I really liked this. It's one of those working class gangster movies. The villains are not your Hans Gruber super villains, not your DeNiro/Mann studious master thief. These guys are like you'd see in The Bill, The Sweeney, Hill Street Blues. They are led be a brutal matriarch who Neighbours fans will probably recognize.
I am learning a new respect for Australian films, I've always known they are out there, but for some reason it's easier to find foreign language films than down under movies. Sure with films like Heavenly Creatures, Muriels Wedding and Prescilla Queen of the Desert we know they are capable of top quality output, but a lot of it is forgotten or hidden.
So I won't go into plot details, just let you know that this is more than about a boy becoming a man, it's a good solid study of malevolent behaviour in an action (but not explosions every two minutes) flick.
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