Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
Cast |
Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Bryan Brown, Brandon Walters, David Wenham |
Director |
Baz Luhrmann |
Screenplay | Baz Luhrmann, Stuart Beattie, Ronald Harwood, Richard Flanagan |
Music | David Hirschfelder |
Cinematography | Mandy Walker |
Editing | Dody Dorn, Michael McCusker |
Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
Made in | 2008 |
Produced by | Bazmark Films, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
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Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
Cape Argus / The Star Diane de Beer | 5 | |
Die Burger Mariana Malan | 10 | |
Cape Times Kenneth Turan | 10 | |
iAfrica.com Lisa Human Comes across as a sappy, contrived and overly long piece of nothingness. | 8 | |
The Citizen Bruce Dennill For all that it's set in the city of Darwin, this is a project that completely fails to evolve. | 8 | |
Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert Baz Luhrmann dreamed of making the Australian ''Gone With the Wind,'' and so he has, with much of that film's lush epic beauty and some of the same awkwardness with a national legacy of racism. | 15 | |
eye Weekly Jason Anderson This is most definitely the kind of big, blustery, pop-mythic epic that Hollywood doesn’t make any more but maybe we should be thankful for that — they’re bloody exhausting. | 10 | |
ReelViews James Berardinelli A would-be epic on a grand, David Lean-inspired scale, Australia falls far short of intentions and expectations. (One wonders whether rumored studio meddling has anything to do with this.) | 13 | |
Rolling Stone Peter Travers If looks were everything, director Baz Luhrmann's epic salute to his native land would be the movie of the year. But, crikey, a padded script bloated with subplots and shameless sentimentality can wear you down. | 10 | |
ScreenIt C. Fuchs The sprawling and ambitious pic will likely go down as yet another piece of Australian history, big and costly, but ultimately forgotten by most. | 10 | |
Metacritic.com 38 critics | 11 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 162 critics | 12 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Built on lavish vistas and impeccable production, Australia is unfortunately burdened with thinly drawn characters and a lack of originality. | 11 | |
What the People say | ||
Internet 6015 Netizens Those not familiar or not fans of Baz's style stand a greater chance of not liking this | 15 | |
Average .. 53% | 11 |