Luckily 2 of the Geektress girls LOVED it so encouraged me to watch it.
Yes it was very long, but it was stunning looking, well paced and all the accents were in tact (thankfully so was Kidman's English accent). The story was a bit of a potential tear-jerker which is not normally my bag but I abso-bloody-lutely loved it.
It started out as a glossy Western with Kidman travelling to the middle of nowhere, Australia to see her husband who was running a cattle ranch. She captured the terribly English ra-ra Lady very well I thought and slowly changed through the course of the film to a decent bird with a pair of nuts. Although she did get to snog Hugh Jackman a few times which was rather upsetting.
Jackman was bloody great too, playing a common drover who is lumped with this pain-in-the-arse English woman..nice to hear him do his native accent too.
The film changes from Western to War film at 1hr 45 mins and the whole mood shifts with it - wasn't sure if this would work but it was bloody cool. Kudos too to David Wenham who played the baddie - another native Aussie who was just plain nasty.
I've got to say too that even the little kid in it was brill - I usually bloody hate kids in films cuz a lot of them struggle with the whole acting thing....but the little guy that played a helf-white, half-aboriginal kid was cute as a button and acted Kidman off the screen a couple of times :)
Loads of people hate this film and I think it got panned. I have to admit i probably wouldn't have bothered if it didn't have Hugh Jackman in, but I'm glad the girls ordered me to watch it
