Australia Day

The number of reviews here who don't understand why this film is set on Australia Day are exactly the reason this sort of film is so important. Maybe it needs to spelt out more clearly for some. We have a long way to go as a country, and hopefully films like this assist with informing and educating, and have some sort of impact.

Not a perfect film, and yes, some bits very hard to watch. (I agree with another review who said the brother and sister scene was very strange!) But the portraits of these Australians, and the intertwining stories were really well done in my opinion. The flow was brilliant and the performances were great.

A brilliantly executed movie set in my hometown, Brisbane, which captures many of the multicultural issues confronting modern Australia. The cast - relatively unknown apart from Bryan Brown - deliver a powerful, complex story which illustrates many of the cultural issues confronting modern societies. It was a real edge-of-the-seat production with completely unpredictable outcomes.

Can't believe the majority of reviews here being so negative. 2 of the most positive ones live in Brisbane, well guess where I live. It's actually typical of any Australian capital cities I have spent time in. This movie is not and never was meant to be about patriotism. It's about the real life racism that comes with such a wide and diverse range of cultural backgrounds that Australia has. That has been impaled on Australia by every Government since the WWII. Their greed has allowed policies on immigration to be too lax allowing a more rapid population growth. In a poor attempt to imitate the USA, toward wealth and power. Australia Day (the movie) deserves much more credit than it is garnering here. No not the best movie you will ever see but worth the watch, unless you have your head in the sand like most of the reviewers here. 7.5/10

I love Aussie movies, good or bad I'll see them all. (clear bias) I neither liked nor disliked this movie. Acting was patchy and editing failed it miserably. Brown was typically the lynch pin and perhaps without his presence the movie would have been completely lost. My gripe about this movie was the obvious mirroring of the movie Crash. Crash is an extraordinary movie, this movie is not.

I was pretty excited when i herd there was a movie coming out called "Australia Day". I thought it would be a great movie to celebrate one of our great calendar days. However it was not at all an uplifting movie at all, instead a powerful movie set with three stories of three different nationalities dealing with some brutal cultural differences. I did like it and it was great seeing Bryan Brown back on the screen, but it could of done with a different name. Score: 5/10