Rachael
Blake in a
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Those
Dear Departed
(1987)
Those
Dear Departed is a
comedy about a
renowned stage actor
named Max Falcon
(Garry McDonald) who
is about to be killed
by his wife Marilyn
(Pamela Stephenson)
during a performance
of his play Fraud! The
Musical. He survives,
but unperturbed,
Marilyn continues to
make attempts on his
life while continuing
her affair with his
driver, Richard (Marian
Dworakowski),
who is a poet. After
she accidentally
poisons Max's agent
Norda (Su
Cruickshank), the
police, including
Inspector Jerry (John
Clarke) and his
sergeant Steve
(Jonathan Biggins)
become involved and
place the blame on
Max. Well until
Marilyn and Richard
fake Max's suicide and
finally off Max. Max
goes to 'theatre
heaven' (surely
hell...), where with
Norda and his long
lost father, they
contrive a way from
the afterlife to get
Marilyn to confess to
Max's murder, but all
it results in is
Marilyn falling in
love with Max again
and the death of
Richard when he starts
seeing their ghosts.
So, will Marilyn
confess or will she
continue her homicidal
rampage and continue
to get away with
murder?
Terrible,
terrible movie,
incredibly unfunny and
worse for a comedy
about a homicidal
maniac, just
uninteresting. One of
those 80s comedies
when they just
discovered that death
is actually funny
except there's not a
much funny about this.
A great comedy cast
has been assembled but
material their given
is appallingly bad.
McDonald's character
is a terrible bore and
hedging the movie on
this annoying
character was a major
error. Stephenson's
character gets the
only good stuff in the
movie, which isn't
much, but one scene
involving her sniper
shooting one of the
cops is badly
misjudged and belongs
in a different movie.
Appropriately, this
movie died a horrible
death at the box
office and barely
lasted a week which is
saying something
considering some of
the movies that I've
seen get a release.
unidentified in a
DVD-quality film clip
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Casino
Reef
(1998)
Casino
Reef is a 1998
thriller set in the
Gold Coast. Devoted
cop and husband Matt
Phoenix (Colin
Handley) takes down a
drug dealer and kills
him in the process. To
keep up appearances,
Phoenix is suspended
from the force, but is
secretly picked up by
the new crime team,
the ICA, who have been
set up to take down
notorious local
kingpin Castelano
(John Orcsik), the man
who supplied the money
in that raid.
Castelano decides to
kill Phoenix by
placing a bomb in his
car, but Phoenix's
wife and daughter are
in the car when it
goes off, killing the
wife and badly burning
the daughter. Phoenix
decides to dive
headlong into work,
assigned to protect
eccentric inventor
Smithy (Robin
Stewart), who has
created an engine that
works in an
environmentally
friendly way, much to
the chagrin of
Castelano and his
oil-loving buddies.
Well, Smithy and his
niece are kidnapped by
a group led by one of
the ICA's more
renegade members and
it's a race against
time to get them back
and stop Castelano.
Incredibly low-rent
made-for-TV thriller.
It stunningly has a
revered TV director in
the director's chair,
but man, is this movie
at the very low end of
things. Awful clichéd
plot and script, then
there's the terrible
acting including one
topless actress who
looks like she was
forced at gunpoint to
be in it although
former Bless This
House/Pacific Banana
actor Robin Stewart is
having a blast as
Smithy. Some scenes
are just laughable
with anything
involving the Russian
member of the ICA just
ridiculous including
shooting a bloke
backwards while lying
on a moving motorbike
and so many hot Gold
Coast babes turning
up, not really in any
roles of note, but
looking hot
nonetheless. I would
say that this is one
of the worst movies
ever made in
Australia, but there
isn't any allusions to
anything great unlike
the appalling Those
Dear Departed, which
has no excuse.
Deanne
Imber, Nicole
Kelso and others
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