The Last Ride
23 June 2009
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THE LAST RIDE
4 stars
A poetic and powerful film, The Last Ride has ex-con Kev (Hugo Weaving) take his 10-year-old son Chook (Tom Russell) on the road into remote South Australia.
We don’t know why they are on the run, but we know it can’t be good.
Breaking and entering, stealing cars and cash, they push further and further into the desert as they become more desperate.
Weaving shows what a consummate actor he is and manages to infuse Kev’s alternately raging and tender character with emotional depth and complexity.
Tom Russell as Chook holds his own against the international star and delivers a flinty unsentimental portrait of a boy who loves his father but who must ultimately betray him in order to survive.
It’s taken six years for Glendyn Ivin to bring this adaptation of the prize winning novel by Denise Young to the screen and it’s well worth the wait.
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