what the motive for killing the girls and why no real attempt to conceal the bodies? If you were running a drug op and wanted to stay under the radar, you'd hardly be leaving bodies around the place.
One of the main points of the movie is, the authorities do not devote sufficient resources to finding the killer of "a couple of black girls" (as the chief puts it). The bad guys rely on this, in putting minimal effort into covering up the murders.
As for the motivation of the killers, it's explained by GropeForLuna in the following thread (spoiler):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2236054/board/flat/225098084?d=233322773#2 33322773 share