Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

tokisamauri As far as Australian cinema goes, there are occasional highs and monumental lows. The Rage In Placid Lake, for me, represents one of the most outstanding offerings in recent years.In the way that the Rocky Horror Picture Show is better than the films it parodies, Placid Lake turns the tacky and outdated genre of 'teen movie' into a refreshing anti-rebellion piece that sends its message through excellent acting (Ben Lee & Rose Byrne) and well chosen dialogue.If Rock Hudson and Doris Day experimented with hormones and hemp, The Rage in Placid Lake could be a possible outcome.

Chad Shiira Aussie singer-songwriter Ben Lee makes an auspicious acting debut in Tony McNamara's "The Rage in Placid Lake", a satirical comedy-drama that could easily be construed as Australia's answer to "Ferris Bueller's Day-Off", or "Say Anything". Placid(Lee) has a benevolent anti-authoritarian streak that's akin to Bueller's, and his partner-in-crime, Gemma(Rose Byrne), is beautiful and brainy like Diana Court in the Cameron Crowe-directed classic(incidentally, Lee is engaged to Ione Skye), who hides her obvious feminine wiles behind a pair of unflattering black, horn-rimmed glasses.In the opening scene, "The Rage in Placid Lake" establishes the pair as outsiders, people who won't join the party; quite literally, since both Placid and Gemma would rather watch television in an adjoining room than drink and be merry like the other high school graduate revelers. Their friendship is put to the test when Placid undergoes a metamorphosis while immobilized in a full-body cast. His newfound conformity with social norms(get a job) compels Gemma to make a life-affirming decision(have sex) as a way of keeping pace with her best, and perhaps, only friend. By the film's end, the pair of fringe-dwellers are happily headed towards a different sort of symbiotic relationship."The Rage in Placid Lake" has a lot to say about being raised by hippies. It sucks. Unlike Tim Hunter's "River's Edge", in which a sour former-flower child asks her son(Keanu Reeves) if he stole her weed, Placid's parents are lovable potheads; just a pair of eccentric free-spirits who'd encourage their only child to wear a dress to school. This grave parental miscalculation of judgment undoubtedly is the genesis of Placid's rage. Nobody cries in "The Rage in Placid Lake"; it's not that kind of movie, instead the filmmaker utilizes quirkiness instead of overripe melodrama. Placid is a very unhappy, young man. In an earlier scene, rather than shoot a gun, he shoots film, as a weapon against his parents Doug(Garry MacDonald) and Sylvia(Miranda Richardson), and the students and faculty at his prep school."The Rage in Placid Lake" should have received a wider release in the States because this Australian import is a deceptively slack, but effective(albeit roundabout)satire about school shootings and their alienated trigger-men. It has none of the sanctimony that plagued the well-meaning, but ultimately didactic domestic indie "American Gun". "The Rage in Placid Lake gives its audience room to breathe; the movie's oblique treatment of this international epidemic never overstates itself with pontificating speeches, or authorial gestures. This somewhat meandering, low-wattage dramedy is a "what if?" movie. What if the shooter survived and turned his life around?

rachid2000 Iam a big fan of foreign movies but this one really was just bad. The acting was very poor especially the main character. The movie is not funny and most jokes are just copied of Hollywood movies. Save yourself2 hours and $3.99. It doesn't matter how much you try to get out of the movie at the end there was not much to get out of it. The jokes were mainly lame and the character was so dull and unfunny. The movie was not very original and the acting could have definitely been improved. There are lot of good Aussie movies out there but this is not one of them. The story line was very hollywoodish without life and at the end you wished you had followed you instinct and turn it off right at the beginning

JimPearson Don't waste your time on this. Absolutely one of the worst movies ever. I got it from the local library under the misapprehension that it would a respectable movie. I didn't (couldn't) finish it , but that part of it which I did see was nothing more than a string of obscenities, nudity and sex with puerile humor thrown in to try to connect it all together. This movies did not appear to have a single redeeming feature. The cover said it was a "Film Movement" movie, which apparently is new, arts-type movies which are normally not shown in cinemas. If this is typical of the series then I know why. In future I will stay well away from them.