Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Steineded How sad is this?

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

poe426 Solid cinematic storytelling, with a commendable performance by Mick Jagger. While the movie would've benefited a great deal from a soundtrack produced by The Rolling Stones themselves, NED KELLY isn't so much a "rock and roll" picture (except, perhaps, at heart) as it is a damning indictment of The Powers That Be (that WERE). It's gritty in that GREAT NORTHFIELD, MINNESOTA RAID-kind of way (which was likewise a tip of the hat to some of those "gray area" folk heroes, though the James and Younger brothers are generally acknowledged these days to have been outright outlaws) and, in its depiction(s), somewhat ahead of its time. (It may be hard for some people to believe, but there was a time when Good was good and Bad was bad and never the twain met- at least not on The Big Screen- not often, at any rate, especially in movies made in America-, and never EVER on American television.) With the housing crisis in this country in mind, NED KELLY just might be the kind of movie more people should seek out...

rextasy Only being passingly familiar with the story of Ned Kelly, I can say that, on a cinematic basis, this is a pretty good movie. The locations, cinematography and supporting actors are all grittily realistic, in the way that only '60s-'70s- era movies could be. Of course, that still leaves the woefully miscast Jagger. As the larger-than-life rough- hewn bushman Kelly, Mick doesn't come close to cutting it. As an actor, he doesn't cut it. The scene in which he fights off five gaol guards (with a hangover) is silly. And yeah, his beard's silly. The Waylon Jennings soundtrack (and, in response to a previous poster, this was before Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid) is interesting, but inappropriate.

kessingler This is a cult movie alright, although I'm pretty alone being a cultist here, this movie has all the elements of an ugly movie of the 70s (though i hear its huge in Australia).First of, trying to learn about Ned Kelly from watching this movie is just impossible, the story trail is as lose as the one in Dune and it jumps so fast from scene to scene that is unbelievable. In one scene a police officer swears not to tell the authorities that the he had an accident with the Kellys in which he was wounded, he was pretty happy and swearers not to tell, 1 second into the next scene Ma Kelly is standing for trial. What??, so he told them?, he what??. No one knows.the movie does those jump cuts a lot. and not only that, but you get to see some really weird scenes on the movie (such in the ending when both Kelly's brothers kill themselves in a rather artistic way). It all in the end gets explained if we consider that probably the entire cast and crew was on drugs, and not only them, but the caterers and the cleaning guys also.But that of course is not the main strenght of the movie, the main thing that this movie's got going-on is of course the horrible performance of Mick Jagger, who doesn't really act whatsoever if we consider it, but rather just stands around being the lead singer of the Rolling Stones than Ned Kelly.We get to see Mick: -as a drinker. -as a singer. -as a ladies man. -as a street fighting man.so we pretty much just see him being him, not one line is delivered correctly, but always as if Kelly was really angry because he ordered a latte and not a cappuccino or with a huge hangover from partying all night.The movie ends with Ned on his armor getting shot by the Brits, which is one of the memorable scenes of the movie, mainly because it actually seems to had been taken from a serious movie instead of a generic 70s movie.See this movie, its the funky version of Ned Kelly, but of course as all of them are Brits you just get to see a white cast. Kinda like the Stones music if we think about it.

atlian42 First off I wanna comment on the First User Comments diatribe on Mick Jaggers Australian Accent. If I am wrong please correct me but I believe in actuality the Real Ned Kelly's family was in fact 'Irish'.But like I said Correct me if I'm wrong.The story was decent. I think the Music in the film really made it great for me. I believe Shel Silverstein was the Writer of the tunes. I'm not sure but I think that the dude who sings the Dukes of Hazzard Theme is the guy who sang them.I don't know it may be a bit campy but I enjoy it every time as it is usually on the Satellite channel Encore every 3 or 4 months. I usually watch it, and like it.I think if you go at it with a blank slate its decent.Screw Heath Ledger man I wont even comment on his "Ned Kelly" movie. Nothing personal I just don't think he's a very good actor. I think Mick Jagger is in the words of Eric Cartman, 'Hella-cool'