Bring Him to Me

Terrible script. Awful accents. Nice lighting though!

Clearly an Australian-shot film trying to be American, but failing badly. Why do this? Australian crime dramas are perfectly fine, no need to USA-it at all?

So funny to see them drive on the right-hand side of the road, but then to see other cars parked on the left.

Rachel Griffiths' accent was the worst - she'd be embarrassed. Was she from Boston or Queensland? Maybe born in one but raised in the other?

It tried so hard to be moody, but the random insertion of 'deep' dialogue made it comical.

The worst movie I've seen in a long, long time.

Boring, storyline all over the place, the story uninteresting, basically 2 guys in a car driving and talking for a majority of the movie. 2 American leads, primarily an Aussie cast and filmed in Queensland Australia.. why bother making it set in America?! I can't tell what accent Rachel Griffiths was going for, Boston? Cause it sounded more Australian if anything. Its just a meh, forgettable movie. Not sure the other reviewers saw the same movie then I did. Don't know, just did nothing for me. Thankfully it was only 96 minutes. And what was with that ending?! It just stops! Don't see this in the cinema, lol.. I had no one else in my theatre.

This movie about criminals, a heist gone a bit awry, money missing, and someone has to pay for that, the motivations, the tempers - has a bit of a timing and editing problem, and the story starts generic enough, then turns into a road movie drawn out, and takes a few unexpected turns down that road.

It is not really deep, but worked to make me care for the two mains. And some of the other characters are fun.

Some cookie-cutter bad guys, some chase scenes, and a successful underlying tension of what will happen when / if they get there.

This film is about seeing it through, but what and why gets twisted.

It was good acting, and it has a nice ending.

This flic could have have been so much more. It tried to be an action movie but there wasn't a lot of action, instead it centered mostly around driving in a car. It tried to build up emotion for a good revenge movie but it all came too late and then it just abruptly ended. It tried to be a message movie about how crime doesn't pay, but even that simple message got messed up. It even tried to be a straight forward crime drama, but because of the wanderings of the script it didn't even really succeed at that.

The script was definitely sub par, with no continuity at all, despite having some decent actors. The atmosphere was ok, dark and rainy, but it didn't pertain to anything useful in the plot. I do like Barry Pepper, his character acting is great, but the script didn't allow him to come across in any meaningful way; Jamie Costa's performance was also good, but again, he was wasted due to the poor script. Though without him I probably would have rated this more of a 3. Sam Neill's role was one of the few in the movie that made sense, though quite short. Rachel. Griffiths role was quite good as the dragon lady, but even that was pulled down because of all the silliness going on in the end scenes.

All in all, a movie that had the opportunity to make a defining statement, but failed utterly to do so.

As in the saying that tells us that if one does not go to the other ... well you have heard of it I assume, so let's skip it, not forgetting to remind you that no pun(s) is intended ... and we (me) are on the safe side after all.

Good actors assemble though I reckon most will especially know Barry Pepper - he really relishes in his role, even when the story (well if you can call it that, there is not much there of course) is really challenging ... and not really giving the viewer a lot of satisfying conclusions ... it does give you some action scenes and there is tension (and thrill(er) moments) of course. A b-movie ... you should be aware what this offers and it does mostly deliver on it ..