Romper Stomper Movie Download

8 / 10

“We came to wreck everything and ruin your life!”
Seeing Russell Crowe’s name in the cast, I thought it might have been a throw away role for him in a picture like this. However he’s surprisingly good as an Australian neo-Nazi skinhead leading his band of thugs against any and all Vietnamese immigrants in violation of his protected territory. His whole gang snaps when the local Railway Hotel owner sells his business and saloon to the Asians, and the story results in an escalating series of retaliations of one ethnic group against the other. The story is not for the squeamish, as there’s violence galore, though surprisingly little blood for the kind of brutality you get to see on screen. There’s a twisted subtext going on with the presence of Aussie girl ‘Gabe’ (Jacqueline McKenzie), who’s relationship with her father carries a subtle but sordid past, which helps explain how she’s deviated from the right side of the tracks to join the skinhead bunch. The picture is punctuated by a riveting musical score right from the outset, and it’s a tough picture to avert your eyes from once it gets going, violence notwithstanding. No happy endings here, as relationships are shattered and lives are casually dismissed as irrelevant in a culture that has little value for human life.Read More