I like movies such as ‘Lock, Stock…’ and ‘Snatch’ that mix crime with comedy, so, being Aussie, I liked the idea of our own take set in the Cross.

However I found most of the accents distracting. I’m from a similar working-class background to most of the characters, so I usually find it exciting to hear my people’s accents and humour on screen. But it felt really forced. I got the impression that the writers come from the opposite end of Australian society. Normally I wouldn’t judge them if they did a good job, but the delivery of many of the lines felt, at best, charming, and, at worst, patronising. Bryan Brown, Tom Long and Heath Ledger were the only ones I believed. So perhaps the calibre of supporting cast was also to blame.

I don’t like to nitpick over that thing, but it was really overpowering for me. Also, it hasn’t aged too well in the past ten years. If you’re looking for a good black comedy gangster film, give it a miss. Heath Ledger is good, but definitely not at his career high, so maybe worth a look if you’re a big Ledger fan. (If you want to see his Aussie accent in a world class Aussie film, try ‘Candy’ instead.) The main people who would enjoy this are foreigners who want to get a taste of Aussie humour and lingo. We (those of us from the lower-middle classes, anyway) DO talk like this more or less. So if you can look past the awkwardness, you’ll get a pretty good picture of suburban Australian society.

I would normally give a movie like this ‘wishy washy’ or possibly ‘not worth it’ if I was in a bad mood. But Gael Garcia Bernal’s mere presence tends to destroy my critical faculty. Hahaha. It wasn’t his best movie, but worth it for fans of Bernal, or even if not, it’s fairly enjoyable.

I expected to see more than one ‘Not worth consuming’ – perhaps all the other discerning viewers on allconsuming.net were too ashamed to even admit watching this crap. Not that I’m against chick flicks – I watch and enjoy a lot of fluffy movies, but this was horrible and cringeworthy.