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 (1)
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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)
Reviews (2)
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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I guess it's because I've seen too many similarly-themed crime movies lately, but I just didn't enjoy this one. The acting is good, no question about it, but what's the point of me watching a movie with characters that are easy to hate, when there's nothing about them that I want to watch? And in the end, even the story failed to pull me in.
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