After planning to leave the city with his girlfriend, a young man must first betray her in order to save his brother from a deadly situation.After planning to leave the city with his girlfriend, a young man must first betray her in order to save his brother from a deadly situation.After planning to leave the city with his girlfriend, a young man must first betray her in order to save his brother from a deadly situation.
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It's laughable that the IMDB rating for this distinctly sub-standard Australian indie flick, currently stands at a whopping 8.0! Mind you that's only from 378 users. I'd be thinking (director-screenwriter-producer-director of photography-editor) Shannon Alexander must have paid all his neighbours and extended family to go online and score it favourably. He's obviously put a lot of work into the project, but unfortunately there's just nothing to show for it.
The story which is Seinfeld-like (nothing much happens at all), sees two low-life, layabout brothers named Levi and Wendall respectively, get involved with the same girl at different times and then Wendall, a junkie if there ever was one, get involved with dealers higher up the drug food chain. That's about it. For a film that's bizarrely promoted as being some sort of comedy-thriller, there's precious few laughs to be had and absolutely no thrills, action or suspense.
The characters are just plain uninteresting and do little to enhance the dull, at times semi-incoherent story. For instance Sanja's (the girl) protective and physically imposing father (Athan Bellos) is set up to look as if he will have a major part to play in the final outcome and then just disappears from the film's second half. BTW, the most outlandish scene in the film comes when he first sees (adult) Sanja kissing Levi. He then proceeds to physically attack Levi. I found it comical, though I don't think it was designed as such.
Golden Globe nominee Kathryn Langford must have thought she was doing Alexander a favour by consenting to play Vesna, Sanja's little sister, but again, it's a small, nothing part in an exceedingly unimaginative tale. Of minor interest to some viewers familiar with Western Australia, is that the movie does feature quite a few recognisable landmarks around coastal Perth and its port city of Fremantle.
The story which is Seinfeld-like (nothing much happens at all), sees two low-life, layabout brothers named Levi and Wendall respectively, get involved with the same girl at different times and then Wendall, a junkie if there ever was one, get involved with dealers higher up the drug food chain. That's about it. For a film that's bizarrely promoted as being some sort of comedy-thriller, there's precious few laughs to be had and absolutely no thrills, action or suspense.
The characters are just plain uninteresting and do little to enhance the dull, at times semi-incoherent story. For instance Sanja's (the girl) protective and physically imposing father (Athan Bellos) is set up to look as if he will have a major part to play in the final outcome and then just disappears from the film's second half. BTW, the most outlandish scene in the film comes when he first sees (adult) Sanja kissing Levi. He then proceeds to physically attack Levi. I found it comical, though I don't think it was designed as such.
Golden Globe nominee Kathryn Langford must have thought she was doing Alexander a favour by consenting to play Vesna, Sanja's little sister, but again, it's a small, nothing part in an exceedingly unimaginative tale. Of minor interest to some viewers familiar with Western Australia, is that the movie does feature quite a few recognisable landmarks around coastal Perth and its port city of Fremantle.
- spookyrat1
- Jun 16, 2019
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