Review of Red Hill

Red Hill (2010)
1/10
Waste of time ...
20 November 2010
Warning: Spoilers
I don't expect everything to be realistic in a movie but if there are tons of scenes which don't make any sense at all, it gets extremely boring.

1) The bad guy and our "hero" are targeting each other with rifles and both don't shoot until the good guy falls off the cliff without breaking a single bone.

2) Main opponent is messing around with the jukebox and then taking his time to load his shotgun but the grandpa hiding behind him was probably too old to remember how to pull his rifle's trigger where he had lots of time on his hands.

3) The bad guy is about to get sniped but for some reason he manages to turn around in the right moment and actually kill the sniper with a clean shot using his normal gun from a long distance. I guess he could smell him hidden on the roof at night..

4) Another scene where one of the locals who hits the bad guy with his car shoots like six times at him without hitting. He was standing maybe 2-3 meters away from him. Come on ...

I could go on pointing out more silly scenes which range from the sheriff punching a wounded policeman instead of trying to help him to some black panther popping up out of nowhere and dragging off a dead guy.

Speaking of the "badass" sheriff.. he is being introduced as some tough alpha male yelling at everyone and giving out orders but once he faces the criminal, he doesn't hesitate a second to run away like a sissy.

Also I was surprised that Shane Cooper didn't seem to care much about his pregnant wife until the end of the movie. He is standing in front of her, half dead, looking like one of those zombies from Romero's movies covered with blood and telling her that it's just a scratch. Obviously his wife believes him..

Last but not least, 68 minutes into the movie, one of the main characters asks the sheriff "What the hell is going on here?". Something I have been asking myself from the moment on where this aborigine guy popped up in the news on TV and started to kill most of the armed locals.
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