Despite the unpromising title, this is a pretty decent Western (set so far West it's in West Australia).
Featuring some very "confronting" scenes of how badly the Aborigines were sometimes treated back in the day (I don't know enough about it to say how common this sort of atrocity was).
I venture to say more confronting than any equivalent American Indian depiction out of Hollywood has dared to be?
Fortunately in this case Tom Selleck is on hand to "lay his vengeance upon them" wrong doo-ers with the aid of his "le long carabine".
"Them" being the always incomparably fiendish Alan Rickman and his crew of unwashed Australians' sporting various degrees of bad Irish accent.
Tom puts in another solid performance, although his American accent is perhaps to East Coast for a cowboy role and he could have done with adding a bit more Southern spice too it, like Laura did.
Laura San Giacomo is surprisingly good as the feisty love interest, although she and "le long Tom" make an strange pairing height wise.
Of course what little Laura lack in height she makes up for in other areas of her anatomy...
The Aboriginals are treated with respect and get to save the day for Tom, when the odds get a bit to long even for him.
As usual in Australian movies, the British are all obnoxious and one dimensional.
Dingo lovers may also be disappointed at the way their favourite canine friends are depicted.
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