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4/4
Animal Kingdom review
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 12/28/2011
Craig follows a car with 2 guys who made nasty remarks, handing Joshua “J” Cody a handgun to scare them off. Andrew “Pope” Cody’s best friend and partner in crime Barry “Baz” Brown is shot dead in the car. Pope and Darren shoot two police offciers to avenge Baz. “Josh” and Pope are brought in for questioning. Craig gets shot by a cop and Detective Senior Sergeant Nathan Leckie talks to J. The film kind of represents the quote from J – “Kids just are where ever they are, And they just do whatever they're doin', You know? This is where I was, And this is what I was doin', After my mum died, this is just the world I got thrown into.”
A few reservations this critic had was the person playing Pope tends to mumble when talking and the pace slows down a bit after …
Rating of
4/4
The Aussie Godfather
SIngli6 - wrote on 08/16/2011
I have often avoided Australian films because of the resistible parochial values and rather smug aversion to genre they commonly have, but decided to give this film a shot after reading a number of rave reviews for it. Even with the cautiously optimistic disposition with which I entered the cinema, I was still greatly impressed by the high level of technical expertise and acting featured in it. The script did not weigh itself down trying to incorporate bits of Australiana into its story or characters, though they are certainly there. What matters is that the emerge naturally and as a consequence of David Michod's efforts to tell an emotionally turbulent and sonorous parable of a family in crisis. It has universal application, and frankly that's what Australia needs more of right …
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3.5/4
Blood Runs Thicker Than Water
nyp09 - wrote on 06/12/2010
“Animal Kingdom” is one of the best Australian films to be released in a long time. Not only this, it is perhaps the best crime drama released this year thus far. A film with outstanding characters brought to life by fantastic acting and an extremely well written script by director and writer, David Michod. Joshua Cody(James Frecheville) goes to live with his grandmother (Jacki Weaver) and his uncles after the death of his mother from a heroin overdose. Although this may seem like a better situation, his uncles are a group of armed robbers who the police are always out to get. As the police get closer and more family deaths occur, life gets more and more complicated for Josh. However, blood runs thicker than water.
What an amazing story and script. “Animal Kingdom” has so …
