The film is probably realistic, but would have been better as a shorter documentary.
The Tasmanian bush in winter looks dark and foreboding, and the convicts are a pretty uninspiring lot, divided between the Irish and English. The pace is slow, the killings brutal and none of the convicts are very likeable.
While it successfully recreates the awful experience these men went through, it is too dour to be good cinema.
The Tasmanian bush in winter looks dark and foreboding, and the convicts are a pretty uninspiring lot, divided between the Irish and English. The pace is slow, the killings brutal and none of the convicts are very likeable.
While it successfully recreates the awful experience these men went through, it is too dour to be good cinema.