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So many things wrong with this movie. Where do I start? Terrible script. Very poor stiff acting, literally like they were reading off queue cards. Two plots that barely intersect. Iranians just are not like that. Aboriginals are not like that. This was like a home and away plot from 1990. So bad.. The white racist teenagers jumping out of their car to harrass the aboriginal girl.. Like what? Noone bothers to go to that effort to be racist here.. At worst they might yell some obscenity from the car as they're passing. It was like a 15 year old wrote the script. Like why was the older Iranian brother crying at the end in front of all those people. Completely unrealistic.. Completely unconvincing acting. So you think some tough guy and his friends are going to come in there to exact punishment and then break down in tears infront of everyone. Like it didn't make sense. I can imagine the producers of this film thinking they made some Oscar worthy film, probably patting themselves on the back for a job they perceive was well done. I think they just made an embarassing testament to how bad Australian film can get. There is obviously racism in this country.. But it just doesn't play out the way it did in this film. This film felt reductive. It felt insulting to reality. The plot, the acting, the stupidity of the whole project. Yeah an Iranian mum saying go handle it to her older son knowing she could be putting him in more danger is completely unrealistic. She would be trying to call the police. Make it make sense. Lol

This was absolutely the best Australian miniseries I've ever seen! So intense! So cinematic. So well acted by all of its cast and a story with so many twists and turns. No spoilers here. Just in awe of how well that was made. I've heard people comparing it to similar American series.. But because I don't watch American series.. I don't need to. This is stand alone the best series to come out of Australia in my whole 45 years on earth as far as I'm concerned. This definately deserves a much higher review score than what is currently showing. I know it will do better as more people see it. Even my barely English speaking immigrant parents couldnt stop watching. I guess because I've worked on cattle stations and on mines that are on cattle stations and know of so many real life family scandals from real cattle stations in the Kimberley and NT.. It all just felt absolutely believable... For everyone involved in this production I take my hat off to you. Thank you for such a stellar production and I hope this series wins a record amount of awards! I just binge-watched the whole first season and now I'm busting for season 2.

Awful. They need to stop giving the rights to film makers who don't understand the depth of emotion, of story-telling, of directing, of character development, of a score of all things the things it takes to make a horror masterpiece. Blatty would be turning in his grave. Almost every movie made carrying the Exorcist name since the original film, have been absolute garbage. This latest film is no exception. Only horror newbies and the easily impressed would find this film worth watching. I'm so tired of being disappointed by modern horror film-making. It should be mandatory to study the original Exorcist film in great detail before being allowed to use the name. All the film makers involved in this latest instalment should be greatly ashamed. I've not heard one single person call this new film a master peice of film making. But I suppose we live in a time where masterpieces matter less than hype and quick dollars. And yet a masterpiece would make money for decades. This instalment is just as forgettable as every instalment after the original. This was eight up there as one of the worst instalments in the franchise. Please don't make any more. Oh and by the way, yes the film makers do buy fake 5 star reviews to pump up the movie.

The whole film felt like it wanted so bad to be a shallow comedy. The pop music at pivotal scenes was totally unsuited. None of the prestige of Gucci shone through. The story raced through decades without any context. The accents were appalling. The acting was not the best and the character of Paulo Gucci just seemed like a comedy skit. Not a portrayal of a real person. Salma Hayek, Lady Gaga and the hitmen.. Again comedy skit territory. This didn't have the seriousness of an Oscar contender film. Al Pachino was the only one who got the acting right but even he was hampered by a dull script. At the end all I could feel was sad for the house of Gucci. The fact that there are no Gucci family members left at Gucci. That's the biggest tragedy. It could have also done without the silly portrayals of Anna Wintour and Gianni Versace.. Like why? In fact, let's be real, did the film even feel like a film about a prestigious brand? Not at all. At times it felt like the back story to a cigarette company. I swear I got cancer just from watching all the actors smoke in every scene. The way Ridley Scott directed this film, Gucci-the brand just felt like a supporting character, an extra with no lines. A bit of history on the Gucci brand would have really given the film the depth it sorely lacked. How can one comprehend the tragedy without knowing the love and passion with which the brand was originally built? Having totally trashed it and said all that, I'm also going to add, that I still enjoyed the film and found it entertaining. It's just not the classy film you would expect when watching a film about a brand like Gucci. If anything this movie kind of left the brand feeling cheap and soulless. Especially when the text at the end informs the audience that there are no Gucci family members left at the company. Publicly listed company. Left completely void of soul. But they can get away with anything, solely due to that fact. There's no powerful Gucci family member out there left to object to it.

Warning: Feel free to question my audacity. What a missed opportunity to make something truly great in comedy but also a missed opportunity to show how much the world has changed in 30 years (and no i don't count ipads in shots as being it). Watching this made me realise Eddy's comedy doesn't cut it in 2021. I know the African and royal component was always set in a type of comedy cartoon-like charicature for humour's sake but a modern take on that without cartoonising Africanism or reducing Africanism or African royalism down to one dimensional characters or even cartoonising the black folks of Queens so much or St least giving their characters some dimension would have been much more relatable in 2021. This new take lacked any decent character development. It was all so shallow. Litterally like watching a kids cartoon but littered with your typical American hypersexuality. A comedy can be smart too. It doesn't have to be slapstick. Characters can be more than one dimensional. But the sets, costumes and certain shots were epic. The plot was weak and without any earth shattering surprises. Honestly I could have made a better story with my hands tied behind my back... But I couldn't top those amazing costumes, colours and sets!