stonkered

Anh Do's constant spruiking in the media about what a come-from-nothing, refugee, westy battler he is, which by the way is true, only serves as a cop out. Positioning himself to get away with making such a crap movie. While the background of struggling underdog is certainly there, make no mistake, the accolades and experience are certainly there too. Khoa was widely praised for his previous film, "The Finished People" for which he won the independent spirit award and was also named as "Young Australian Of The Year" and Anh was also "Stand Up Comedian Of The Year" a few years back and is an accomplished stand up comic. My question being that with all this industry cred and decent financial backing and casting... couldn't they have put together a kick butt film. Answer: Apparently not.

This movie was an extremely different experience to the traditional style of movie making. I enjoyed it immensely. The visual style and music was great. However I did find one or two scenes extremely erratic and repetitive (I know that this was a conscious choice though). Unfortunately one of them is the opening scene with all the fast editing to a techno beat. Some people probably get turned off it at the start, but if you stay with it it get's much better. The editing and colours in the movie were the standout elements I thought. I do agree with some of the other comments though about the Director's/Producer's commentary being a bit much to swallow. They sound like they're the only people in history to have done an indie film. Overall though, I rate this movie pretty high and would recommend it to anyone wanting a different style of entertainment.