★ 10 / 10
Always enjoy Guy Pearce. And this is so
Madam D
Always enjoy Guy Pearce. And this is so well written that the film has to be 5 stars.
Always enjoy Guy Pearce. And this is so well written that the film has to be 5 stars.
★ 3 / 10
Another show I wanted to like but the
STEPHEN P
Another show I wanted to like but the incredibly out of date jokes and humor were is such poor taste and so planted that it came across as just corny and…
Another show I wanted to like but the incredibly out of date jokes and humor were is such poor taste and so planted that it came across as just corny and reaching with no originality. Sorry but after this I will not sample the other Jack Irish series
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★ 3 / 10
Slightly gobsmacked by all the great reviews for
Frocked U
Slightly gobsmacked by all the great reviews for this. Given that it stars Guy Pearce, who's been flawless in everything else - that includes his committed…
Slightly gobsmacked by all the great reviews for this. Given that it stars Guy Pearce, who's been flawless in everything else - that includes his committed stint in the Neighbours finale - I figured it would be classy, but holy smokes, what the hell?! (by the way, some SPOILER ALERTS ahead!).
It's preposterous and inconsistent, with plenty of things which make absolutely no sense, but for which there's no explanation (such as: why does Jack continue to drive the car in which his wife was shot dead?). Maybe some of the clanging aspects of this are also in the book, but if it hadn't been made in 2012, I'd have thought the script was written by AI. At one point, Linda asks Jack if his current vendetta is to assuage his guilt for not adequately presenting his (recently murdered) ex-client some years ago, to which Jack says he didn't have any guilt back then, he was too angry... but what's that got to do with the price of fish?! She means guilt now for what happened then, so his response makes no sense.
You may want to put the kettle on when reaching one of the clunky, unnecessary sex scenes (as a side note, I did wonder if Marta Dusseldorp was thrilled with the excessive nudity - her boobs seem to get a lot of screen time), though actually, the final one was pretty (intentionally) funny.
I had no idea why any of the actors signed up for this (I guess big pay cheques, and the likelihood of more instalments), and even though I'd expect Guy Pearce to usually be the bees' knees, he seems to be directed very strangely here, and peskily, the ace Aaron Pedersen isn't given much to do 'til towards the end.
Other minor hilarity/grumbles: there's a henchman who looks exactly like Ringo Starr! And the mother of one character (I think there are a total of four female characters in the entire film, three of them incidental) tells Jack that before he went missing, she'd made her son his favourite breakfast: 'Scrambled eggs with toast soldiers'. Who eats soldiers with scrambled eggs? You dip them in a boiled egg, script-writing dodos!
All in all, I found this weirdly, surprisingly awful. But am almost intrigued to watch an episode of the TV series, just to see if it improved...
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