Waste of time

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

"Noise" is proof positive you don't need a big budget to make a compelling story with remarkably good production values and fine acting. I don't usually, but in this case I viewed the background "extras" available on the DVD and was impressed by how much the company did with how meager resources. The result is a credit to them. The acting is top-notch, but as others have said the plot is disjointed, doesn't always make sense, and has some loose ends. The script clearly had a hatchet taken to it.There is also some implausibility and irrelevance, such as why the boss would be angry at him for being sick and what is the importance of the tinnitus after all. Even laid-back Ozzie police officers must cringe at the protagonist receiving hearsay testimony in the trailer without so much as taking positive identification from the people who visit, and the idea of leaving a single officer alone in a location where he/she is vulnerable to assault ... and worse, as we eventually see.All the faults not withstanding, this is a film worth paying attention to, with good directing and some taut moments that are pretty compelling. The budget was undoubtedly less than the stipend a mediocre Hollywood star would command, so it is a job well done. Finally, the DVD lacks any subtitles, and some of the "Strine" dialect and accent is hard to get the first or even second time around.

Unbelievable characters, in a story so bad I literally threw away the DVD. It was certainly not worth owning this movie. The cops in this movie are portrayed as nasty and abusive on the train, incompetent when dealing with the girl who was in shock. An officer who can't hear is put in a position of minding the store by himself? When he does intervene in trying to saving a handicapped boy's life the DCI is more concerned about the cop not staying with the caravan, than the ease at which anyone could get the witness' home address from the police station.Bad,Bad story.

For me, this was the best Australian film since "Lantana" ... no, I'll revise that and say it's better than "Lantana". The script was brilliantly written, with believable dialogue and characterization, and yet with an eerie, unsettling tension and mystery about it. The acting was very good all round, and in the case of Brendan Cowell, superb. I loved the music score and the moody photography. One of the most outstanding features of this most unusual film was the outstanding sound design. The scene where Brendan Cowell's character tries to drown out the ringing in his ears by making a variety of loud noises is uniquely effective in it's use of sound as an element of a film. You never quite know where this film is going, but when you get there, it's devastating. This film does on a minuscule budget what many big-budget Hollywood blockbusters could never do ... it touches your heart and it makes you use your brain.

I thought this was really an excellent movie. It was well-written, acted and directed. There was real drama going on here, and you really felt for both the cop who may have a brain tumor and the young girl finding herself in the middle of a bloodbath. While it was a "small" film in the sense that it contained no "stars" and it was clearly shot on a modest budget, I could easily see it being remade into a large, big budget Hollywood production. My sense, though, is that it would lose much of the intimacy and emotional power if such a translation were to occur.It does, by the way, have my favorite curse I have heard in years: "f*ck knuckle."