A good movie

Like the most of us, I do believe the fact that Heath Ledger is deceased is a terrible loss for the movie world but, honestly, by now I have seen all his movies since his breakthrough ‘10 Things I Hate About You’ (expect for ‘ I’m not there’ and ‘ Candy’) and, if you put aside ‘Brokeback Mountain’ and ‘The Dark Knight’ , there is actually not much mind-blowing in his filmography. This movie is a good example. I mean, I thought it was entertaining and I enjoyed it but it is hardly a masterpiece. Personally, I have to admit I had never heard about Ned Kelly before watching this flick. Basically he was some kind of Australian Jesse James so, only for this, it was a rather educational watch even it might not have been really historically accurate. Like I said before, it was a rather entertaining, with some solid directing and a pretty good cast (Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, Naomi Watts, Joel Edgerton, Emily Browning, Rachel Griffiths). Still, compared to ‘ The Proposition’, another Australian ‘ Western’ I also recently saw, this effort is hardly original or really interesting and if you watch it , there is a good chance you’ ll forget it within the following 5 minutes. Still, even though it is nothing really amazing, I thought it was a rather well made Australian ‘ Western’ and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10