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Merely average. I must say I enjoyed it, though, it was entretaining and a love story always attracts me. It was a bit pretencious and it had far too many topics, the aborigin topic was a little too much, they overexploded it. And it was, at times, really cheesy.
NEVERTHELESS, it's visually stunning, the landscapes, clothing, scenery and cinematography are overwhellmingly breathtaking. I quite liked the story, I would have taken away some scenes and dialogues and I would have concentrated way less in the aborigins, the kid is great, but the grandfather's annoying, really annoying and corny. In other words, without the fluff, it's a lovely story with great visuals and great performances by Hugh Jackman (who's hotter than fire itself, dear God!) and the aborigin kid, he's adorable! Kidman is simply awful, really annoying and plain, she just stood there looking beautiful, which she no longer is due to overexcessive surgery!

It's one of the best movies I have ever seen, surely. It's grand and of epic proportions. It leaves you wondering why can't every movie be like this; elating and so sincere. The scenery, the acting and the story that unfolds; everything is great! Cheers!

In a few words. LOONNG and BOORRIINNGG! (Great cinematography though)

Nicole Kidman is the most over rated actress ever!

Along with many classics in cinema, the film Australia will go down in History as one of the key period pieces of our time. Amidst a beautiful scenic backdrop the actors are able to really stand out. Brandon Walters steals the show in his first performance and Kidman and Jackman make every member in the audience feel how palpable their chemistry truly is. Although this movie is not without its issues, the beginning is slow, the movie is a refreshing take of the bygone epic.

Sometimes editing makes a movie, more often than not poor editing can break them. Let The Right One In, the acclaimed Swedish horror film directed by Tomas Alfredon is unfortunately an example of the latter. Based on John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel by the same name, it's the unnerving story of a 12-year old boy named Oskar who befriends a mysterious vampire girl named Eli when she and her father move into his apartment complex. For Oskar (played by K

AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL! Especially because the scenery and cinematography are so beautiful and this could have been a sweeping emotionally true epic.

Instead under Lurhman's horrific overblown phony-baloney-sentimentality--there is not ONE TRUE BELIEVABLE emotion save for the little boy!

Every scene is telegraphed and derivative from other movies from gone With the Wind to The African Queen.

The character of Fletcher is more SNIDELY WHIPLASH minus the handlebar mustache! STAY AWAY FROM THIS AUSTRALIA!

Austrailia is a long dragged out affair. Baz took to many directions and didn't know what to focus on. It started out great and then the movie just went on to cover too many topics in an expensive tourism brouchure. I would have preferred if the movie covered one of the stories with detail then rushing to cover everything. For the CGI people who love tech in film. You will be sorely disappointed. The CGI was transparent. I know they filmed part of this in Austrailia but it seems they cut all the footage in the editing room.

After a seven-year period in which one project, an Alexander the Great biopic, failed to materialize (Oliver Stone's box office and critical failure pre-empted any other biopics on Alexander the Great), filmmaker Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge, Romeo + Juliet, Strictly Ballroom) is back with Australia, a sprawling epic that's part (Australian) Western, part wartime romance, with a superficial exploration of the so-called "Stolen Generations," half-white/half-aborigines who were forcibly taken from their parents and raised by Christian missionaries, through the experiences of one of the young lead and active narrator. Filmed at a reputed cost of $130 million dollars on location and on soundstages, Australia is, if nothing else, always spectacular. When it comes to dramatic or emotional pull, however, Australia falls short of Luhrmann's ambitions.

From her home in England, Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) receives word that her estranged husband, the owner of a cattle station in the Australian outback, Faraway Downs, refuses to sell Faraway Downs and their 1,500 head of cattle to King Carney (Bryan Brown), the local cattle baron. On her own, Ashley decides to travel to Australia, convince her husband to sell the property and bring him to England. Ashley arrives at Faraway Downs only to discover her husband's been murdered earlier that day, apparently at the hands of a local aborigine, King George (David Gulpilil). Ashley quickly takes charge, clashing with her late husband's foreman, Neil Fletcher (David Wenham), and, eventually, becoming a surrogate mother to Nullah (Brandon Walters), Neil's half-aboriginal son (whom Neil refuses to acknowledge).

To make Faraway Downs profitable, Ashley must deliver the cattle hundreds of miles away to Darwin, Australia, where the Australian military will take possession of the cattle, before King Carney does. Desperate for help, she turns to Drover (Hugh Jackman), an experienced stockman and cattle driver who drove her to Faraway Downs from the coast. Carney, however, has a lucrative government contract dependent on his exclusive control over cattle delivery. Along with Nullah, the bookkeeper, Kipling Flynn (Jack Thompson), the cook, Sing Song (Wah Yuen), Magarri (David Ngoombujarra), Drover's best friend, and Bandy (Lillian Crombie), one of the housekeepers, they set out for Darwin.

What starts out as a Red River-style cattle drive, complete with stampedes and natural and man-made disasters, gives way at the 90-minute mark to an old-school WWII romance, with Ashley, the epitome of English aristocracy, and Drover, the epitome of the working class Australian, clashing over their differences and social disapproval. Eventually the romantic conflict gives way to WWII proper, with Ashley, her newfound maternal instincts trained on Nullah, and Drover, asked to drive cattle for the Australian government, as the Japanese advances toward Australia. All of which gives Luhrmann the opportunity to put several computer effects company to work, with a spectacular attack by Japanese bombers and the immediate aftermath serving as the climax for Australia.

Luhrmann and his three co-screenwriters, Stuart Beattie, Ronald Harwood, and Richard Flanagan, obviously wanted to make an epic-style, period-piece adventure-romance. What Luhrmann apparently couldn't decide, however, was whether he wanted to make one film or two (or a mini-series), whether he wanted the audience to take Australia as campy melodrama or straight drama, and whether he wanted to treat the issue of the "Stolen Generations" seriously or just use it as backdrop for his epic romance. Nullah and his fate are treated superficially, with racial prejudice as the main obstacle to his happiness as both Ashley's adopted son and King George's grandson.

Still, it's hard to argue with Luhrmann's eye for visual compositions. Luhrmann has few contemporary equals as a visual stylist. Surrounding himself with a talented cinematographer, Mandy Walker and a talented production/costume designer, Catherine Martin (Luhrmann's wife), helps, of course. Luhrmann also deserves credit for reinvigorating and de-camping the theme song from The Wizard of Oz. Unfortunately, the lack of an original storyline and the absence of deep, relatable characters make Australia a superficially engaging film that'll be best remembered for its spectacular set pieces and visuals and, at least for some members of the audience, an ultra-tanned, white-toothed, super-fit Hugh Jackman washing off his torso by the light of a camp fire after a hard day's work driving CG cattle CG backgrounds.

I've been quite surprised at some of the reviews I have read. They've said that Nicole Kidman just stares and can't act. This was a beautifully filmed and acted movie. Nicole Kidman played her character excellently. Of course she huffed and puffed in the first portion of the movie because that was the nature of the character that she was playing. As her character matured and broadened, Ms. Kidman artfully changed her expressions and became a different person. She was lovely and I was interested and entertained throughout the movie. Hugh Jackman was amazing! Each Aboriginal actor was fabulous. I appreciate being able to learn more about the Aboriginal people than I knew before I walked into the theatre. So I rate this movie as a 10. It was a pleasure to watch and it will stay with me.