pricenicholas

I don't know how others can give this a score of anything beyond a 3. It is cringe inducing wooden, cliched and historically inaccurate. The music selected for when Archie starts to tour with the Pender review is a bizarre choice and doesn't tie in with the moment or the mood it is trying to convey. Also, the use of black n white then alternating to colour doesn't add anything. I've just about finished ep 1 and won't be watching the rest. Comments have been made elsewhere about the poor job Isaacs has done with re-creating Grant, especially his mid Atlantic accent, but I wasn't overly familiar with his voice, so didn't notice.

Saw this late on ABC, can see why they put it on in middle of night. This is amateur hour, watching this 'car crash',the dialogue, editing and special effects - shark/seal scene! - get worse and worse. When the 2 larrikins get honked by garbage truck and their retort is "Up yours, garbage breath", scriptwriters! Then when there is a drag between PC and the yobbos the dueling banjos start. Only interest is seeing young Kidman, Matt Parkinson and Alan Dale (Dr Karl) ironically in the band, Karl nursing muso ambitions early on.

On a side note, it would be more helpful and balanced if negative and positive reviews were put up as it seems that user reviews are only added when someone really likes the film. This leaves the user reviews unbalanced and some 'terrible' films get very high rating. Subjective, of course