This Australian import's combination of cinematic chutzpah and supernatural overtones goes a long way to overcoming the scripts utter disregard for logic. Narrated in part by a dead man, it suggests that that crime films down under aren't as dependent on standard genre formulas as their American cousins. Though Ex-boxer Jimmy (Heath Ledger) hasn't learned from his late-brother's example that crime doesn't pay. Strapped for cash, he leaps at the chance to do odd jobs for arch-criminal Pando (Bryan Brown). When Jimmy can't deliver a $10,000 payment the client succumbed to a drug overdose Jimmy foolishly decides to cool off at the beach and buries his bund...
Released:
1998
Rated:
NR
Length:
89 mins