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Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Great Film overall

Excellent adaptation.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

IGNORE the 2 ignorant nay-sayers in the reviews (I wonder if THEY can act?); this is an OUTSTANDING film, shot locally, with some excellent talent both in front & behind the cameras!Mack Lindon, whom I had the honour to meet recently at the 'Australian Screen Industry Network' Awards (2015), is a genuine guy whose story this is about. It demonstrates how badly the justice system CAN be when it's based on such poor 'evidence'.Some very strong acting by many, and special accreditation should go to Marty Rhone for his BRILLIANT role (suppressed according to rules) - Having myself worked for a government agency in the past, dealing with people with this characters issues, Marty must've gone to great lengths to research this role to portray it so accurately as he did - Until the credits, I actually thought they'd used a person with these particular traits for the role - His performance is THAT good!Well done to Mack & ALL involved! It's now one of my favourite Aussie films. :-)Steve Mack

I watched this movie with high hopes and anticipation - based solely on reviews garnered here at IMDb.But these folks reviewing (esp from Melb) have a far LOWER tolerance for what I rate as a great movie. The TRUTH is - this low budget, poorly cast and cheesy scripted attempt is nothing more than BELOW AVERAGE at best.Apart from Martin Sacks - who carries this movie on his own - and puts together a total believable performance - there is NOTHING really to like (for me anyway).One of my pet hates in movies, is when the UNDERLYING story has absolutely nothing to do with the actual movie. Just like in this case, masquerading as an evangelical convert to GOD movie. So maybe I can't be 100% impartial here - will you forgive me ?If the scriptwriters focused more on the dialog and character building aspects of a PRISON MOVIE.......and had actually cast BELIEVABLE characters, then maybe this movie could have been more enjoyable (for me).So in the end, I found this more than disappointing on so many levels. Cast, acting, dialog and character development.I was insulted about the religious message - cause if I wanted that in a movie, I would have watched Jesus of Nazareth instead.Is this the WORST MOVIE EVER ? No it is not. It's just very very average and typical of Australian low budget trash that is not uncommon here in Australia.will you forgive me also ? Cause I forgive the film makers, after all - IT IS the Christian thing to do.PS - look out for Marty Rhone - some Aussies will remember his 1970's countdown performances like "Mean Pair of Jeans" - I guarantee you won't recognise him in Rise.

Watched this on holidays not knowing what to expect and was really surprised. Realizing that its based on a true story only adds to my admiration for all of those involved. That could be anyone's son that found themselves in the situation that this movie portrays. As it is for all of us life can contain a lot of twists and turns and how we deal with them makes us who we are today. I have sat through many greatly anticipated releases over the years that have greatly disappointed, but I found Rise to be a refreshing change. Some brilliant young Aussie talent mixed with talent that has been around for years, well worth a viewing.

Badly written and poor acting accentuated by terrible continuity and not so subtle religious undertones. This movie looked like it was done by a talentless group of first year cinematography students on a very restrictive budget. The plot was completely unbelievable which was surprising considering it was suppose to be based on a true story. The characters expressions didn't seem to match the words that where coming out of there mouths or the situations most of the time. I couldn't stomach more than half of this dribble and had to walk out of the theater fast before my anger at having spent money to watch this amateurish attempt at film making got the better of me and I demand a refund from the pimpled face kid behind the ticket desk. Save your hard earned money and time. Steer clear. You have been warned.