Rough Stuff

A film about a bunch of bush people who love four wheel drives that try and find fools gold but it never quite delivers. It's trying to be a hollywood action film drop in a hot American girl and you think you have a movie. Trying too hard to emulate 80s or 90s adventure / action films. It only delivers on some action, but the characters are boring, the dialogue not very good and the actors as well as they are good, there's nothing special happening. Don't waste your time this film is so boring even with all the adventure. The missing ingredient is EMOTION, there's nothing compelling or interesting to draw you in. It's shot well too so not too many positives here.

An Australian adventure; A story about a group of treasure hunters who travel into the Australian bush in search of a legendary stash of gold. Soon they face danger, lies and betrayal. This film is about 20mins too long and suffers from poor editing and poor storyboarding. While there is a good soundtrack and a fun sense of adventure as it rolls, the dialogue misfires. It has a shifting tone - it can't decide whether to be an action-comedy or a straight adventure film. We enjoy a mystery villain for a while which keeps up the tension but it drains away by the third act. A very big explosion was probably needed at the end of the convoluted plot to justify the investment in the main character. Instead we get a romance bolted on and a stub of an ending.

Bad acting.... bad practical effect but it was a good laugh, the very much not impressive soundtrack didn't help hyp you up and didn't do anything good for the film..... The only thing this movie could provide was confusion.... It only left me thinking, how did they not see that, how could they miss that, how the f.... what happened there, are they for real?

The fighting scenes were not something to get excited over as well, being hard to follow what happened in the moment and not seeing the logic in what and why they chose to make it like that. Morten Korch fighting scenes are gold compared to this, and they were made 60-80 years ago....

I saw this for the first time as an overnight rental from my local video store.

If you're looking for a Fast and Furious style Aussie movie with a strong storyline, you will be disappointed (face it, you didn't watch fast and furious for the storylines, it was always about "cars and girls, cars and girls" ref: directors commentary of 2 Fast 2 Furious). If you're looking for movie where you get to see the Australian outback, some four wheel driving... and somewhat of a story line in the background similar to Fools Gold, throw in some Aussie slang and a couple of Americans who are confused by every bit of slang used, then this is for you.

Where did this movie come from.

I saw this in early 2018 and had nothing to go on besides a great trailer that seemed fun. This movie was incredible and truly a hidden gem that deserved more buzz.

The film has different plots that intersects. It's an adventure film, with some action and some chase scenes and really good acting. Characters who are brave and conflicted play the parts well. Characters with morality, show their chink in the armour. It is just a fun overall movie and solid action adventure comedy.

It's a film that makes fun of tree huggers, and takes some twists and turns along the way. You end up liking the main characters for as the story makes you pull for the macho men and the lost tree huggers. There is a really good chase scene involving 4x4's; just an awesome scene.

This movie is fun, macho and unappologetic for it.

If you like fun movies, that has action adventure, this is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED viewing.

9.5 out of 10.