So, I'm not really sure how to describe this movie. It is a crime story, can't fault that. It's Australian. Jacki Weaver is nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Um...Ok, I'm going to break it down. This movie was creepy as shit. It probably wasn't meant to be creepy and it's not like Dogtooth or Oldboy creepy... though there are a couple of scenes that are close. Jacki Weaver goes from warm-and-fuzzy-maternal type to stone-cold-hearted and it is a disturbing change. She just weighed her options and chose the most personally beneficial, as clinical as a sniper choosing a roof.
I think Ben Mendelsohn deserved the Supporting nod, though. That was a creepy-ass performance as Andrew "Pope" Cody. He was scarier than Uncle Teardrop from Winter's Bone and waaaay more of a sociopath. That probably explains why I didn't like this movie as much, though. There's no real sense of redemption. It almost reminded me of City of God, in that the cycle of violence continued past the ending credits.
Josh Cody is a 17-year-old kid whose life is set adrift after his mother dies of a heroin overdose in the middle of Deal or No Deal. He is forced to turn to her family, a group of bank robbers lying low from the heat, in order to survive. This is a akin to being dumped in a nest of venomous critters, which shouldn't be a stretch of imagination for Australians.
Oh! I almost forgot. Luke Ford is in this and doesn't suck. Yeah, the Tomb of the Dragon Emperor guy who could have been replaced with a terracotta copy. He doesn't suck in this movie. That's worth a view right there.
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