This movie has little to recommend it. The characters look and act like people from the Eastern Suburbs transported to the West (where is Melldale? No guts for a real suburb? Villawood and Merrylands are some filming locations). The writers of the film script obviously are not in touch with the Western Suburbs of Sydney - and it would be a gross over simplification to homogenize it all under the label WEST.
The film is very negative, full of negative characters which do not reflect the hard working folk of the "West". Another reviewer, ironically, suggested a movie script for Easties ... as if a decent movie wasn't possible about the Western Suburbs - which are more diverse and multicultural than the relatively homogeneous Eastern Suburbs.
That said, the movie is interesting as a fantasy in its own train wreck sense - the characters spiral into darkness and despair, get murdered, suicide or end up in jail - though is this all the West can lead to? (I, a proud Westie, along with Harry Kewell, must be an exception) One senses the writers have an ax to grind.
The film is very negative, full of negative characters which do not reflect the hard working folk of the "West". Another reviewer, ironically, suggested a movie script for Easties ... as if a decent movie wasn't possible about the Western Suburbs - which are more diverse and multicultural than the relatively homogeneous Eastern Suburbs.
That said, the movie is interesting as a fantasy in its own train wreck sense - the characters spiral into darkness and despair, get murdered, suicide or end up in jail - though is this all the West can lead to? (I, a proud Westie, along with Harry Kewell, must be an exception) One senses the writers have an ax to grind.
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