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Best movie of this year hands down!

Very well executed

Good concept, poorly executed.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Noise is a typical Australian movie. For some reason Australian film makers think they have to make unusual, quirky films for them to be successful, and for this reason, almost all of them are bad. Despite knowing this, I decided to give Noise a chance as the premise sounded interesting.The plot of Noise twists and turns with no real purpose. Every scene contains some nonsensical element. Perhaps the director wanted to mirror the disorienting sense tinnitus gives it's sufferers, in the style of how the story is told, but in reality he just made a truly horrible film that is boring and aggravating at how stupid it is. It never captivates the imagination whatsoever and the story is ridiculous.

For me, this was the best Australian film since "Lantana" ... no, I'll revise that and say it's better than "Lantana". The script was brilliantly written, with believable dialogue and characterization, and yet with an eerie, unsettling tension and mystery about it. The acting was very good all round, and in the case of Brendan Cowell, superb. I loved the music score and the moody photography. One of the most outstanding features of this most unusual film was the outstanding sound design. The scene where Brendan Cowell's character tries to drown out the ringing in his ears by making a variety of loud noises is uniquely effective in it's use of sound as an element of a film. You never quite know where this film is going, but when you get there, it's devastating. This film does on a minuscule budget what many big-budget Hollywood blockbusters could never do ... it touches your heart and it makes you use your brain.

After seeing an interview with director Matthew Saville, who seemed as intelligent as any film maker you could care to name, I was interested enough to go out and track this one down. And it doesn't disappoint. Certainly visually it is wonderfully well executed, and the sound is strong too. The dialog is sharp, subtle, and at points hilarious (and supremely Australian).Unfortunately, the downside is the disjointedness of the plot line. To me it seemed yearning to be free from a plot line as a major source of interest (and focus instead in the pure dialog and landscape - certainly I feel that's where Saville's interest is). But it wasn't. There are two driving plot lines along the whole film and something happens in every scene, even though subplots are not continued, or often resolved. To me the finale was also ultimately quite generic and futile as a point of interest.Ultimately, the words 'interesting, but not "great"' come to mind, and it fits vaguely into a bucket with several other Australian films of the last 5 years (candy, little fish, look both ways, Japanese story, etc.) in dealing with the same demographic, themes of emptiness and loss, and being willingly obtuse (artistic?) in its presentation, even if this one does have its own thing happening a little outside of that also.

I went to the screening not knowing what I was going to see. I thought Noise was very well done and I enjoyed it, as I haven't seen another film like it. I walked out of the movie thinking how lucky I am not to have any problems like that and amazed at people that do have that problem that they can have normal lives.The movie was a little slow to start with but as the story revealed itself it became a must see what happens one. I especially loved the swearing because that made the characters even more real as that is how most Aussies talk in everyday life. Well the down to earth ones.I would recommend every one see this movie as it had the Aussie humor down to a tee - Job well done to all the actors and the director.I look forward to seeing more movies like this made.