Review of Animal Kingdom (2010) by Dougie H — 12 Mar 2011

Hard to properly comment on this one except to say: if the whole movie was as good as the last half hour, this would have been TERRIFIC. It bills itself as a crime movie, but it's really slow going for the first 75 minutes - more of a family drama where the family is made of total loser criminals.

At the center is the young protagonist who has been adopted by his grandma into this criminal family - but he seems to be sleepwalking through the movie. Yeah, I know - it's the way the character is written, but it's still boring.

I think that the writer had this great idea about having this kid caught between the world of the cops and of his family, wrote that half hour... and then wrote 75 minutes of back story leading up to it.