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90The director has managed the difficult feat of making a nonlinear film that contains a handful of almost unbearably suspenseful sequences, each one undercut by bizarre black humor.
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80Bana, who appears in nearly every shot, talking all the while, gives a remarkably mercurial performance.
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80A most ambitious first film. Dominik pulls it off impressively, assisted by a selfless cast, a driving score by Mick Harvey, and gifted cameramen Kevin Hayward and Geoffrey Hall.
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80Mr. Bana's Chopper is so scarily convincing that he makes you feel the eruptive force of each mood swing and the way his character's paranoia, egomania and conscience- stricken apologies are part of a volatile emotional cycle.
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80Hilariously unhinged, but also desperate and confused.
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80Not everyone's cup of tea, but it's actually rather beautiful.
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75Eric Bana's performance suggests he will soon be leaving the comedy clubs of Australia and turning up as a Bond villain or a madman in a special-effects picture. He has a quality no acting school can teach and few actors can match: You cannot look away from him.
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75An impressionistic portrait of the seductive nature of evil.
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75Pulls no punches - blood flows very freely (including the ear-cutting scene) and black humor abounds.
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75Its dabs of dark comedy and stabs of gore, still rings with a sense of the real. It's electric-charged.
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75It's Eric Bana, a popular Australian stand-up comic, who justifies our interest with a dazzling performance of blunt humor, unpredictability and an edge of menace.
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75Too quick to uncritically and unthinkingly accept its subject's rollickingly self-mythologizing take on himself.
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Bloody, profane and compelling, Chopper marks an impressive debut for Dominik and a revelation of Bana's talent.
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70Grotesquely violent, horribly funny.
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70Dominik's stylistic choices are savvy, but what really makes the movie work is Bana's extraordinary performance as Chopper.
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63A point is being made about how a criminal creates his own myth, but the ways Read twists and embellishes the truth become progressively less interesting.
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63It's galling to see such a low-life canonized in a film, but it's also riveting drama.
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63There's an awful lot of kinetic energy to Chopper, and the violence is portrayed as graphically as imaginable.
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60This fictionalized, frequently stomach-churning biography of Australian criminal Mark Chopper Read features the most bloody ear-severing scene since "Reservoir Dogs."
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60Bana's performance is nothing short of electrifying.
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60It's a great style, it's a fabulous performance, but it never quite finds what it's searching for.
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60The connection between his boasting about killing and killing so he can boast about it -- is made beautifully insidious.
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50Much ado about very little because it takes no stand and gives little insight into the Chopper's psyche.
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42A movie overtly designed to win attention (and not to do much else).
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40Amibitiously mediocre.
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