Stars: Sam Worthington, Phoebe Tonkin, Gilbert Bradman, Edward Carmody, Matt Nable | Written and Directed by Matt Nable
Transfusion opens somewhere in the Middle East as an Australian special forces unit infiltrates an enemy bunker. The mission is going according to plan until suddenly it isn’t and Ryan Logan takes a bullet in the neck. Back in Australia, tragedy strikes again when his wife Justine, pregnant with what would have been their second child, is killed in a car accident leaving him to raise their son Billy alone.
Jumping forward seven years Billy (Edward Carmody) is now sixteen and has had as many brushes with the law as his father has had jobs since leaving the Army. Facing the prospect of losing custody of Billy he moves them back to his hometown, hoping to turn things around.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t help matters, and, needing money for his son, Ryan...
Transfusion opens somewhere in the Middle East as an Australian special forces unit infiltrates an enemy bunker. The mission is going according to plan until suddenly it isn’t and Ryan Logan takes a bullet in the neck. Back in Australia, tragedy strikes again when his wife Justine, pregnant with what would have been their second child, is killed in a car accident leaving him to raise their son Billy alone.
Jumping forward seven years Billy (Edward Carmody) is now sixteen and has had as many brushes with the law as his father has had jobs since leaving the Army. Facing the prospect of losing custody of Billy he moves them back to his hometown, hoping to turn things around.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t help matters, and, needing money for his son, Ryan...
- 2/6/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Decent acting from Sam Worthington and Phoebe Tonkin can’t save this moody action flick from a lacklustre script, which contains no surprises
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Sam Worthington spends lots of time looking intensely glum in Transfusion, matching the tone of the writer/director Matt Nable’s quietly moody action-drama. You can’t blame the guy: not long ago Worthington was swimming in shimmering oceans on a picturesque planet populated by lanky smurfs. Now, in this sombre Stan original film, Worthington plays Ryan Logan, a former sniper for the Australian Army who is struggling to adjust to normal society. He starts selling wine he knows nothing about before getting in over his head, entangled in a narrative reminiscent of a Liam Neeson B-thriller.
The film’s first scene establishes Ryan’s backstory: a mission in Iraq injured him both physically and psychologically. The second provides some...
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Sam Worthington spends lots of time looking intensely glum in Transfusion, matching the tone of the writer/director Matt Nable’s quietly moody action-drama. You can’t blame the guy: not long ago Worthington was swimming in shimmering oceans on a picturesque planet populated by lanky smurfs. Now, in this sombre Stan original film, Worthington plays Ryan Logan, a former sniper for the Australian Army who is struggling to adjust to normal society. He starts selling wine he knows nothing about before getting in over his head, entangled in a narrative reminiscent of a Liam Neeson B-thriller.
The film’s first scene establishes Ryan’s backstory: a mission in Iraq injured him both physically and psychologically. The second provides some...
- 1/19/2023
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
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