Red_Identity A solid Australian drama that is filled with some good performances from a very talented cast. Blanchett stands at the very top, of course, having the meatiest character in the film and doing great stuff (reminds me a lot of her work in Notes on a Scandal, in just its sheer desperation). The film perhaps does a pretty repetitive job of sort of highlighting its themes, but its still rather effective. It's nice to see Hugo Weaving in a role that's nor The Lord of the Rings (but rather, that's sort of my own fault). Overall, I don't think this is great, but it's definitely a good watch. It's grim, well-paced, gritty while never being too hard-to-watch, and ultimately, recommended definitely.

brianoh2 Crap about a bunch of losers. Depressing, uninteresting, and boring.Set in Sydney, Australia.It beats me why Sam Neill and Cate Blanchet would participate in such dribble.Cate's boyfriend, another junkie, returns from Canada to work as a stockbroker.Her brother, another junkie, was injured badly in a car accident. It appears that the car was driven by the boyfriend.Nothing interesting or original or entertaining.In addition, it appears that Cate was a former junkie and who appears to be her old man wants help getting drugs because he also is badly hooked.Just crap and more crap.Good actors don't make a bad screenplay a good movie.

bekteke You can see how Australian families and their typical life. They can't be happy all the time.Sometimes ex-boyfriends,sometimes relatives who use or sell drugs come and ruin everything.their marriage never keep going good but they make friendship lots of people and they have lots of lovers.Beside the whole bed life sometimes one girl listens music and remember past that remind her happy days.when the music ands hopeless life continuous...I cant say that they will be happy when they get some money for her business because every time bad things can be occur due to these people's life without spirit.However they remind life soul when one of them die or they lost everything.

davek28 I watched this on DVD and my finger was hovering over the Fast Forward button through most of the film. I managed to resist until the last twenty minutes and discovered that I understood about as much of it in fast forward as I did at normal speed -- nothing at all. It appears to be about some druggy people in a Chinatown area of Sydney, Australia. It's all very depressing, without really knowing why. It's a cliché, I know, but there are better ways to spend your time than watching this movie -- washing dishes or doing the ironing spring to mind.Despite having some top rate Australian talent in it (Sam Neill, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving) it starts nowhere and stays there right till the end. It didn't help that I didn't understand a lot of the dialogue and there were no subtitles to help me. This despite the fact that I lived in Sydney for a while, so it must be because a lot of the dialogue is muttered unintelligibly.I'd have ticked the spoiler box for this comment if I thought I'd understood what was happening enough to relay it to others. Sadly, I don't really know what happened to anybody at the end (bar one).My advice is to give it a miss. It's very frustrating, which is worse than boring.