Rock Sugar

This film is unbelievably bad from beginning to end. The dialogue is insipid, and the plot has been done over and again so many times that all I could think about during the entire run-time was "The Children's Film Festival with Kukla, Fran, and Ollie." Rarely do I feel like I have wasted precious time watching a movie, but this is one of those rare occasions. It is as if somebody with no budget found local theater actors to perform. I guess maybe that can result in something good on occasion, but in this case, along with the terrible camera work, the end result is a saltless, flavorless foray into a boring, boring excuse for a film.

More like an episode of Home & Away, but without the bay. I'll give it credit for having one interesting plot development. Not much more to say. My favourite right part was trying to guess the suburb it was filmed in. I was way off.

The movie is marginally okay, but I felt that it was cheap in that it played violin music in order to spark thrills. There wasn't anything exciting about the premise, and the scenes of the kids being taunted in the schoolyard were painful to see.

The young actress who played Charlotte has some promise, she carries the film well despite how contrived the script became.

Every adult character in this film was mindless, from the school principal to the parents to the aunt & uncle. This young kid needed some direction, yet no one could steer her the right way. Basically every character is a bully in their own right.

The movie needed a central plot, but the viewer is subjected to adults drinking, school kids acting catty, and a creepy uncle. There's no lesson to learn from it.

So slow and boring. Nothing happens in this movie. I thought it was a thriller but I want to sleep.

Great local thriller with a fabulous cast of Aussie talent, especially the kids. Bullying is still ongoing and its great to see Angela How tackling an often glazed over topic. Well done. Looking forward to more from Angela very soon!