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Summary: Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 1,500 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.
Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman and Baz Luhrmann. My 14-year-old-self's head would have imploded on the thought of all those goodies in one film. Sadly, however, it doesn't meet expectations. At all. The main problem is, it's too long. You think the movie ends at least three times, but no. There's too many stories to be told in one film, so it ends up not telling any of them full-heartedly. It does have a very hot and wet half-naked Hugh, so I owe myself-at-14 to give it +10 points for that.
It tries to be too much: a war film, an Australian Western, a romance, an epic. It's too long and the story seems contrived to fit all of these elements in.
It's great to look at. Otherwise, Australia is one of the most cliched movies I've ever seen. It's a tornado of lazy writing and excessive padding. I don't understand why anyone gave Baz Luhrmann final cut on this project, because he doesn't seem to understand the concept of how to end a movie.
Over exaggerated, over produced, over acted, cliche, superficial, oscar bait not even close to being worthy of its 3 hour run time. You know what I would rather do than re-watch this? Kill myself.
Not so bad. Epic though very lengthy. Charming, though a bit cheesy. Involving but very predictable. Worth the time, but you won't name it if anyone asks you to name a film of any kind..
If this had been released as two seperate movies, each half would have a 99 from me, but as it is, the two halves of the movie are just so vastly different it drags the whole thing down. The first half could have been an amazing "western" sort of film, about the cattle-drive. The second could have been a heavy-handed war movie. But trying to combine the two things together into one film just turned it into a too-long too-heavy-handed bore.
Like all of Baz Lurhmann's movies, a cartoonish mash-up intended for a one-night watch. At the end, the only aspect worth remembering is the fulfilling shot of Hugh Jackman's upper body as water is running down his torso.
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