Exactly how I imagined it would be...

Rating: 4/10 (15 April 2015)

I went to see this based upon my feeling that somehow a Russell Crowe- directed film would lift the typical Australian melodrama out of the boring, ocker-centric, shallow-universe drudgery it's so famous for.
Well, it didn't do that, sadly, and appears to be a very transparent attempt to appeal to a wide swath of vacant minded yahoos--easily-entertained action junkies and weepy romantics using all the cheap tricks you can think of to get there. . Sorry--no dice, but, I did find some of the Turkish acting to be genuine and uniquely refreshing--but not enough to pull the movie up to any quality standard. No way is this a "10"--far from it.
Kudos for giving some film crews a salary though. A very generous "4".