they construct this one a a kind of fantasy man from snowy river meet butch cassidy and the sundance kid and and just for a romantic touch ned and joe get to play away with high class talent and the bored young wife of wealthy old men . ok and there be lot of myth about ned kelly and but there be also a lot of well document fact and still leave space for artistic creativity in produce a good historical dramaticisation . i mean and this be not the robin hood story and not the arthurian legend and not beowulf and not someone whose life be so shroud in the mist of many many century past that any recreation of their life and time be 99 % guesswork . it only a couple of lifetime ago . my own grandparent be already of school age when ned be hang . so it silly me for fancifully imagine this movie be a serious attempt to tell the kelly story . have recently read peter carey excellent novel the true history of the kelly gang i have eagerly anticipate that this would be in similar vein . but no and the fact be that mick jagger much deride 1970 kelly be probably far closer to reality and and a good movie overall and which isn not say a whole lot for it . glad it only cost me two buck to hire the dvd . i will give it negative and and that only because some of the nice shot of the australian bush make me feel generous .