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Summary: Relentless....
Review: in its sheer ugliness, which this film spews out with every scene. Think about doing a hate crime? Watch this and it will cool any intolerant ardors. This story of neo-nazi skinheads living on the fringes of Australian society should be viewed as preventive medicine. Or as a sociological case. Grim and merciless in its violence, the film documents the short life and times of a group of nobodies, whose only recourse in life is to hate. Themselves and others. Russell Crowe hands in one of his most intense roles ever. This lad from down under can truly ACT. Crowe slips into the skin of Hando, leader of the group and gives a rivoting performance as one who makes a life out of resentment. Out of hating others. These 'others' are the Vietnamese immigrants who threaten Hando's whiteness. Threaten, because it is all he has. Whiteness. His band of miscreants have nothing to show for themselves. No education, no jobs, not even true love for one another. So their sole raison d'etre is fighting for the one thing they had no role in creating. Their race.The film starts with a truly forboding scene. The thrashing(almost to death) of some hated 'gooks' in an empty underpass. This senseless violence sets the tone for the whole film. It gets worse. Much worse. The skins attempt to ethnically cleanse their neighborhood and then it backfires. The get a taste of their own poison in one of the most adrenalin-pumping scenes ever filmed. I can remember when I first saw this film in my youthful years. My heart just about jumped out with fear. Those shots of the bloodied haters being chased down narrow alleys by a vengeful horde, make you almost pity Hando's gang. But they choose the knive. The film centers around action. Beating, slugging, kniving. In a word, destroying. In an attempt at balance, the film contains the subplot of Gabe, Hando's girl. A runaway from a sexually abusive father, Gabe's as lost as the others. No goal, no plan, no life. Yet, she appears to offer the gang a tinge of civilizing love. Whether demanding mercy for a brutally beaten Vietnamese or cooking for them, she thinks a little love will set these boys straight. When she finds out she is wrong, it is too late. She escapes and gets her revenge by tattling to the police. The noose tightens. All the while of course, one of the skins, Davey, a moody, taciturn 'sensitive' thug begins to have doubts about Hando and his methods. The softening of his heart is no doubt the influence of Gabe, who gives up on the dead-end street of Hando. The end is a Shakespearian intersection of paths taken to their logical conclusion. Hando can't admit he is the one responsible for his meaningless life. It's always the fault of others. The signature of all haters. Davey and Gabe recognize the need for a new start and Hando can't accept this. He won't go down alone..... Not a deep film, nor one with much emotional complexity. But an intense one with its own kind of stark moral. What you breed will eat you. Next time your heart fills with hatred, watch this film and let it purge you back to your senses.
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Summary: great movie, bad specials
Review: i love this movie, but the extras are terrible. My copy doe not have the documentary that it says it's supposed to. does anyone else's have it included? I'm trying to contact Fox about it but i can't find contact information...
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Summary: Anybody Wanna Buy My Copy?
Review: This was probably the worst movie that Russell Crowe ever made. Russell, what caused you to allow yourself to insult your talent in this way? I actually had the nerve to sit through the entire movie, thinking that it would get better, but it didn't. Even the photography was bad. In the beginning, everything was tinted in blue, then everything was tinted in green. There was one small period where everything appeared in normal colors, but that was gone before you know it. I watched it once and I'll never do that again.
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Summary: none of us even knew exsisted?
Review: I'm into alot of sub-culture/underground type films and this is a great movie. I only gave it 4 stars though for following the ever popular trend of nazi skinheads so glorified and exploited by the likes of Morton Downey and Geraldo Rivera to boost ratings on their half baked daytime talk shows. If this movie more accuratly portrayed the ska/oi/hardcore/skinhead sub-culture, this may have been on my top 10 list. Russell Crowe does a great job and honestly this movie is the reason I'm willing to check out all his other movies, if he can take on a topic such as this and still win you over, he must be doing his job pretty well.
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Summary: Hell with a twist
Review: There is nothing stranger then when your watching a movie and the "good" guy just hit someone over the head with a pipe, and yet your still willing to keep watching the movie. This actually happens a couple of times in Geoffrey Wright's Romper Stomper. This movie is a horror movie like none other I have ever seen, showing a fast paced and brutal world that none of us even knew exsisted.
As you watch you follow Hando and his "group" through a life that they got themselves into, but that none of them know how to get out of.
An excellent film with brilliant photography, incredible acting, and a soundtrack that gets your adreneline pumping with every note.
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Summary: awesome
Review: Russell Crow is at his finest as far as i am concerned...very powerful film dealing with racism, it has all the ingredients i would expect from a movie like this and kept the adrenalin flowing throughout the entire movie...
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Summary: Action packed and edgy
Review: Although many people freak out and think this is a very racist movie, I view it from another perspective. Although not all skinheads are of the racist form (just because you don't have hair doesn't make you a Nazi) these guys are and does not show them in a positive light at all. If you can keep your mind open long enough you will find this movie definately worth your time. Not a happy-go-lucky movie by any standards but a good flick.
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Summary: Powerful...
Review: Fantastic film! Breakout performance from Russel Crowe. It can be extemely difficult to watch, but well worth it. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Russell Crowe in peak form
Review: Russell won the Australian equivalent of the Academy Award for this movie. It is hard to watch because of it's content but it ranks among his finest work. I always recommend people watch "The Sum of Us" to get back on an even keel.
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Summary: Romper Stomper
Review: I haven't received it yet.I am still waiting.I wonder what the holdup is.I just sent a note to the seller asking about it.
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