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Strangerland
(2015)
Strangerland
is a mystery drama where
parents Catherine and
Matthew Parker (Nicole
Kidman and Joseph Fiennes)
are distraught after the
disappearance of their son
and daughter after a dust
storm engulf the town.
Already reeling from
issues involving their 15
year-old daughter Lily
(Maddison Brown) and her
affair with a teacher,
resulting in the family
moving to a new town,
Matthew is readying
himself for another
scandal and decides to
avoid looking for his kids
by working at his
pharmacy. Catherine is not
handling the children's
disappearance well at all
and is falling into old
habits. The investigation
and search led by local
cop David (Hugo Weaving)
is running into dead end
after dead end, but not
without bringing up some
problems. It seems that
Burtie (Meyne Wyatt), the
slow brother of his
partner Coreen (Lisa
Flanagan), has had
relations with the
promiscuous Lily and he
isn't the only one. But,
could Burtie kill the
missing children. Things
become more clouded when
Matthew finally does his
own searching and finds
his son alive, but
severely dehydrated. Now
it is a race against time
to find Lily and you can
only survive so long in
the outback.
A strange misfire
considering the talent
involved, Strangerland
never really gathers much
interest in its story of a
troubled family. While
Kidman is alright in her
role, Fiennes is lumped
with a thankless role, all
anger (he bashes or
attempts to any suspect
that comes to light) or
he's shunted off when
anything emotional needs
to happen. Weaving doesn't
fair much better as a cop
who seems to spend more
time fending off
Catherine's advances than
investigating. Ultimately,
it's not really the actors
fault as the screenplay is
weak, even including some
unnecessary stuff
involving Aboriginal
legends and the mystery is
handled poorly. And the
ending, ah forget about
it. Strangerland reminds
me a helluva lot of one of
the worst Australian
movies I've ever seen, The
Missing, their plots are
very similar, although The
Missing was very heavy on
turning Aboriginal legends
into mumbo jumbo.
Strangerland is only
slightly better than that.
Very disappointing...
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