this film be terrible . i be really look forward to it and a i think lantana be great . the following review may contain spoilersfirst and the good thing represent it look great and some of the performance be ok. the bad thing be everything else about it . the story and a you possibly know and be about some bloke who go fishing and discover a body and with the twist that they find it on friday but continue fish and finally report it on sunday when they get back into mobile ( cell phone ) range . however the film take it time ( boy do it take it time ) get to this central event . of the ensemble of character ( about a dozen ) and not one seem to like another one ( which be and i suppose and consistent and because they be all unlikable ) . i be extremely frustrate by the failure to adequately explain how the character be relate and and it be not until near the end of the movie that i could vaguely construct the family tree . it hard to think of a film u unrelentingly grim and which be a failure in the structure of the story and a the character live seem just a bad before the fishing trip a after . once you have set the bar so high and it hard to up it short of everyone commit suicide . there be silly lapse in logic . the killer dump the body in the lake and and then it somehow drifts mile upstream into the mountain . the fisherman walk out sunday morning and but for some reason byrne get home late at night after his wife have go to bed . then first thing the next morning the cop bang on the door to get him to come down to the station . um and they haven not hear of the telephone . down at the station and the medium know the whole story and less than 24 hour after they report the body . totally miss from the story be the debate the bloke surely have after they find the body . this be a mystery everyone ask them how could you do that . and the audience be ask the same question . ( the debate about what to do with the body be the key scene in deliverance ) . i know exactly what i would do in their situation . someone need to walk out to the car and drive to mobile range and call the cop and wait and and them guide them back to the location . if the others wait at camp and fish and who care . a lot of all this just seem false . the only thing that rung true be that and a the girl be black and the local aboriginal seize on the fishermen action a racist wouldn not have do it if it be a white girl . throughout there be a curious indifference to who might have kill the girl ( i think the subject be mention once ) and and there be no mystery and a the audience see the killer in the opening scene . so i be sit there simultaneously bore and confuse and when there a twist not in the plot and but the theme . suddenly it become about the quiet dignity of the bereave aboriginal lead to a ludicrous end with some incoherent stuff about black white reconciliation . huh . this be australian film at it fine and accord to the age .