Pork Pie

Ozzie/Kiwi stunner.

Great warm and chuckling feeling all the way through the film. Great acting and the film work was equally as good.

Just go watch it.

PS about the only unbelievable thing about the film was a mini could go for so long without breaking down......

:) Excellent. 8/10

Novelist Jon (Dean O'Gorman) is walking down the middle of the road when he almost gets run over by Luke Anahera (James Rolleston) in his Mini Cooper. Jon gets a ride with Luke without knowing that the car is stolen. Along the way, they pick up Keira Leigh-Jones (Ashleigh Cummings), a vegan activist working a burger drive-thru window.

The original was apparently a New Zealand hit. I know nothing about any of that. I come into this completely blind and this is fine. Mostly, I like the three characters and their initial get-together. I would like all of them to stay together. There are a few questionable turns and the big car chase is somewhat amusing. At the end of the day, the characters make me like the movie.

Having never seen the original or even heard of this I absolutely loved it tons of laughs as well as great chases and enough of a storyline to get by. The most I've laughed watching a film in a while a complete hidden gem!

As a standalone movie it is OK, although the character development is somewhat lacking. It was a bit hard to connect to the main character.

Some nice scenery shots but the trip through this beautiful country we call New Zealand was disjointed with little to identify the locations.

It didn't have the same feeling as the original. The silliness that made Goodbye Pork Pie a fun film just wasn't present there for me.

In debut writer/director Matt Murphy's 2017 action-drama "Pork Pie" (remaking 1980's iconic "Goodbye Pork Pie") James Rolleston, Dean O'Gorman & Ashleigh Cummings (each in a personal crisis) come together in a stolen Mini Cooper S revving from New Zealand's North Island to the foot of it's South, attracting increasing police & media attention as they rise in prominence like modern Bonnie & Clydes. Performances are fresh (esp Rolleston & O'Gorman) and the film particularly showcases the car & NZ's beautiful countryside (as a fine sales job for both). While not atop the anti-hero genre, it's still an enjoyable escapist romp.