Animal Kingdom
Directed by:
David MichôdScreenplay:
David MichôdCinematography:
Adam ArkapawComposer:
Antony PartosCast:
James Frecheville, Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Luke Ford, Jacki Weaver, Sullivan Stapleton, Dan Wyllie, Anthony Hayes, Laura Wheelwright (more)VOD (3)
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A crime drama that revolves around a criminal family set in Melbourne's vicious underworld and is loosely inspired by the real events of the Walsh Street police shootings that occurred in Melbourne in 1988. (official distributor synopsis)
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Formally, it’s ok, the problem is that Animal Kingdom feels as if it wanted to be a good gangster flick. Almost every sentence, every look and every scene feels that they are there only because someone wanted to make a universally good gangster movie – it all felt too cynical and forced. There’s no creativity, only an effort to fit in a category. It does work in some way, of course, but I’m not a fan.
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It's probably because I've seen too many similarly toned crime movies lately, but this one simply didn't interest me. The acting performances are good, no doubt about that, but what's the point if I'm watching a movie with characters that are easy to dislike, there's nothing about them that I would want to follow. And in the end, even the story failed to captivate me.
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