The lead actress was very good. As was most of the female cast with some stellar performances in moments that really counted, and that was a bonus in this slow-moving, incredibly cliched production.
The male cast seems to have been chosen to fit a politically correct multicultural demographic, most with gleaming muscles and a cross between SNAGs and true-to-type dumb Aussies that are barely managing unless they have their mummy-wives.
The children - a cast of seriously untalented, repulsive brats that possibly represent how well the nation is going to become the new America. Either that, or to save money, the cast chucked their own theatrically-untrained offspring into the roles. The children almost had me switching off very early. When will Australian productions learn to train child actors, I wonder? This was a massive turn off and thoroughly ruined an otherwise base good story. Ironic. As it was child-based.
The cliches were so laughable I wasn't sure if it were not a comedy except that a couple of the female cast were exceptional and, as I mentioned, there were some stellar acting moments from them (plus one male in a reunion moment at the end.)
Cliche codswallop: 'She paid in CASH??? Don't only criminals pay in cash?' No actually, moronic people of the new age, cash still exists and stupid novels like this make it seem like a disease. Grow up.
The lesbians - Vegans, no less. Vegan lesbians. But wait, there's more... at the end, the very absolutely least interesting actor in the entire cast, vegan lesbian, decides she actually really wants to eat meat. I was waiting for her to also say she was keen to try male humans as well, just for a change, (since they were strutting around the set with no shirts on, bodies buffed with oil, hilarious), to spice up a truly dreary role that if she hadn't existed, I wouldn't have noticed and certainly didn't care one bit about... her role, and anything that came out of her boring mouth, and average acting style, could have not existed and no one on Earth would ever have cared.
I have no idea what the book is like.
The ACTUAL premise for a story is excellent. Tragic but believable, as it's happened in real life. But the author or the producers of this production must have been currying favour to all the woke or politically correct or latest nonsense so as to please the up and coming believers of a world so shallow it will bury them alive.
Would I watch it again? If I were paid a million dollars, yes, but not a penny less.
