ShangLuda
Admirable film.
Limerculer
A waste of 90 minutes of my life
Kimball
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Francene Odetta
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
Leftbanker
...Central casting committed some major errors. More on that later.A lot of people on IMDb moan that the show is nothing like the Australian film upon which it is based. I didn't care much for that film. I also think the series has more in common with Point Break.I think the casting sank it from the start. The two long-hair surfer brothers, Craig and Deran, just weren't tough enough to pull off their roles. They needed guys that can play hardcore criminals and these two are WAY too soft for the role. The way they portray them as such sissies affects the rest of the storyline. Who would be afraid of these doofuses? Baz and Pope are both about right and the young kid isn't bad. At least he isn't a liability.The little teenage girlfriend was simply atrocious, both as an actress as well as her appearance. She is just too dumpy for this role. This is one instance when they needed a super-hot seductress for the role. I wanted her to get killed off or go away from her first appearance. Of course, she is a Hollywood legacy and only got into the business because of her family. Ugh.Ellen Barkin was also a terrible choice. Too much facial surgery may have messed up her acting chops, but I never remembered her as being good at it. Just the ways she walks bugs me. I think the series also suffers from a lack of good characters outside of the family. The cops are all idiots and there isn't a strong character among any of them. So much unused potential.
follyfriday
Interesting. Except Ellen Barker ruins it over acting and calling "baby" in such a smarmy, slimes fashion. Yuck!
mgrady-62695
This past weeks episode. The guy on guy sexy scene was Nothing short of porn and totally disgusting. It is ridiculous to turn this show into this. You have LOST a devoted viewer.
thedrrjp
I should preface this by saying that I never saw the film on which this is based. I watched the trailer for the Season 3 premiere which made it seem like an action-packed tour de force. Instead it was a tour de farce of cardboard characters, stiff acting, forgettable dialogue and a script that made no sense.It dragged in the middle and I felt nothing for anyone in that dysfunctional family. Barkin's Smurf was the most disappointing given that she is an accomplished actress but she acted more like the blue cartoon character from where she got her name. The scary matriarch that they showed in the trailer looked like a scared mouse when talking to anyone other than a family member.TBS used to have good shows. This isn't one of them.
