Boring

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Family of criminals goes down the drain on a path of violence. Really that's all there's to it. "Animal Kingdom" is a barrage of violence upon violence. It is structured and acted in a way that makes it feel as if it were a true story, because the performances by the actors are so believable. I read the notes and it seems to be partly inspired by true events. The almost documentary approach in filming hightened this feeling of watching a "fly on the wall" documentary. All this realism made me react intenser to the characters than I would normally do.For example I really loathed the guy who was the head of the family, because of his inbread instinct to solve any problem with a killing spree. What he did was just plain repulsive killing for revenge and to silence witnesses to his crimes. No fun to watch. Fascinating nonetheless. Dont watch this if you like to see some heroic type of violence. The type of violence in "Animal Kingdom" is like a kick in your guts. Director David Michod has got a knick for making movies full of violence that make me feel depressed. Still it is a very good portrayal of what violence does: it breeds more violence. And for that quality and for the real life portrayal by the actors I highly recommend this picture. David Michod's films are the best antidote for the usual hollywood glorification of violence. 8 stars.

Some people think that if a crime film is slow, lacks so called action with lots of running, shooting and car chasing, that it has to be boring. It says more about these people's life and mind than about what makes a film good.In the brilliant crime drama Animal Kingdom there is some shooting, but nothing unnecessary or with very cruel pictures. There is no car chasing but there is some escape running, though we never follow any of the characters longer than needed. It's all there, intense, stunning and with blood. The story is clear, always balanced without any cliché, and when we as viewers enter into the character's lives, it mostly is normal and calm, just like most lives are, even if it's the one of a criminal. Then, there are the levels of individual moral standards, which we are diving into, but without making anything too obvious. There is always something unexpected behind. Never are too many words spoken, and when there is nothing to say, the scenes are guided by brilliant music, not pathetic at all.The story is brilliantly balanced, the dialogue is natural, and the acting is superb, so must the direction also have been, all the way. Animal Kingdom shows us what humans are. We are animals.

An unrelenting crime thriller/dysfunctional family drama with brilliant acting and a pace that never lets up. Jacki Weaver is the matriarch of a family of gangsters, one more hot headed than the next. Trouble doesn't so much follow them as it exudes FROM them. Writer/director David Michôd shies away from nothing with this film. Weaver is astounding in the role that put her on the international map but the entire cast is excellent. This is likely the most demented brood since the Borgias. Joel Edgerton and Sullivan Stapleton are among Weaver's boys. Guy Pearce is the cop who'll do anything it takes to nail them. The stunning cinematography is by Adam Arkapaw. A great movie.

Everything that happens in this film is wrong. 1) The one good brother that wants to exit his family's life of crime is MURDERED by cops in a grocery store parking lot, which leads the other brothers to exact revenge on them. Now, if you're going to base a film on the investigation of these 2 cops' murders, you have to make me want to see the killers brought to justice. The motivation isn't there because you feel that the cops should've rightly been killed. 2)When the paranoid uncle sees the cops coming for him, he does the absolutely most illogical thing he could think of: grab his shotgun and run directly into a wide open field where he is subsequently shot and killed. All he had to do was nothing and he would've be aquitted of the crime just like his other 2 brothers. 3)The girlfriend goes to the lead's house and doesn't even confront the uncles about having the boy break up with her. Why the hell did you go over there then?!4) The lead runs from a cop who blatantly tries to kill him while in witness protection, and he doesn't go straight to Guy Pierce, the ONE GUY who wants to help him and tell him about it?5)While being transported to trial, a cop directly points his gun at the lead and dry fires it for NO REASON. I shouldn't have to go into why this shouldn't have happened. 6)The lead undermines the police's entire investigation to get his uncle's off, which makes you not care about him AT ALL anymore, or his scumbag family. He did it to murder his eldest uncle himself, and then embraces his grandmother lovingly who, for the previous 15 minutes, was trying her damnedest to have him killed. He also chose to spare his gay(?) uncle, who was also complicit in his girlfriend's murder! He just sat there and watched it happen!I really could go on but i'm nearing the 1k word limit and I think you get the point.I really wanted to enjoy this movie going in; it's competently shot, the actors are good (besides the dry performance by the lead), cinematically it is top notch. But everything that happens in it is wrong, and it infuriated me to the point where I had to write this review about it.