It’s
a bit of a double-edged sword seeing Australian names in mainstream cinema:
Sometimes you get James Wan, director of The Conjuring as well as the original
Saw; and sometimes you get Baz Luhrman, director of Moulin Rouge and Australia,
among other pieces of aggravating drivel. I love seeing this great (at times) country
I live in being represented in Hollywood, but it doesn’t always yield the best
results. With today’s film, we have Stuart Beattie as writer/director who’s had
a very murky track record of late, having been a co-writer on G.I. Joe: The
Rise Of Cobra, the aforementioned Australia as well as a re-writer on Punisher:
War Zone. Let's see how well he does here.
