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Description
An extraordinary movie about an extraordinary man, the highly acclaimed and award winning Chopper is the boldest and grittiest Australian film in decades.
Brimming with dangerous excitement and stunning innovation, the sensational debut from rock video director Andrew Dominik is an exhilarating sharp shock to the system revealing the no-holds barred story of the notorious Oz criminal 'Chopper' Read.
Told in flashback as Read serves one of his many prison sentences, this extreme biography charts the brutal carnage and wicked sense of humour of a man who allegedly committed nineteen vicious murders and got away with with it.
Mixing startling facts from his nine best selling books, including 'How to shoot friends and influence people', with stylish pulp fiction to paint an astonishing portrait of a larger than life legend.
Chopper Review
"Chopper" tells the life story of Mark 'Chopper' Read, a vicious, psychopathic and slightly absurd failed gangster who nevertheless became Australia's most notorious criminal and one of its bestselling authors. The film begins in the stark blue and white cage of Pentridge Prison where the young Chopper hacks off his own ears to get out of H division, the maximum security section where his life is in danger.
Eight years later, he's released, with an explosion of cinematic colour into an outside world that frankly finds him a man out of time. We then follow him on an insane crime spree in which he shoots local Mafioso boss Neville Bartos and ends up in a shoot out in a car park.
What elevates Dominik's film above the recent spate of gangster pics is not only its constant cinematic invention, but the brutal, frank and entirely unsensational way the whole story is told and how compelling the telling makes it. Eric Bana's portrayal of Chopper does not shy away from the complexities of a man who is one part buffoon, one part terrifyingly dangerous madman and one part charming raconteur. "Chopper" may be one of the greatest crime movies ever shot.
4 stars (Thumbs Up!)
Special Features
- Trailer
- Animated Main Cast and Crew Filmographies
- Audio Commentary by Director Andrew Dominik
- Audio Commentary by Mark 'Chopper' Read
- Video Interview With Mark 'Chopper' Read
- Deleted Scenes
- Animated Menus
- Scene Access
Technical Details
Actors Eric Bana ; Simon Lyndon ; Vince Colosimo ; David Field ; Daniel
Wyllie ; Bill Young ; Kenny Graham ; Kate Beahan ; Renee Brack ; Gregory Pitt
Director Andrew Dominik
Certificate 18 years and over
Year 2000
Screen Widescreen 16:9 Anamorphic
Languages English - Dolby Digital (5.1)
Additional Languages Dolby Digital (2.0) Stereo: English
Subtitles None listed
Duration 1 hour and 30 minutes (approx)
Genre: Thriller
Certificate: 18 Suitable for 18 years and over. Not for sale to persons under age 18, by placing an order for this product you are declaring that you are 18 years or over.
Director: Andrew Dominik
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