Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

VividSimon Simply Perfect

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

cwbellor Before Russell Crowe became a big old charming softy, he was a maniacal ticking time bomb ready to fight any defenseless kid who got in his way. And if you're an adolescent Vietnamese boy in Romper Stomper, you are most at risk. Crowe plays Hando, the head of a handful of Hedonistic Hellions in this Indie Aussie Flick. If you can ignore the deep irony of neo-Nazis in a country like Australia, you will probably find the plight of these white boys quite endearing. You see, after white settlers gently brushed Aboriginals aside to make room for a new colony, white Australians could rest assured that they found a nice dry arid place to set their bums. But watch out! Here come the Vietnamese and suddenly, young angry delinquents like Cackles, Bubs and Champ start to feel a little insecure about their majority status. Initially, things are going peachy for Hando and his hounds. They can bully immigrants, smash and grab, get sloshed and admire Nazi memorabilia. But then the perpetual targets of their hate decide that they are fed up with being sadistically victimized. They decide to attack Hando's heathens on their own turf and re-enact Australian history. Only this time, the Asians are playing the white settlers. After the skinnies get pwned by a friggin flash mob of angry Vietnamese, they are little more than refugees in their own depressing urban wasteland. All they can do to achieve a bit of levity after such a demoralizing defeat is force two men to kiss for a bit of impromptu entertainment. But gay-bashing just doesn't have the redemptive impact it used to have for these goons, and they are forced to sit and reflect on the error of their ways. But unfortunately, there's no mirrors in their souls. After squatting for a while in a garage, they decide it's time to get some revenge! But before they can launch their counter attack, they have to make a supply run. They burglarize the home of a pedophile prick all for the purpose of spreading the gospel. Witness Sonny say, "God sent us." It would appear, however, that the house master is a staunch atheist and doesn't appreciate the noble efforts of sinless Sonny, charitable Champ and benevolent Bubs. Hark the Hando angel sings! This film is a light-hearted romb & stomp from down under. It's a cautionary tale about the perils of neo-nazi love triangles.

Dan1863Sickles ROMPER STOMPER is much more than an early vehicle for Russell Crowe. It's a movie about racial violence, prejudice, and lives without hope. It's also full of great stomping fight scenes, amazing punk rock, and steaming hot sex. It never sentimentalizes the racist gangs, unlike GANGS OF NEW YORK. Instead it's violent, completely honest, and unbelievably disturbing. It's so ironic that this film features Russell Crowe as an absolutely repulsive villain, yet even here you can see the incredible star power and charisma that was to make him a global superstar in just a few years' time. As Hando, the Nazi Skinhead leader, he's cruel and heartless, yet you see exactly the same kind of strength, the silent aura of authority, that made him such a natural for hero parts down the road. Even when his gang is outnumbered hundreds to one the only thing you see on his face is stern determination and cold resolve. Now I want to talk for a minute about the film's tragic ending. Since this film is more than twenty years old, I don't consider this a *spoiler* but stop here if you don't want to hear about the final scene. Hando the skinhead leader dies horribly at the end. (Again, can that be a spoiler? Did you think the picture would end with Nazi skinheads taking over Australia?) But what lifts this movie above the run of the mill "message" picture is the nature of Hando's downfall. Instead of being killed in a street fight with Asians, he gets stabbed from behind by his best friend. What makes this image so powerful is that it defies expectations. Russell Crowe plays Hando as a man who is not afraid of death. He doesn't just want to fight the Asian immigrants; he wants to die fighting them. Alone among the gang, I think, he really understands that the fight is hopeless. Again, look at his eyes when they're trapped in the garage halfway through the picture, with hundreds of enemies banging on the door. This is the end Hando wants, and in an ironic sense, it is the end he deserves. The death he gets, stabbed by a fellow white man over a woman, is the ultimate humiliation. And there is irony, authentically tragic irony, in the fact that Davey is the only person Hando really loves, and that he is destroyed, not by his racism, but by his best mate. As he sinks beneath the waves with blood spurting from the severed artery in his neck, Russell Crowe keeps his eyes locked on the horizon, stoic and uncomplaining even in death.Talk about a real master and commander!

Korbin Schwertl You liked Heath Ledgers Joker, then you might also be scared shitless by Russel Crowes flawless performance as the main antagonist in this outstanding story about hate. I mean just look at him. Just the simple way he moves and stares at the others and his sudden rage attacks. Damn what a performance.The film itself is really enjoyable/entertaining. This film crosses many lines, with its realistic, harsh tone. It sucks you right into its atmosphere, which can be really depressing in some parts as it does its job so well. And thats good for a film like that. the only bad thing about ROMPER STOMPER is the kind of boring second half. Surely its not a bad second half, it just feels so empty, but well nothing is perfect.I wouldn't recommend this film for educational reasons. If you are a teacher and you wanna teach your students about racism you better stick with American History X as the moral seams to be a little bit more focused on the subject.But anyways, check it out.

PeterMitchell-506-564364 A truly original and inventive film, rated R for it's heavy use of violence that looks very real for a change. Incredibly on this video cover, the violence reference is not mentioned. Crowe's performance here was the one that catapulted him to stardom, where as far as I'm concerned, this is still his best performance here. It's a pity they don't have Oscar awards in Oz, cause he'd win it hands down, as Hando, the unrelenting leader of a pack of skinheads, their hate for asians, reaching beyond what anyone could fathom. We don't learn much about their reasons for disliking the Vietnamese, and that's a good thing, cause if more was said as to why, the film would lose it's substance and ferocity. Every performance in this movie is excellent. Daniel Pollock, John Brumpton, and Jacqueline Mckenzie, a desperate junkie and a victim of incest, (pity that bloody Deep Blue Sea, put a stale period on her career) are all flawless. More here so, is Mckenzie, so believable when having a seizure, even I got concerned, even though I knew it was just acting. From the word get go, this movie takes on a no holds barred ride into a nightmare territory of boundless hate. The skinheads, even question the barman, at their favorite watering hole as to why he lets gooks in there. Later on at the same bar, the barman goes off with an Asian guy, who's gonna take over the business, leaving his two sons to mind the place. How could this barman be so reckless. When learning of this, the skins can't get away fast enough and the two races go war to war. The skins, totally outnumbered, realizing they've overstepped their mark, flee, and take refuge in a warehouse, occupied by one of the skin's girl's ex's. The dialogue that transpires, between the girl conning her way back into this building, is actually a humorous relief, in the wake of the intense ten minute battle between the two races, that passed where some real nasty blood was shed, some of the most realistic use of blood, I've seen. I liked the direction this movie took from here. It almost made me take up using Campbell's sauce again. The sex scene with Crowe doing Mckenzie behind, both naked, was titilating too, almost necessary, putting a light, though not romantic moment to this film. Some of the potent dialogue, here too, is interesting. So is Crowe's extensive tattooed work on his back. I'm almost prepared to believe Crowe won't be able to surpass himself here with a better performance, than in this bold and confrontational film, that I can't believe I first saw over twenty years ago. The way the cops interacted with the skins, granting no mercy, when capturing them, sounded all so true, almost a replica of that exact same scene happening for real. The movie does lose a little of it's fizz near the end, when it comes down to our three players, one skin who doesn't walk away, the other hopefully walking away from all of this futile hate bulls..t for good.