Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

matt-320-565798 This film sets off with an interesting story and tone, enough to reel anyone in who could be so compelled to unravel what appears to be a small town mystery. But as the story picks up and we begin to learn more about the characters, the mystery doesn't seems to remain stuck in the first act, with very little discovered to deepen the plot. The sense you get though is "wait, its about to happen!", and you wait... and wait... until the very end... and then.... nothing. Zero pay off is the result. Characters basically accept the situation albeit with regrets, and credits roll. Very disappointed that the time investment in the long, slow-burning drama eventuated to nothing when it had u begging for answers. Beautiful cinematography and art direction though, and acting was great too, although I feel the characters were also expecting to build towards something of a more rewarding and mysterious conclusion as well.

thewhistlers A modern-day version of Picnic at Hanging Rock which was a classic. This wasn't. Not even close. Kidman does her best to save the day as the mother whose children go missing. Fiennes (the husband) has his moments as does Weaving (the police officer) but the plot is as uninspiring as the outback town in which this is set.

Tss5078 Set in the Australian outback, Strangerland tells the story of a family that has recently relocated to a small town that is literally in the middle of nowhere. The move seemed like an odd choice, but as you will later find out, it was a necessary one, but needless to say no one is particularly happy about it, especially the families two kids. One day there is a report of a large dust storm headed towards town and the parents go to get their children to safety, only to discover they are nowhere to be found. The local sheriff is called in, but he's not moving fast enough for the father, so he takes things into his own hands, further complicating things. Aside from the unusual setting and circumstances of the disappearance, this film isn't all that original, in fact, except for the ending and the location, it was really very similar to the film, Prisoners. The investigation was fairly interesting, as was the setting, Hugo Weaving was good as the sheriff, but was really the only interesting character with any kind of personality or background of interest. As for the rest of the cast, they're kind of just there, they don't talk much about themselves or their past and the film has an extremely narrow focus. Nicole Kidman just cries a lot and Joseph Fiennes wants to yell at anyone who will listen, which unfortunately is us. The bottom line, Strangerland is an average, forgettable film, it has enough going for it that it will keep your attention and it moves at a decent pace, but the characters are nothing to write home about, the performances are nothing special either, and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand what's going on or what happened in the end.

NetJon The story moves very slowly.The characters are irritating, but not in a way that gets us somewhere.The overall plot is not in any fashion fulfilling.Someone said that the cinematography and the acting were good.Whatever.There needs to be a story worth watching as well.This lacks that.Who knows. If you have some other motive that wanting an interesting story for watching this maybe you'll like it.I didn't.My recommendation: watch something else.