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A well acted and moving account of a loving family torn apart by a tragic accident. Explores what effect this can have on a father and son in particular. However I found the violent ending somewhat mystifying and unsatisfactory. It was as though the writer wasn't quite sure how to finish the story. Would have been better with an ultimate.redemption for both parent and child.

Good to see Sam Worthington in a serious role though, and the boy's performance is very moving. Also good to have a script without an excess of dialogue. In this case the silences, especially from Worthington's character, speak more than words. Writers take note.

Acting is on cue , the scenery is very beautiful, but one thing I can't really get my head around is Why this movie is going back-and-forth all the time through the whole movie at different time zones. It's very slow hard to figure out (what this movie is actually about) and what is the point? This movie was so overhyped on the radio and previews and it was just one big waste of time with to many sub plots.(Maybe as a mini series could of worked out). Thank you Stan you have done it again wasting good actors on a very poor script and didn't want to spend a lot of money. This movie could've been a lot better as the actual shots and action sequences that are rare in the movie were actually really good.

I really tried, really .... The start of the movie immediately showed 2 things : the quality is a B movie instead of a movie with a star like Worthington : pale colours and most irritating continuing monotone background music. After 15 mintutes, the movie did not showed anything but a boring,; boring, boring kid and his boring father that acts boring towards his boring pregnant wife ... I do not understand why Mr Worthington accept to play in this kind of boring movies, except if you want to help people suffering insomnia ... Anyway, i did one good thing : I did not watch the movie till the end and I'm happy not to have wasted the full.106 minutes of my life.

First mistake was going in to movie expecting action (labeled as: action, crime, thriller...).

Ok once you realize it is more of a drama talking about father/son life after father returned from war...you start to watch with different expectation. But even for drama it is veeeery slow. Almost nothing happens for half a movie.

It is hard to get in to characters when it is so slow and tiresome to watch.

The story is good, they had good actors ....I do not understand why they had to make it so dull!!

Some reviwers said that it was so good that "we sat on edge of our seats" through the movie. What?!?!? Nobody will seat on the edge of the seat in this movie. Falling asleep in your seat...yes.

Shame.

People don't understand movies and they are reviewing this. It's supposed to be slow and boring at times. But it's very nice. The story is something we have all seen before, with a little of twist here and there.

The great part is that Sam Worthington is a good actor and it's really fun to watch him. This should be Sam's comeback hit!

The bad part about is perhaps some of the story is convoluted and doesn't make sense. But that's about it, it is very good on the dialogue part, acting part and direction. Matthew Nable is excellent and it's a lot of fun to see him be intimidating at times.

Australia is a great country and they know their stuff. Overall a good watch.

I really tried with this movie. But the slow boring pace it just isn't it. I mean come on we are 36 minutes into the movie and we have one action scene??!! And the script is nothing to write home about in this movie. It had me screaming in my head CAN WE AT THIS TRY HERE🤣

I mean give credit to the cast for trying to carry a script that literally says have you gone to sleep yet directly in your face. If you go based on the trailer for this movie you will surely be disappointed. No directions, no action and certainly no purpose to have made this film. I honestly wish I could get that 36 minutes back and rewrite the script.

Here I am thinking, good movies are still being made, as opposed to Hollywood blockbuster money makers, and Australian good movies at that (i.e., the dry, danger close, snow town etc.) and then I come back and read the comments "where's the action?" - are you daft!!?? Wtf?? Clearly there's a disconnect between good movies and what to expect... but poor reviews (sub-5), really? And this movie isn't without its flaws, but it resonated with me, really liked it, I've no doubt it might be received poorly, but keep it up movie makers. There is an audience who appreciates good story telling. Loved it, thanks.

While a slow movie to start (very typically of Aussie movies), the plot developed showing the impact of war service and other life tragedies.

The acting was excellent showing the various reactions to these life tragedies.

Sam Worthington gave an excellent performance of the impact of war, the loss of his wife and battling to save the relationship with his son (both actors were also brilliant).

Unfortunately the background music nearly made us stop watching. Why the music in the first place and why so loud? Often the actors could not be understood.

We would have given the movie a higher rating if the editors had eliminated or reduced the music volume.

This falls into the class of 'people story' and these do need to be done at a certain pace. Dad Sam having lost his wife in tragic circumstances is now attempting to raise his son while dealing with the trauma. A former Special Ops mate factors in and things get messy. This is not a fast paced action movie, and it's refreshing that it isn't as the story wouldn't work properly if it was. However, there is a lot happening and it certainly kept our interest. Relationship between Dad and son is great to watch. If you love a good people story and like relationship tales, then this is a good watch and we really enjoyed it.

So the special forces get to have flashlights strapped to their rifles, so they can have a big bullseye on their chest. To cheap for night vision or just ignorant? . Then the guy shows his son how to not sharpen a knife- backwards. Whats with the writers , ignorant or just don't care? Acting just ok . Turned the movie half way through. Gave myself enough time to know it was going to be a waste of my movie time. If you're going to have to spend an hour and 45 minutes watching a movie - drama, action, thriller, at least they could start out with something kind of believable. I got a bad taste in the first 5 minutes and never got rid of it!

...do I have to write "Garbage from start to finish!" before I reach the required minimum number of characters?

The acting is abysmal, the budget probably minuscule - but still too high for this total washout. Paper-thin characters, the now-obligatory dumb and self-obsessed teenager, wooden acting, boring and predictable dialogue, and back-of-a-cigarette-packet "plot" - the full panoply of predictable and done-to-death tropes and non-existent Australian production values are here for all to see and suffer from.

Apparently Mr Worthington won the Australian Film Institute's Best Male Actor and then went to make a career voicing CGI characters; from the evidence of this film that was a very smart move on his part.

There is a nugget of good news here, however - no celluloid was wasted on producing this junk.

Now, I have to admit that I was figuring an crime thriller with Sam Worthington might actually be worth sitting down to watch. Sure, I hadn't heard about "Transfusion" from writer and director Matt Nable prior to sitting down and watching it.

And talk about a swing and a miss. Running at 106 minutes, I ended up giving up after 53 minutes into the ordeal. The movie was just so insanely slow paced and uneventful that I just gave up and tossed the towel in the ring out of sheer and utter boredom. "Transfusion" didn't deliver anything anywhere remotely close to what I had hoped, and it was a rather boring movie experience.

Even with Sam Worthington in the leading role as Ryan Logan, the movie found no momentum. The actors and actresses in the movie virtually had nothing wholesome or worthwhile to work with in terms of interesting characters, riveting dialogue. So yeah, this movie was bland.

When I say that nothing happened in the movie, well at least the 53 minutes that I sat through before I gave up, then I am not kidding. Nothing literally happened, at least nothing worth mentioning or nothing that provided entertainment.

Needless to say that I am not returning to attempt to finishing watching the movie that Matt Nable concocted here. It just simply isn't worth the effort.

My rating of "Transfusion" lands on a two out of ten stars. And that is the production value alone that brings the movie up from a bottom-feeding score.

It's not easy making a solid, bleak thriller. They tried, but failed in the end.

The bad: this supposedly thriller simply wont become suspenseful. Not even the action scenes are anything special. Same old, same old.

But worse, the actors starring in this flick are tv movie actors. Not the worst, but definitely lacking charisma and acting qualities.

What's left? A boring movie in which even the few shootouts did not make sit on the edge of my seat.

This movie is all over the place. It wants to be too many things simultaneously. It wants to be thrilling (which it is not), but it also wants to be a sort of a family drama, which it definitely isnt either.

Amateur night....

Not what I was expecting. This is a more realistic drama and not the typical action thriller I thought we were about to watch.

This is a more honest drama about life for a ex-SAS man suffering from PTSD and his son trying to survive day to day and overall together. As he gets into more and more debt, Worthington turns to his old sergeant to get some easy, but illegally earned, money.

Written, directed by and starring Matt Nable (ex NRL player) its a stunning piece of work.

Plus this is Edward Carmody's (16yo Billy) first tv or film appearance and I think he's amazing. An amazing piece of drama.

Let's just say I signed up to leave a review on this.. it's slow, boring and I'm 45 minutes in to it, but it feels like an eternity. It's Sunday night and I have to go to bed, and I just wasted the last hour of my weekend on the most uneventful boring movie I've seen in 2023..

Storyline could have been summed up in a description shorter than this review. Honestly who ever was involved with this should just give up and find other work...Sam did a reasonable job, but other actors were taxing.

Rumour has it, that it is still going and nothing has happened yet. Stan, do vonsiderably etter or leave movies to Hollywood.

The movie plays in random segments instead from start to finish, which is completely unnecessary. It was slow and boring yet now also mildly confusing to follow. The story is average at best. I didn't even finish the film... and I never stop a film before it's actually finished. For some reason aswell I seem to be one of the few people who think Sam Worthington is a less than average actor. I did not believe any of his acting in this film. He didn't seem like he was ex-military and his PTSD/anger issues seemed over acted and hard to believe. I did try though. It feels like people assume Sam Worthington is a good actor just because Avatar was the highest grossing film ever...

Once again, further proof that the Australian film industry is a joke. Sam Worthington ties his best to keep this project afloat but as broad as his shoulders are he had no chance.

It's awfully written, bereft of any direction in a movie that so DESPERATELY needs it given that it starts nowhere, has nowhere in the middle and ends nowhere.

Honestly one of the most pointless films I've ever had to endure.

The story has no cohesion is woefully written and it took almost 50 minutes for it to gather any direction.

The project has been lavishly marketed to entice you in but pls, don't fall for it.