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Let's Get Skase
Christopher Skase. He ruled Australia and stole a fortune, fleeing to the coast of Spain. No one could touch him. No one could stop him. Until Peter Dellasandro and a small force of men swore they'd bring him down.
Release : | 2001 |
Rating : | 4.9 |
Studio : | Australian Film Finance Corporation, ScreenWest, Media World Features, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Director of Photography, |
Cast : | Lachy Hulme Alex Dimitriades Craig McLachlan Bill Kerr Helen Buday |
Genre : | Adventure Action Comedy |
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It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.
Absolutely the worst movie.
It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.
There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
One of the hallmarks of Australian comedies is enthusiasm, especially in the service of total absurdity. This film takes all the elements of a typical "American action film" and ratchets them up to Aussie levels. Sure it's ridiculous -- it's meant to be. What I like is the way the writer-director-acting-in-it-too team of Lachy Hulme and Matthew George put this thing together is that all the action and world-shaking intrigue is ultimately just background. This is really just a story about a bunch of guys trying to Get Something Right for once in their lives. There's a lot of love and goofball fun in this movie. I recommend it to anyone who needs a good laugh, either at themselves, the movies, or the world in general.
This is good.The Skase subject was very touchy, and they did a good job of just telling a story. Highly fictional, with elements of facts, it is a solid storyline.I am not sure if the flag scene was to my liking, but I understood what they were trying to do. The people I was watching it with thought it was hysterical.Loved all the stuff in the van and at Skase's mansion. Worth a watch.
Top film. When I went to see this, I thought that it would be some stupid Australian film that has no plot, no good characters and no good lines. The opposite is true. Whilst most Aussie comedies are about the little Aussie battler fighting against the big corporations, this is about a few losers fighting against a tyrant. It is a shame he died just before the film, because that must have made people think that the film is in poor taste, which it isn't. It is just a great p**s-take film that successfully attempts to be an action, comedy and adventure movie all in one.
Every so often a movie comes along that restores your faith in Australian film industry. Let's get Skase is not that film... But it does come damn close. First of all I'm sick of Australian films pretending they are comedies when they are clearly not. Let's get Skase, for all it's flaws, (Key being bad timing on it's release) is at least an honest attempt at comedy.The key to the film's success is it's complete disregard shown for it's subject matter. It has chosen not to attack the subject matter of the "chase for Skase" head on, but instead follow the fortunes of the people that tried to hunt him down. This is where the secret of the film lies, in it's characters. Setting up this group of misfits, not only makes for some hilarious sequences, but you can't wait for the point where two stories will inevitably collide.For those of you asking how to they get around the problem of "do they get him or not"? Let me just say, without giving too much away, that the last act of the film does not disappoint. Let's get Skase is a noble effort. Flaws aside.