Buckley's Chance

The first alarm bell went off during the credits when I saw that the writer, the producer and the director were the one person. This lack of normal creative filters that a group approach provides can often lead to problems, and this film suffered some clangers. The film's biggest attraction (Bill Nighy) became its biggest problem. His rich upper class English accent was there in all it's glory. I love Bill, but he should never have been cast in this role. I bailed when he met his fellow outback farmers in a café and they all had appropriate broad Aussie accents making the whole thing farcical.

The other clanger was making him a sheep farmer. The property was set in marginal cattle country in the "deep outback". Who was checking these fundamentals?

Always liked Bill but the dingo is beautiful.

It is incorrectly credited on the titles as being called Sunny, which is sad as it does shortly after filming.

It isn't even credited at all on IMDb which is poor, but it was called Sonny.

RIP Sonny, forever enshrined on the silver screen now.

Just no. As an Aussie I found this totally awful to the point that I had to turn it off after the first 20 minutes. Every cringe worthy cliche was thrown at the script. Bill Nighy what were you thinking??

I must confess. There were times when I wondered why I was even watching this movie. I often found myself confused as to what the point of the film was. To be honest, I'm still not entirely sure what the purpose of the movie is.

"Buckley's Chance" is not a cinematic masterpiece. It is boring at times. Some scenes are slow to develop. There are even a few scenes where you may find yourself laughing out loud as you ask what the heck they were thinking when they put that in the movie.

However, it was enjoyable enough to keep my attention and to keep me awake.

You may find it boring. I did at times. You may find it entertaining. I did at times. You may want to watch it a second time in the future. I don't. But, that's just me.

Watch it - don't read the bad reviews. Highly unfair for such a good movie.