Rebel Reviews

1985

Rated:
50
from 55 members

While recoering from his WWII wounds in Australia, a young soldier debates whether to go AWOL and remain in Australia where he is quickly falling for a local girl. Read more

Starring	Matt Dillon, Debra Byrne, Bryan Brown, Bill Hunter
Director	Michael Jenkins
Genres	Action/Adventure, Thriller

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This wildly ill-conceived curiosity from Australia — apparently intended as a Cabaret meets From Here to Eternity romance — is an obscure must for Matt Dillon fans, although he seems understandably ill at ease in a musical drama set in the Second World War. Dillon's a troubled American GI who goes AWOL in Sydney and hides out with nightclub singer Debbie Byrne, who has a dance routine for every melodramatic development. Lots of flashy production numbers fail utterly to evoke the right era or further the scanty plot, but Australian stalwarts like Bryan Brown and Bill Hunter bolster the bizarre proceedings.
- Radio Times
- Posted 29 Jan 2006
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful

dissapointing

I watch as many films with an Australian connection as I can. Most of them have a good deal of merit. Sadly, I can't find a kind word for this one. It might just as well have been filmed entirely on set.
- - A customer from Chelmsford, Essex
  - Posted 16 May 2005 14:23
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Actually found the film a bit boring, only watched it because the wife said it was great.
- - Jim58 from Carrickfergus
  - Posted 09 Aug 2009 15:47

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful

dissapointing

I watch as many films with an Australian connection as I can. Most of them have a good deal of merit. Sadly, I can't find a kind word for this one. It might just as well have been filmed entirely on set.
- - A customer from Chelmsford, Essex
  - Posted 16 May 2005 14:23
* * * This review contains spoilers * * *ShowHide

Rebel

Actually found the film a bit boring, only watched it because the wife said it was great.
- - Jim58 from Carrickfergus
  - Posted 09 Aug 2009 15:47

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Critics' reviews
This wildly ill-conceived curiosity from Australia — apparently intended as a Cabaret meets From Here to Eternity romance — is an obscure must for Matt Dillon fans, although he seems understandably ill at ease in a musical drama set in the Second World War. Dillon's a troubled American GI who goes AWOL in Sydney and hides out with nightclub singer Debbie Byrne, who has a dance routine for every melodramatic development. Lots of flashy production numbers fail utterly to evoke the right era or further the scanty plot, but Australian stalwarts like Bryan Brown and Bill Hunter bolster the bizarre proceedings.
- Radio Times
- Posted 29 Jan 2006

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