Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away (TV Movie 2011)

Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away (TV Movie 2011). Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away: Directed by Cherie Nowlan. With Toby Schmitz, Claire van der Boom, Aaron Jeffery, Brendan Cowell. The story of David McMillan an Australian drug smuggler and the only person in history to escape from Klong Prem prison in Bangkok.

“This entry into the movie-length u0026quot;Underbelly Filesu0026quot; series, based on the u0026quot;Underbellyu0026quot; TV show, works mostly because of the performances of Toby Schmitz as the titular man (drug-smuggler David McMillan), and Brendan Cowell, who commits to his performance as a criminal scumbag so thoroughly you forget that itu0026#39;s him youu0026#39;re watching.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe Underbelly franchise started with one unwatchably terrible season, and then improved markedly. It was never particularly good, donu0026#39;t get me wrong. It was just so ridiculously, terribly bad in that first season – listing every mistake made on camera would require a document longer than the whole series script – that it could only really go up, and up it did.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe franchise has had two saving graces: one, featuring beloved Aussie actors we may not have seen in a while, and have missed, and two, featuring the breasts of beautiful young Australian girls.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOf course, the show got caught up in the pseudo-feminist girl power nonsense that has been ruining mainstream entertainment for more than twenty years, but with all the u0026quot;actressesu0026quot; on screen basically only to bare their breasts, that nonsense was entertainingly offset.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;The Man Who Got Awayu0026quot; has the actors, but not enough breasts. It also misspells the word u0026quot;harebrainedu0026quot; in a title card, so I guess the producers of Underbelly related media arenu0026#39;t that much smarter than they were when they didnu0026#39;t notice Martin Sacks had dropped his Italian accent in the first series.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIu0026#39;ve just watched the movie, and then I read on IMDB that the main character was on the Interpol top ten most wanted persons list. I didnu0026#39;t know that. The makers of u0026quot;Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Awayu0026quot; either didnu0026#39;t tell us, or didnu0026#39;t make the point strongly enough. He seemed small time throughout the whole thing.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eItu0026#39;s still entertaining enough.”