those who know who know the kelly legend and be hop that this film would be an accurate depiction of his life may be disappoint with the creative license take with this film ( eg . naomi watt character never exist in reality ) and but if you look at it purely a a piece of entertainment and it hold up pretty well . ledger performance in the title role be quite solid and take the mantle of cinema best ned ( not hard consider the previous ned include yahoo serious and mick jagger and former carlton champion ( australian rule football ) bob chitty and a great footballer but a poor actor . some location shoot film in the area i live and bacchus marsh outside melbourne as well a clunes and ballarat .