Comment:
There isn't much to say about this independent Australian production. While the director clearly hoped to make something catchy and outstanding, the result is a movie that has a marked personal touch but that overall is average.

The story is about a couple of stealers: Nikki, who seduces rich men, takes them in a motel room and drugs them and Al who helps her to take away all their money. However, everything starts to fall apart when one of these men dies and they get from him a video tape that shows a famous ex-soccer player, Zipper Doyle, in a compromising pedophile situation. So they are forced to run away, chased by the police and by Zipper. On their way they meet various strange people that often dies mysteriously...

The most interesting peculiarity of this movie is the editing. At the beginning it seems a rather eccentric but still good idea to use jump cuts, short takes and to have the same scene shot from many camera angles but this soon becomes excessive and pointless. Instead of using this technique in a creative way, possibly giving more importance to various particular scenes, the director used (and overused!) this bizarre editing all over the movie, just like a child plays with a new game all the day!

The main characters aren't so charming and this doesn't really make the movie more attractive. Fortunately, some of the minor characters are more curious and sometimes are so weird that reminded me of some David Lynch movies... this is a positive thing for me! Also, a very few dialogues are witty, probably the best moment of the movie is the dialogue between the two detectives when one of them tells a completely unlikely and fake story of his life to his disconcerted partner. However this is an isolate episode and it has nothing to do with the rest of the movie...

Most of the movie is boring, slow and full of banal details. I understand that they had limited resources compared to Hollywood big productions but this isn't an excuse to fill the script with childish elements that the modern and expert audience can spot immediately! Incidentally, I wonder if the budget was so limited that they were forced to not to have any soundtrack at all or if this was another stylistic approach... I realised that there were no music at all near the middle of the movie but this became far too evident during the silent ending credits!