End Play

End Play, in my opinion is one of Oz movie that stands alone, unique and stylish in how it manipulates the audience, and really keeps us riveted from the get go, through it two hour duration. It's uniqueness and style is what I love about it, a true blue original, it's story craftily structured, that makes for an unnerving thriller in which two brother's, one a disgruntled wheelchair bound guy, Mallaby, (another Aussie icon star, loved and lost) and his younger conservative and calm brother, Walters, share a tight bond, as well as a secret. Several murders of women hitchhikers, have been taking place, and one of the brothers is responsible, one of them, it's ostensibly made clear, is the killer. The movie is based on the play, and it's got the stage feel here, seeing most of it, takes place in Mallaby's secluded cottage. The Q and A scene, is funny where spiteful Mallaby, makes jokes at their expense. Waters shows balls, donning a old hippie wig, and pushing a wheelchair, into a cinema, the last woman victim, propped up in it. It's pre ending, arrows never looking this deadly before, is very suspenseful. End Play maintains a beautifully slow pace, of never ending suspense, and mostly due, to Mallaby's intimidating and unpredictable self, a man of angry bitter sarcasm, working in beautiful contrast to the quieter distanced, Waters. Both are very good, but it's the late unforgotten great, Mallaby I liked, showing authenticity as a totally believable cripple. The movie's song is a great number. One of Burstall's best, and one, Aussie lovers must see.