SunnyHello Nice effects though.

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Kirpianuscus A good film. for cinematography, story and performances. for preserve the rules and atmosphere of old fashion western. proposing a not new but well made story about past traces, revenge and a young officer in a small town front to its crime. one of good motifs for see "Red Hill" is the admirable job of Ryan Kwanten who gives a vulnerable, honest and brave character in precise details of each virtue. and that is the start point for enjoy a film proposing more than a story but being a pledge for small fundamental virtues defining us.

freemanpatrick7 Great cinematography, decent acting, but a really dumb script. A dumb story about a stupid cop who doesn't deserve to live. And the technical direction is pathetic. Cooper passes out from loss of blood (or was that fear) yet later he can carry a wounded cop for who knows how long?Everybody keeps racking their shotguns without dropping shells. That means there was nothing in the chamber. So why are they running around with empty chambers?Bill said Cooper had never shot a bullet? They don't train cops to use guns in Australia?Just when you're wondering if Cooper is ever going to bleed to death he suddenly has enough strength to lift heavy tables and ride a horse at high speed, then jump off said horse.Cooper breaks the window of a car where the door is clearly unlocked.His wife isn't the least bit interested in why he's covered in blood.Apparently rifle shots into the air create ricochets. Against what, I couldn't guess.Not one cop in the whole town can hit what he's aiming at, until the end, then not one of the cops' stray bullets even comes close to Cooper.Whoever said this was like No Country for Old Men must have been hallucinating. It was just bad bad bad script writing, from the very beginning to the end. But hey, it looked good.

alshwenbear1 An Australian Western that goes into my favorite's list! Like "Good for Nothing" (2011) ...a great ending to a well crafted story.Even though I predicted the real situation, I went along with it, because instead of ruining the movie, the "why" and "how" became the valuable questions, to separate the good from the bad, "Jimmy" is a combination of Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson and Eli Wallach (without the cynical grim) I just wished that the black panther, could have been more relevant and be somehow one reason for a sequel! The ending it will touch you, let's leave it like that, as always no spoilers in here. So if you are looking for shootouts, and horses with a simple scenario and a good story, "Red Hill" is for you!

MBunge As a modern Western, a slight twist on the standard revenge flick and an old fashioned morality play, Red Hill is a nice little taste of Australian cinema goodness. Writer/director Patrick Hughes has penned an unsurprising but still involving story and backs it up with strong imagery of the vastness of nature and the cruelty of men. With a solid cast and just the right amount of violence to propel things along without overwhelming the narrative, this is a pretty entertaining flick. A sparsely drawn main character who seems more like a passive observer than a protagonist and probably underestimating how quickly most viewers will figure out its mystery are the only big flaws here but Red Hill avoids so many other of the standard pitfalls of this sort of thing that it feels refreshingly familiar instead of tiresomely repetitive.Shane Cooper(Ryan Kwanten) is a young constable starting his first day on his new assignment in the small, country town of Red Hill. He's got a pregnant wife (Claire van der Boom) at home and a hard charging inspector named Old Bill (Steve Bisley) who makes it clear that this is his town and Cooper's a relatively unwelcome guest. Everything changes, however, when convicted murderer Jimmy Conway (Tom E. Lewis) breaks out of prison and Cooper finds Bill and a collection of townsmen in a near panic at his prospective return. Cooper is the first one to encounter Conway, barely escapes with his life and spends most of the film trailing behind Conway on his path of death, slowly unraveling the real secret of Red Hill. Oh, and there's a panther that shows up.This motion picture is entirely about the conflict between Conway and the men of Red Hill. I would guess that Shane Cooper was injected into the script because of the supposed box office need for a young, attractive star but I don't think it was necessary. Ryan Kwanten does a good job on screen and there's a minor subplot with Shane and his wife but you could remove Shane, beef up the roles of Old Bill, Conway and the others and have a movie that was just as good, if not a little better. A bit better because without Shane, I suspect writer/director Hughes would have realized the mystery of Conway's revenge is too obvious and added a few more layers of subterfuge and misdirection to the plot. It does feel like Hughes came up with the story of Red Hill and only added in the "new guy in town" element later on to make it more commercially viable.I don't think he had to do that because Steve Bisley is crackerjack and the character of Jimmy Conway is intriguing in his stoic muteness. Watching Conway plow through the rest of Old Bill's posse until the two of them finally meet would have been more than enough to pull in the audience and keep them watching. No one besides Shane, Bill and Conway get enough time and space on screen to show much personality, but the tiny bit of depth and definition Hughes gives of a couple of other constables (Kevin Harrington and Richard Sutherland) is interesting enough that I kind of wish Shane didn't occupy so much of Red Hill.Hughes completely scores with is invocation of the wide open spaces of rural Australia. It gives an almost epic frame to this story of personal revenge, though Hughes doesn't appear to have a grasp on how slowly people actually move when they're on foot, particularly if they're seriously wounded. He does use distance to answer that age old question of this genre, namely "Why can't a bunch of guys manage to defend themselves against a single person?" The characters in Red Hill have so much ground to cover that splitting up into more easily killable numbers is perfectly logical, rather than stupidly cliché.If Shane Cooper had been more deeply woven into or totally removed from the plot, this might have been a very good movie. As it is, Red Hill remains a clear cut or two above average and well worth seeing.