Review of The Square

The Square (2008)
5/10
Rather lifeless multi-strand thriller with most of the characters in the service of the plot
10 July 2008
After about a minute into this plotty thriller, the male lead looks like he knows he's doomed. He continues to look like he knows he's doomed until the end, just after a rather silly shoot-out, which made several audience members snigger. I wanted to enjoy this Aussie movie, but I wasn't at all interested in the mostly two-dimensional characters, whom I felt, were being pushed along by a slightly heavy-handed plot, which did little to illuminate them further, or tell us anything interesting. Well, there were a couple of thrills, and some nice little mysteries and tension, but there was also a lot of predictable TV plodding and some casting of hams who are throwback to the 1970s. There is a very nice tense scene between Anthony Hayes and Damon Herriman, who acquit themselves particularly well; whereas some of the actors could have benefited from a more dramatically imaginative directorial hand. Generally: it's all competent, but just not very interesting
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