"Ned Kelly"

"Ned Kelly" is the Australian film about, surprise, surprise, Ned Kelly, an Australian outlaw that is roughly the equivalent of the American Billy the Kid. The movie itself is a sort of poor-man's version of "The Assassination of Jessie James by the Coward Robert Ford." All the things that made that movie amazing, were the same things that made "Ned Kelly" good. Heath Ledger as the title character and Orlando Bloom as his fellow outlaw Joe Byrne gave extremely solid acting performances. The cinematography was beautiful, aided by the beautiful country of Australia. The story itself wasn't original, but the beginning of the film was extremely calm and poignant, then decided to take a stereotypical turn shortly after Ned became an outlaw. Luckily the last thirty minutes or so had a very strong end to the story. Special note should be made about the music that was quite fitting to the emotions of the movie. Overall, I really liked this movie, and would have probably really, really liked it, had I not seen the superior film concerning Jessie James. Though, Brad Pitt never had a beard like Heath Ledger did in this movie. I may or may be slightly jealous.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0277941/