Brothers' Nest

I started watching this without any hope and the slow start kind of made me thinking. But in the same time I realized the great chemistry between the main characters and hoped for something unexpected. Got it at the end. It gradually turned in to something I never expected and all the actors play their best and made it believable.

Shane Jacobson emerged as a seriously reliable performer in film and musical comedy in the last decade here in Australia. Through Kenny, the port-a-loo entrepreneur, the chubby chap that many of us Aussies had enjoyed on the musical stage was brought to broader knowledge.

I may have misunderstood the attractions of 'stars' - not just that their role will be convincing, more that their presence says 'This must be OK or I wouldn't have signed up."

It's somewhat like that with 'Brothers' Nest', but more so. Shane and his real life big brother Clayton have the relationship in this family muck-up story that cannot be acted - it just has to be innate and honed over decades of brotherly rivalry to work this well. The setting, in a western Victorian farmhouse, shot mostly at dusk, overnight and dawn looks the real deal it is.

The story is about family relationships - intense, marginal, commonly held and individual, stemming from not so happy families, divorces, new unions, strengths but mostly weaknesses. It isn't pretty, and if your family isn't like this, you'll probably be thankful, but it really does have a lot to say.

It's a small cast, and the two bothers plus Kim Gyngell as their step father leave little space for the others, but all click satisfyingly. They are all believable in their roles.

The billing was 'black comedy' but I'd allocate this to the thriller category. Few laughs, personally or in our cinema, and virtually none out loud. But it seriously held my attention.

Give it a go - it's good.

What is it with Aussie movies, they seem to do everything right, i cannot remember the time I have watched any that have been bad from Picnic At Ayres Rock to Mel Gibson in Mad Max and now we have Brothers Nest.

From the very start the movie draws you in and intrigues the viewer to want more, almost the perfect start to any movie. Then we have the dialogue and comedy which just sparkles and scintillates with every word; I could not stop laughing from lines like "Ice Junkies always use box cutters" to the conversation about wives it is absolutely magic the chemistry between the two main characters whom I believe are actually brothers in real life.

The movie proceeds with aplomb and eventually punches the viewer in the guts with a totally horrifying end belying all that came before and gives the viewer a real mind bender to think over. This is Dark Comedy at its finest!!!

This is a great dark comedy/thriller type movie - kind of like a dark heist Coen brothers type film but with a smaller budget. The real brothers do great together! I laughed, I cried. I gasped. Not too long. I feel bad that I was expecting a 5/10 movie and got a 7! Which is really high in my books...not many movies get above a 7 these days from me.

A good solid film correctly badged black comedy. Well carried off by the two brothers and builds to a suitably dark ending. Made to a budget but I've seen worse films meant to be blockbusters.

I'm sure you'll enjoy it if you like the Coen brothers movies as it's in much the same vein