I went and saw 'Australia'...

Terrible. Absolutely awful.

Too long, too boring, bad acting, full of mistakes, unrealistic CGI...

(WARNING: spoilers follow)

But the worst part was the end of the droving. It's decided with two groups of cows racing down the docks trying to be the first onto a ship.

I'll say that again. One of the 'highlights' of the film is watching two cattle herds race down a wharf and onto a boat.

Honestly, I'm pretty sure that the ending of Homeward Bound was more exciting. How are we supposed to get excited and worked up about a freakin' cow race?!?!

The only half decent part of the film, after you've numbed your butt through an hour and a half of the cow sub-plot, is the bombing of Pearl Harbour and subsequent rescuing of the orphanages. Even so, it follows all the standard movie cliches, with the self-sacrificing friend of the hero, the last-minute reuniting of hero and heroine, and a final threat that is foiled by the deus ex machina. Yes, the ending of this film is so absurd, and the worst part is this: they believe someone has been shot. But the trigger was never pulled because the bad guy got speared. So where did the sound of the gunshot come from??? Why did the fall to the ground and lie prone?

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Now I'm just making myself annoyed. Plenty of people liked it. It's my recommendation that you wait for the rental, because there is no reason to pay big bucks to see it on the big screen. Our party ended up paying over $70 combined for cinema tickets only to decide that a $7 rental would have been a much better option... but the film still would have sucked.