Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Prismark10 The Mule also known as The Smuggler is a nice, offbeat crime thriller with some black comedy.It is set in 1983 as as Australia II is making a robust challenge for the Americas Cup Competition.Nice but dim Ray (Angus Sampson) has been set up to have a trip to Thailand with his football team. In fact the club president who has a sideline in criminal activities plans to have Ray set up as a drugs mule. Ray swallows condoms full of heroine but is detained by the police when he returns to Australia.He is questioned by detectives. Tom Croft (Hugo Weaving) and Les Paris (Ewen Leslie) who play bad cop and good cop respectively. Croft roughs Ray up but Ray decides not to pass anything through his body much to the detectives displeasure. Also the local criminals are not happy and reckon Ray will grass them up.The film has a heavy dose of toilet humour as Ray tries to stop himself from defecating. For such as simple tale, the writers have packed quiet a lot of plot and deliver it with a crafty way.

Paul Evans Boy is this an unusual film, inspired by true life events.Melbourne 1983, we meet Ray Jenkins, a quiet chap very much still tied to his mother's apron. The film starts off with him detained by customs, set to undergo a physical examination, they're looking for crack (haha.) It skips back two weeks, shows how he was bullied into becoming a drugs mule. Very impressionable and malleable, Ray is sent out to Thailand with his team mates, pretty much for one sole reason. Refusing a medical Ray is detained in a hotel under house arrest, under constant Police watch, while they wait for him to pass the drugs naturally. He's ultimately held for 12 days, and all those around him have different interests in him being able to pass the evidence.This is such an unusual film, it definitely gets better as it goes on, it features some truly horrific scenes, the early, soft tone of the movie puts you off your guard, some of the scenes that follow are truly unexpected and unpleasant. Plenty of unexpected twists throughout. It's so satisfying on so many levels.There are elements of humour, to me they seem a little unnecessary, a little out of place, they didn't really need to be there, but the rest of the film is so watchable, credit to Angus Sampson, previously seen in Insidious he gave a brilliant, watchable performance.Ultimately very satisfying. 8/10

carbuff Unconventional? Check. Compelling? Double-check. Outstanding ensemble cast? Triple-check. I began this with great hesitation, but once I started watching, I couldn't stop. You've got to be thinking (at least I hope you are), do I really want to watch a film about a guy attempting to avoid evacuating his bowels for a brutally extended period of time? Surprisingly, gross as this sounds (let's be honest), you really might want to.The acting is top drawer, the situation and characters are believable (supposedly it's based on a true story, although we all know how elastic "truth" is in the movies), there are lots of darkly humorous moments, and, all-in-all, it's just an odd, weird, and terrific low-key comedy-thriller. It jumps between brutal and funny, and it won't make you nearly as squeamish as you would expect. Is the sad-sack underdog really going to prevail? If you're a fan of "different" stuff like me, this drug run gone bad really should be on your short list.

AudioFileZ This is one of those films purporting to be based on a true story, stating so before the film starts. This is usually a tip off that only a small percentage of what the viewer is about to see is actually true. Maybe it's a filter? As in if you're worried about the story being straightforward and literal you should adjust that in order to enjoy the ride? I'd say that's good advice because it's a dark comedy about an unwitting pawn being used who, in the end, emerges as the smartest man in the room. A good simple story that works on the screen more than it stumbles no matter what the truth/fictional quotient is.The central character, Ray, is a young man who is cast as an oafish backward type most definitely past the natural age of being so dependent and subservient to his mother. This is Ray. Ray's life has stalled in part due to him living at home under his mother's thumb. He truly loves his mum though he feels dominated. Ray works as a TV repairman in the last local TV fix-it shop owned by his step-father. His step-father, has, mostly, alienated himself to Ray also being on his last legs with Ray's mother due to his compulsive gambling and drinking. This is a setup for the local crime boss holding Ray's father's debt. He manipulates Ray, through an old football club friend with the step-father's blessing. Ray reluctantly, decides to be a one-time drug mule as he can then help his mother financially while asserting his independence simultaneously. So, a pretty standard tale of a "sad sack" 'neer-do-well, who perhaps (remember after seeing it I said "perhaps") slow on the up-take, gets used as a pawn for a drug smuggling outfit. For something standard the movie ends much more creative if not original. This Aussie production is definitely not Hollywood in scope, but scores a kind of independent cred as it feels slightly rough not wholly polished much for the good. What could be a boring story which, at times, plays slowly, in the end delivers good entertainment and closure.