Would it have killed them to take a little bit of the money they set aside for computer generated images to pay a writer or two for a decent script? With a magnificent country like Australia there must be an almost endless supply of great plot ideas. Instead, they created an inedible soup of clichés that proved to be a very unsatisfying meal. How about a little character development? For example, why was Fletcher such a one-dimensional bastard and why would the cattle baron's daughter, who seemed to be a decent human being (although if you blinked, you missed this entire plot point), ever marry him? The movie had no flow and seemed to be edited using a meat ax, and the less said about the acting the better, although I blame the director more than the actors. Australia certainly looked nice, but if you're going to name a film after an entire continent, you should try a little harder to make it a better movie.
