The Australian Job (2002)

The Australian Job: Directed by Scott Roberts. With Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths, Robert Taylor, Joel Edgerton. 3 brothers are in and out of prison in connection with heists planned by their lawyer et al. He gets them out for the heists and “looks after” the money and one’s wife.

“I loved The Hard Word and was wrapped in the totality of the experience that showed none of the shortcomings as related by others who commented on this film.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI thought that the scripting and direction of Scott Roberts was very good: the inevitability of the consequences that unraveled as the script progressed had a Shakespearian inevitability about it As a viewer I sat watching this all too real story unfold knowing nothing good was going to happen for any player in this strange dance of death but being powerless to change any of the pieces that formed the inescapable conclusion to all that would befall the players.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe script worked itself out without being forced through the Hollywood funnel which can do little but transform reality into something palatableu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003efor the mid-American diet: movies as a metaphor for fast food.”