There are so many reasons to leave this movie in the local video store discount bin where it belongs. Over-acting. Lit like a cheap 70's soap. Poorly-composed shooting. Awful sound. Cut like the editor didn't care.
It looks like something first-year film-school students would make on borrowed equipment for about $5K. Some have found it difficult to believe that it cost more than a third of a million dollars to make this dreck. I find it difficult to believe anyone would want their name associated with it. It should be Alan Smithee all round -cast and crew. I would be embarrassed to be in it. Heck, I was embarrassed just to be watching it.
Lest you think I'm being too harsh, and it was a "film of it's time, this thing was released in 1979. That's the same year as Mad Max. As Life of Brian, Kramer v Kramer, 10, The Empire Strikes Back, and Alien.
Dimboola is a mediocre film of modest ambition. It sets the bar very low, and then totally fails to clear it.
