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Rating: Null/10 (8 December 2000)

This film was one of the freshest Film's of the 1990's. The film sets up 5 underdogs against a backdrop of espionage, the crimal underworld and a $90m hit on a Trukish trawler. The casting is magnificent, can you imagine what would have happended if these guys were established stars, the film would have lost credibity, and clouded objective opinion. The dialogue is mixed and is underpinned by a wise-guy street mentality. The story is narrated after-the-fact by verbal kent. What amazes is the narration is sustatined to the very end, and the more unbelievable his story is, the more believable it is. It is testimony to the writers/directors of this film to take what is believed and ensured throughout the film and destroyed and reworked in the denouement. As is put so chillingly, "the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist", "and like that he's gone." 10/10