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Best movie of this year hands down!

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

I remember wagging school to see this. I was sixteen. Well, I wasn't really wagging. I was going to town to buy some clothes. I just optioned to see this. I really wanted to see this flick, a kinda Mad Max in the outback. The plot is simple: animal conservationalist gets on the wrong side of these three larger than kangaroo, hunters, the most menacing of them, being the older one, Sunny, quite a tough one to figure out. A game of revenge begins, pitting the taunted against her taunters. They draw first blood, after nearly running her off the road, in some breathtaking action, which is well shot, you can tell the director had fun making this. Sunny defends his actions, by saying "We're only doing the farmers a favor". Him and his mates are surely not doing her a favor. They keep pushing her, stalking her, tormenting her, breaking into her farmhouse. Check out the nude snapshot Sunny takes of her while asleep. Yummy. She starts pushing back, like doing one hell of a welding job on their rifles which Sunny's mate, Sparks compliments it. The trademark scene is her being tied to the front of the pickup, actually known as The Beast, that flaunts these big horns that sit above the vehicles grill. Her breasts are open to view, on this uncomfortable ride. The locations on the beautiful Flinders Rangers, work to this film's benefit. Truly beautiful scenery, and Adelaide'n that I am, I have to take a ride up there one day. I must admit this is an addictive revenge flick. I don't know what the other kid in the cinema thought but I did enjoy it. But the film does run on two little. There's some great stuntwork and some intense scenes, where their taunting takes it's toll on this poor beautiful woman. The victims die in forgettable if pathetic ways. It's ending song isn't forgettable though. The film, does have a high animal count I must warn you. Fair Game is an action flick that certainly won't win any AFI'S, but this 85 Adelaide effort that was shot on mid thirty degree days, is entertaining junk. Incidentally, producer Harley Manners was so eager to do this, he sold his house in Torrens Park to finance the film, I guess, and when you have the beautiful Delaney in it's lead (who actually was going with songwriting great, John Denver), anything with her is worth watching. See how many films have this title. I'm pretty sure this one is it's first.

I had two movies called "Fair Game" standing on my must-see list, so I watched them after each other in order not to lose track of one of them. The first one was an obscure Italian lethal-snake-on-the-loose thriller also known as "Mamba" and this one is Australia's belated (unless I missed something) response to the 'Revengeploitation" sub genre. Revenge thrillers were especially popular throughout the entire decade of the 70's, with highlights like "Last House on the Left", "I Spit on your Grave, "Fight for your Life", "House by the Lake" and "House on the Edge of the Park". These movies routinely handle about innocent women (preferably defenseless and fragile) getting harassed and viciously raped by a group of men (preferably perverted hicks and/or fugitive criminals) and then avenging themselves by taking justice into their own hands. The gritty atmosphere and gratuitous use of violence and sleaze in "Fair Game" is pretty much prototypic revenge thriller stuff, but it nevertheless also remains an authentic Aussie movie, meaning the assaulters are bored kangaroo poachers looking for new thrills and the 'victim' (Cassandra Delaney; the former Mrs. John Denver) is actually a very potent lady who fights back from the beginning and never really allows her opponents to get the upper hand. Jessica runs a wildlife reservation in the middle of the outback, so naturally there's a vicious conflict when she bumps into a trio of insensitive and macho poachers doing some illegal kangaroo hunting on her territories. This film feels refreshing and innovative because the script doesn't unfold like the majority of 70's revenge thrillers. The interactions between Jessica and the poachers start off like a testosterone-laden showdown, but then gradually escalate into a merciless battle with humiliation, rape and murder. There are several highly memorable and deliciously exploitative scenes in "Fair Game", most notably the one with Delaney – in her white undies - tied to the hood of a jeep whilst it races through the desert. Her acts of vengeance during the climax are quite impressive as well and I guarantee there's some impressive bloodshed to enjoy in "Fair Game". As often the case with Australian cult-productions ("Outback", "Wolf Creek", "Mad Max"…), the exterior filming location and wildlife images alone make the movie worth purchasing and this particular one also benefices from good music and stylish camera-work. The acting performances are more than satisfying and I'm pleased to notice the cast exclusively exists of native Australians. This isn't always the case, you know. Definitely recommended if you're a fan of the revenge movies.

This better-than-you'd-expect Aussie revenge thriller pits a young female wildlife refuge ranger against a trio of moronic imbeciles who terrorize her in a senseless cat-and-mouse game in the great outback. Some fairly effective scenes play out in this otherwise unexceptional and run-of-the-mill revenge yarn.Good performances and interesting location filming highlight this, a take-it-or-leave-it indie film which could have benefited from more gratuitous nudity and violence...the final product,while not at all bad, seems rather lacking in the sleaze factors which fans of this type of film are generally looking for.4.5/10...neither fish nor fowl, but definitely watchable.

Watched this as an idle rental and was amazed by the erotic nature of the showdown scene where Cassandra Delaney is tied to the bonnet of the truck. I watched the UK version and I reckon most of the juicy bits have been edited out compared to journeyman's comments, (it was released in 1985, probably wouldn't be touched now) but it was still a surprise when that scene played. The rest of the film was pretty good too, but it's that one scene that sticks in my mind.