Chopper (2000)

Recommended

Australia
Feature Film
Director: Andrew Dominik
Writers: Andrew Dominik, Mark Brandon Read
Cinematographers: Geoffrey Hall, Kevin Hayward
Composer: Mick Harvey
Cast: Eric Bana, Simon Lyndon, David Field, Dan Wyllie, Bill Young, Vince Colosimo, Kenny Graham, Kate Beahan, Serge Liistro

Eric Bana’s astonishing performance as the infamous, self-publicising criminal Mark “Chopper” Read, revealing the man to be a worryingly unstable, unpredictably violent, and yet strangely beguiling creature, drives this blackly comic (and fictionalised?) biopic, which proves to be as simultaneously alluring and repulsive as its larger-than-life protagonist. Iain.Stott