#CUT SNAKE POMMIE AND CHRIS SERIES#

It’s a shame that this film doesn’t deliver on its early promise. New released prisoner Jim Pommie Stewart (Sullivan Stapleton) is all muscle and tattoos, played with an impressively predatory glint in the eyes, who’s desperate to be re-united with his former prison mate Mirv Sparra Farrell (Alex Russell). The excellent 70s production design from Josephine Ford and her team vividly captures a period that for many of us is within living memory, but also sets the story in what feels like a more dangerous time when the absence of CCTV, mobile phones and computer analysis enables acts of violence and mayhem the like of those perpetrated by Pommie to occur without the level of surveillance and tracking that we’re used to today. Sadly, though, the depth of character found in Pommie doesn’t extend to the rest of the of the cast and, in the latter stages the subtler elements give way to a more familiar cops-and-robbers style of pursuit by a very archetypal pair of thuggish detectives and the inevitable highly charged shootout. It’s the strongest element of a film that, for a good part of its story, is engaging and unsettling. He has found honest work and becomes engaged, but the joys of his new life are challenged when his dreaded and charismatic cell mate Pommie hunts him down. Here, though, he finds a vulnerability to the character of Pommie that elevates him beyond the two dimensional, stock standard fare of the charming but psychotic and violent crim that often populates these kinds of films. Cut Snake Set in Melbourne in the mid-1970s, 'Cut Snake' tells the tale of Sparra Farrell, an ex-convict who is trying to make a new life for himself. But his new life is challenged when his foreboding and charismatic former cell mate arrives in town.

#CUT SNAKE POMMIE AND CHRIS SERIES#

Most notable in this small cast is Stapleton who, with the exception of his role in 2010’s Animal Kingdom is probably more familiar to audiences in high testosterone action driven roles such as 300:Rise of an Empire or the television series Strikeback. 1h 34m IMDb RATING 5.9 /10 1.4K YOUR RATING Rate Play trailer 2:00 2 Videos 9 Photos Thriller An ex-convict is trying to make a new life for himself in a new city. Nevertheless a little of the sensibility of those earlier films seeps into some of the more interesting character relationships that lie beneath the crime elements of this dark story, even if that doesn’t sustain the film all the way to the end. Synopsis Cut Snake is a tense, psychologically driven crime thriller in which one man discovers his biggest enemy to putting the past behind him may be only himself.

The gritty crime drama is somewhat of a departure for director, Tony Ayres, who is better known for films like Walking on Water (2002) and The Home Song Stories (2010). But far from being a happy reunion, the reappearance begins to reveal the secrets that ‘Sparra’, as Pommie calls him, has been hiding from is fiancé and threatens to destroy his hopes for happiness and a new life. Cut Snake Synopsis: In the mid 70s, dream boyfriend Merv Farrell (Alex Russell) is all set to marry his sweetheart, Paula (Jessica de Gouw) when he’s visited by Pommie (Sullivan Stapleton), an old mate recently released from prison.

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