An average movie

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since it was suggested by a fellow Listal member, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, even though it turned out to be a decent watch, to be honest, I still can’t say I was impressed though. It is possible that I might have enjoyed it more if there wasn’t such an overdose of movies and TV-shows dealing with the current zombie craze. Anyway, in this case, the end-result felt like a rather overlong episode of ‘The Walking Dead’ taking place in Australia. I have to admit that it was an interesting approach to focus on a really average couple but, to be honest, I never really cared about them and the fact that they both got infected rather stupidly made it even harder to root for them. Eventually, the most interesting thing about this flick was to show these aboriginals going back to their ancient lifestyle and facing such a pandemic in their own way. Unfortunately, they decided to focus on this white man when they should have spent more time on the aboriginals. Another interesting approach would have been to follow the plot developed years ago by Jim Jarmusch with ‘Dead Man’. Indeed, in this case, they could have dropped the wife, showing only Andy basically dying very slowly right from the start and Thoomi could have supported him during this final journey. Anyway, it is pretty obvious that the aboriginals were actually what made this movie interesting but they were barely given any screen time after all. To conclude, in spite of its flaws, it was still fairly entertaining and I guess it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.