Review of Mad Dog Morgan

I became a Dennis Hopper fan the time I saw him on a talk show once (can't remember which) many years ago, and he cried real tears on demand at the host's request. Ever since I figured he could do just about anything in cinema. As the title character here, Hopper transforms his Easy Rider Billy into an enigmatic bush-ranger outlaw, basically despicable but deemed a folk hero to the locals who admire his tenacity in taking it to the authorities. Befriended and saved from death by an aborigine (David Gulpili), the pair become willing partners in crime after Billy teaches Morgan how to hunt and live off the land. You'll have to forgive the film for it's awkward skips and jump cuts and fill in some of the blanks on your own. That and somehow find a way to contain yourself at the sight of Hopper's ridiculous fake beard that looks like it might have been fashioned for a Saturday Night Live skit. No doubt viewers will recall with ease their most memorable scenes from the film. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the idea of a barbecued snake.