Review by davidgoesboating

Really really average movie, I'm not sure if it was supposed to be a parody... if it was, it was too well-disguised. Not one character in the film was anything other than a caricature, the worst being the sneering bad guy with the moustache. Come on, really? In the film's favour, it does have exciting and even exhilarating moments, at least in the film's first half (at which point it could have quite comfortably ended, actually). If the film had ended halfway through, I might have been able to overlook its more clichéd tendencies. However, the longer it ran, the more the movie was exposed as little more than a hackneyed mess.

The stolen generation thing was a real problem as well. This is the film's primary message - the injustice of the stolen generation and the impact it had on the children. Yet how can this concept be treated justly in a near-parodic film where every single character is a cardboard cut-out, and every event seems contrived and unrealistic? Where the villains are racists brimming with hatred and ignorance, and the heroes are thinkers ahead of their time dealing with concepts that are way deeper than this movie could ever reach?