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Title: Razorback [Region 4] (2005) Starring: Gregory Harrison, Arkie Whiteley, Bill Kerr, Chris Haywood, and David Argue Director: Russell Mulcahy Rating: R (Restricted) Runtime: Not available minutes Avg. Score: 4 Submit Comment Hits: 27

Review of Razorback [Region 4]

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• Posted on 2008-01-28
  Classic Australian Film
  
  This is a classic Australian film and a great value DVD package as its full of extras including a 70 minute 2005 filmed documentary called Jaws on Trotters about the making of the film. It contains interviews with the producer, director, special effects guy (who made the pig), various actors and information on the few who aren't interviewed (unfortunately Arkie Whitely who played the hot research scientist passed away from cancer a few years earlier). What I liked about this documentary was that they were prepared to criticise their own movie and its bellow anticipated success in the marketplace.
  
  There's also the deleted grisly expanded killing scenes which were left out of the film when it first screened back in the 80's. They are sensational. As well, the original trailer is here along with quite a few other trailers of Australian movies of the same era which may be of huge benefit to those not in Australia who may not have otherwise heard of them.
  
  The basic plot of this movie is a giant razorback destroys a farmhouse taking a small boy away in its jaws. His grandfather is charged with his murder but let off due to lack of evidence. No one in the small rural outback town believes the pig exists except a beautiful research scientist who is studying the boars so both of these individuals pretty much live lives of isolation while trying to track down the beast. When an unpopular American journalist goes missing after her rape by Petfood factory workers that she is investigating is interrupted by a large beast her husband arrives from the US to find out what happened to her. He must survive the terror of the rapist brothers who don't want the truth of what they did to come out as well as the hairy bacon one in order to find out what did happen and avenge his wife.
  
  Score: 5
• Posted on 2005-07-25
  An outback Jaws
  
  A razorback is an especially nasty species of wild pig and this movie is about an unusually large (rhino size ) example of the bred which is running rampant in the Australian outback with predictably bloody results .
  It opens with a scene of grizzled outback veteran Jake Cullen -well palyed by Bill Kerr--minding his infant grandchild on his remote homestead when the unseen beast attacks and wounds him ,carrying the child away .He is arrested and put on trial for murder but exonerated and set free.From then on he devotes himself to tracking down the murderous beast .
  
  Then an American journalist (Judy Morris) is despatched to the outback to do a story on the wholesale slaughter of kangaroos in the region ;she falls victim to the razorback .Her husband (Gregory Harrison) rejects the officoial version of her death -namely that she fell down a mine shaft .He joins forces with Cullen and together thay set out to track down the beast
  
  The creature is seen only fleetingly but is quite impressive in the glimpses we do get .The script is pretty routine and the plot a tad over-familiar .It is however well photographed (by Dean Semler)wand makes good use of the outback location especially in a series of striking haze filtered back lit shots .It has style and atmosphere galore and looks good -but like director Russell Mulcahy's better known Highlander - its parts are better than the whole .Individually some scenes are striking but there is no real sense of a developed coherent forward moving narrative
  By no means a bad movie it would have benefitted from a tighter script and a more foreceful lead actor than Harrison who is a bit bland .One for the creature feature devotees on the board
  Score: 3
• Posted on 2005-06-10
  Another Awful , Horrible Movie From The Shores Of Australia!
  
  Australians DO seem to have a talent for making AWFUL movies and this one is no exception. It concerns a giant pig in the Australian Wilderness ( which is referred to by Austalians as 'The Outback") This movie doesn't evem make it s a Horror movie although I must say it is pretty horrible.We have the usual body count and the hunt is on for the killer pig. I give this movie 5 stars because I managed to catch up on some much needed sleep while it was on my TV screen.
  Score: 5
• Posted on 2005-03-13
  Not quite how I remembered it...
  
  ...but I probably will buy the DvD when it gets released. I'll make myself short; "Razorback" for its' time is more a one-of-a-kind-movie than it is a classic, if you know what I mean? BUT, it is original, different. And rather interesting, actually. Not many movies have been made about these animals, and just the idea of making a horror-movie called "Razorback" is rather brave. I mean; a giant killer-pig! And at times the movie is a bit scary. All thanks to the fabolous camera-work, the sound and "the Beast" itself.
  
  First time I saw "Razorback" I was 14 years old, and it really facinated me -and I never quite got it out of my mind. I find it strange that it is not yet released on DvD considering all the garbage out on the market today, it is a good movie. And I saw it on tv here the other day, and it was a "reunion" worth waiting for -though not quite the movie I remembered.
  Score: 3
• Posted on 2004-06-02
  Razorback
  
  The most accurate review of this movie was written by TV guide many years ago and I still remember it today.

  It stated,
  "The best movie ever made about a giant, man-eating pig."

  It's pretty good and it's pretty bad, but it's worth a taste if only to see if it appeals to yours. Now how about a widescreen DVD version so we can truly appreciate the films best point - its cinematography - without all those distracting pans and scans.
  Score: 3