Red Hill

It should be a red flag when everyone you meet is unfriendly and has a massive attitude problem that the town has a secret, and that you moved to the wrong place. The film would have worked a whole lot better, and been a whole lot more interesting if the characters were likable first. Just saying. This isn't anything like No Country for Old Men. At all. This is a "cop on his first day on a new job movie that goes sideways into a revenge plot that he has absolutely nothing to do with, and for most of the film is left out of the action" movie. Seriously he got carried out of town and dropped off at one point. He has to walk back into town like 3 times! It has a lot of needless shotgun racking, and idiotic character behavior, but it also has some well shot sequences.

I don't understand Derek's review - ROTTEN - see above ..."short on originality and sustained tension as it is long on striking widescreen vistas and impressive technical smarts". To me those 2 aspects make this movie a 5 STAR film. PLUS the soundtrack is a suberb blend of modern Austrailian and tradional aborinigal sounds. I have never bought a soundtrack before, and I am 51 and watch 1 to 2 films a day. The story has twists, the acting is top-notch, a great shoot em up akin to the Good Bad and the Ugly. The ending is surprsing AND emotional. How else can the audience support the Freddy Kruger type devil that would not die. See it ...Denver Law

I thought this was an awesome movie. The other reviews confuse me. I rented this movie with very low expectations, and was blown away. In my top 100 movies (not top 10, but definitely in top 100). The cinematography was actually stunning, and although the plot was, well, a stretch, they did it really well.

Absolutely the worst movie I've seen in years. Don't waste your money. No redeeming qualities.

This is a great movie, I am shocked it only has 3 stars! If you are on the fence, trust me this is a great movie!!!

I got to tell you, I liked this movie a lot. I loved how it felt much like a western. It was gripping, gritty, and suspenseful. And Jimmy Conway is awesome! I will say this... I'm not sure everyone who watches this movie will like it... and yes many people say the same thing about other movies and I will say this as they have also said... you won't know if you like it until you watch it. It was honestly a delight!

movie was ridiculous

I liked it. I suppose it could have been better, but it's no where near as bad as the guy above was making it sound. Overall it's worth renting.

A western-esque tail with a simple premise of revenge. Overall the story feels underbaked and at the same time doesn't relish being rawly brutal.

The poorly constructed, simplistic, and cliche story that is Red Hill would be laughable, if not for its complete failure to create any excitement, which is to say: if not for its success in boring me into an all-out pause-a-thon*. The directing is adequate, but it really irritated me how Hughes went so far to copy the Coen brothers, especially their No Country for Old Men, which I didn't like much anyway, which explains why I HATED this movie: Nothing but a low-budget Aussie rip-off of that. You've got the silent--very ethnic--assassin. You've got hillbillies running around like decapitated poultry who spread shotgun shells as indiscriminately as Vegemite. And really the only departure from this Coen Bros. homage is Ryan Kwanten, who can not act to save his life. (Yes, I know. The ladies love him--for some reason that I will never-ever understand, BUT HE CAN'T ACT!) I love how poorly he conveys tension and fear when he's confronted, again and again, by nightmarish fear-of-God instances, e.g., when a crazy aboriginal is pointing a loaded gun at him, or when he discovers one of his coworkers has been disemboweled. Had a competent actor been put in his place, this movie may have been pretty decent. (Oh well, too late now for casting changes. Darn!) *Pause-a-thon is any movie that is sooo bad that one is made more curious about bathroom breaks and snacks than the actual movie, and thus, is forced to put it on pause every 20 minutes or so. P.S. To the director: Go back to working with Ashley Tisdale. She's more on your "frequency," mate.