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Summary: A great film
Review: The film Gallipoli is a great film and should be seen by anyone who would like to learn about the harshness of war. Like any film, it has innaccuracies, such as the exaggeration of blame shouldered upon British officers. Whether the mis-timing of the run at The Nek, allowing the Turks to get into their firing positions was entirely due to a watch which didn't read the correct time, I cannot be sure. The sheer bravery that was needed for soldiers to run to their inevitable doom was high, and many Australian and New Zealand men gave their lives and careers to go and fight. However much over-dramatisiation there is in Gallipoli, it is required to teach the world of how cruel, harsh and needless war can be.
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Summary: Mark Lee is not a vegetable
Review: I wanted to correct a previous review from Dec 31, 2000 that stated actor Mark Lee was in a vehicular accident and left a vegetable. This information is patently false. Mark Lee is alive and well, still acting and taking on the occasional directing project. As for "Gallipoli," it's one of my favorite anti-war films and its final image will haunt you for hours, if not days. A friend's sacrifice, giving up his runner position to a more terrified, but less fleet friend, will leave you asking "What if?" A wonderful film and a great companion piece to "Saving Private Ryan."
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Summary: What Did Happen to Mark Lee
Review: Hello..Someone asked what happened to actor Mark Lee of Gallipoli A few years after Gallipoli and before he went to Hollywood, He was invloved in a car accident. Mark did survive, however, it made him a vegetable. It was a great shame that he was injuired. Although you might be quick to blame other factors in this accident, Mark was drink driving at the time of the crash. So there you go. CUZ
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Summary: A Different Point of View at the Great War
Review: Not only did this movie make Mel Gibson a star, it shed light on Australia's point in WWI. And what is great is the movie does not surround the Great War, but the Great War surrounds it. You find two friends in the outback, looking for adventure, but find only horror. One of the greatest war films to date, and one of Gibson's finest performances.
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Summary: A timeless classic
Review: I recently watched this movie for the 5th or 6th time, it had been a decade since I last saw it. This movie is as fresh today as it was in 1981. The human story of this movie is great, the war story even greater. Don't be fooled by the anti-British portrayal or the feeling of 'mateship' that the characters enjoyed, all this adds to the movie. To this day I still believe it is Mel Gibson's best movie role and whatever happened to Mark Lee?. Regardless of age or race, enjoy this human story, the haunting soundtrack and tragic ending. This movie moved me to one day visit the battlefield which claimed so many 'son's of Australia'.
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Summary: Enlightenment on tape
Review: I have recently finished watching and studying Gallipoli for my English class at school. I am a proud New Zealander, and what happened at Gallipoli is a part of my heritage. Any normal person will feel sad for the men who died and their families, and any moral person will know that it was a tragedy of the inhumane kind, but it was only after watching this film that I fully understood why we commemorate the day the soldiers' fate was sealed. This film is a masterpiece in the finest sense. I loved every minute of it, every line, every close up of a soldier who knows he will soon die, and most of all I love how for the first time in my life, I am still moved by a film, 2 weeks after I watched it.
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Summary: Shows that Australians had a part in the war?
Review: As an Aussie, I know the history of Australia in WW1 and this film portrays it extremely well. Very realistic and exciting battle scenes make the final part and the whole movie a great film. Not many people know Australia and New Zealand had a big part in War but infact we have one of the best army in the world. An unpredictable ending and shows the courage of the grunts. Watch it now!
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Summary: Australians at War
Review: A gripping account about a duo of eccentric youths that join the Austrailian Lighthorse in 1915, during the second year of World War One. Mark Lee plays the patriotic Archy Hamilton, who was once a nationally acclaimed sprint runner in his country. Torn from becoming a proffesional athelete and the war, he decides to quit running and fight for his country. Mel Gibson puts on a believable role as the con-man Dunn, who eventually joins together with Hamilton making the ultimate duo of the century. Drawn together from across a continent, the two men meet their destiny on the rocky slopes of Gallipoli, a famous engagement with the German supported-Turks in which the British army attempted to use the Austrailians as a decoy. The under-equiped Austrailians are slaughtered by Turkish machine guns as they try to leap out of the trench. The movie has a terribly sad ending, but is an excellent view on what part the Austrailian Royal Army had in World War One.
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Summary: Unsung Classic
Review: This film was best summarised in the year of its release when a movie critic whose opinion I respected wrote that he was not interested in the Oscar nominations of that year as Gallipoli was not amongst them. I have yet to meet anyone who was not deeply moved by this work. I have not before ( or since ) seen a movie that better illustrates the aching futility and waste of war.
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Summary: a gripping and moving masterpiece
Review: This is one of the best films I've ever seen. Mark Lee and Mel Gibson are magnificent and positively radiant in this tale of two friends caught up in a horrifying war...the innocence of these characters, and their courage, will move you to tears. Peter Weir has made many wonderful films (like "Witness") but none in my opinion as powerful as this. The score by Brian May is beautiful and uses Albinoni's glorious "Adagio in G minor" for the titles, credits, and during the film. If you were only to see 10 films in your entire life, this should be one of them.
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