John Chard
King George angry at them white fellas. King George say them white fella bad spirit. Must be taken from this land.
Australia is directed by Baz Luhrmann and Luhrmann co-writes the screenplay with Stuart Beattie, Ronald Harwood, and Richard Flanagan. It stars Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown and Brandon Walters.
It took a bit of a kicking from the pro critics upon release, where the consensus is that at a cost of $130 million this intended sprawling epic is an ambitious flop. For the record at the box office it practically made double its outlay, so certainly wasn't a financial flop.
It's a mixed bag for sure, a film of two differing halves. First half sends Kidman's English aristocrat to Northern Australia af...