Director – Greg Mclean
Writers – Greg Mclean, Aaron Sterns
Production Company – Duo Art Productions, Emu Creek Pictures
Writers – Greg Mclean, Aaron Sterns
Production Company – Duo Art Productions, Emu Creek Pictures
Stars – John Jarratt, Ryan Corr
I really love the original Wolf Creek, it’s simple, and its
sweaty hand inducing. You’re drawn into
the main characters lives before anything happens, you party and laugh with
them. I can still see them clearly in my
brain, because I actually liked them. Soon Mick rolls around and your enticed with his
witty behavior, though thoroughly put-off too.
Mick manages to make everyone a little uncomfortable, but then he reels
them back in with his quirky personality. Is he joking, is he serious?
You can’t piss him off, I mean you need his help…and then it all happens
once everyone settles in. That’s the
beauty of Wolf Creek, simple and to the point.
What Wolf Creek 2 does, is nothing like the original. Have you ever watched a monster movie, and
they show the monster so much that it no longer is scary to you? I used to get super angry when I would only
get glimpses into certain portions of a movie, crazy angry if I only got to see two seconds of the scary creature. Now,
here I am wishing that for Wolf Creek 2, they would have given Mick a little
less screen time. He became a messy caricature
of his former self – a one liner machine.
He's now a messy serial killer, I honestly didn’t know what his motivations where
anymore – until of course he gives an Australian pop-quiz to one of his victims - seriously dude?
Spoilers
Wolf Creek 2 is full of 3 things – one liners, car chases, and
people you don’t care about. I was
entertained for all of 15 minutes to be honest, and those were the first
15. Two bored cops pull Mick over, and
what ensued drew me right in. The two
cops are given about 75 outs not to give Mick a ticket. I really enjoyed how Mick was keeping his
serial killers ways at bay, he had to be thoroughly pushed before he gave in –
and give in he does. It was a nice
opening and there are pig/cop puns galore, some of them very funny. I should have known though, the jokes and one
liners flowed like a waterfall from here on out.
Mick meets up with some German backpackers, conveniently of
course, they’re hitchhiking across the outback.
You spend a little time with the couple before Mick makes his
appearance. The scenes between Mick and
this couple made me so angry! The female
backpacker is completely useless. At
least in the last movie the females were put through some hell before they
became unable to function. Here the girl
sits and watches Mick man handle her man.
I think I timed it and she had about 15 minutes for a head start on
Mick, I think she was entranced though – since they happen to show Mick cutting
off her boyfriend’s penis and waving it around in the air with his hand. The only thing I really have to say is “really?” Also, why the hell is Mick butchering her man
in the middle of the dessert – is he a cannibal now??
Once she finally does break away, she can’t even manage a
few words to help the poor sucker out who picks her up. Her screams are annoying and her lack of
normal human function is disappointing.
It’s even more disappointing that the main character, Paul, joins the
movie at like 40 minutes in. You know
absolutely nothing about him except that he’s nice enough to stop and try to
help a flailing traveler, from here on out its Paul and Micks prowess for
one-liners.
Paul manages plenty escapes throughout the movie, but at an
hour and forty seven minutes you do get a little meat, kangaroo meat to be exact. I actually covered my mouth to prevent myself
from laughing out loud during a chase scene that involves a herd of Kangaroo
crossing the road at a not so perfect time.
I mean, my 2 year old was napping next door – and I really was LAUGHING
OUT LOUD.. I am embarrassed that this is
part of the movie, this is not supposed to be a comedy. It’s just not what I expected or wanted. I want something with the tones of the
original dammit.
It only gets worse from here and the music is lousy. Only so many times can I take the sort of juxtaposition
of the scene versus the music. I love a
hardcore horror scene with music that seems it’s opposite sometimes, but every
damn kill scene should not be paired up this way..in my humble opinion.
Don’t even get me started on the Hostel scene and Micks
underground cave lair. Seriously did I
miss something? What happened to his
beat down farm full of old car parts, what is up with the cave system filled
with a hundred bodies? I don’t get it,
and I don’t like it. I know Mick is
nuts, and sick, and disturbed – but this seemed really out there. Don’t even get me started on Zombie girl, or
the 40 minute bonding scene shared between Paul and Mick.
But what I really don’t want you to get me started on is the
ending. I was already angry about the
main female character not being able to speak a single freaking word to help
her situation – but you’re also left with Paul, who ends up a permanent
resident in a mental home.
Dog Turds! I’m really
only a little bit angry because I think so fondly of the first movie. Mick is still sick as hell, and I would die
if I ever ran into him - because he really does scare me. I’m all in for Wolf Creek 3, ditch the thousand
one liner’s, get back to basics – Mick is still one crazy Aussie - he doesn’t
need some Hostel cave lair to be scary.
