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Tracker (2010)

Director: Ian Sharp

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A ropey foreign accent has been the downfall of many a fine actor, and so it proves with Ray Winstone as he tries to tackle the speech of the Boer in this forgettable period yarn. He is Arjan Van Diemen, an Afrikaans farmer turned hunter who travels, inexplicably, to New Zealand, where he must chase down a Maori sailor (Temuera Morrison) wrongly accused of murder. So these two ageing warriors pursue one another and bonds of outsiderhood inevitably form. What should have been the highlight of the film – the gruff repartee between two mighty thesps – is undercut by the fact that Morrison’s character is built on noble savage clichés, while Winstone sounds like Eugene Terreblanche doing a Michael Caine impression. As always with New Zealand, the landscapes are terrific. Shame about the film.

Author: Tom Huddleston

Time Out London Issue 2123: 28 – 4 May, 2011

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Ges said...

Posted on Dec 29 2011 17:17 Dissapointed. From the start one could see that this was a low budget job with a half dozen cast. Silly plot, daft dialogue most of the time. apart from the great scenery, was mostly boring and pointless. As for the innocent party having to run off in the end, and the guilty party go unpunished ? No satisfactoty ending really, and the bit about cutting off the trigger finger was daft as it was out of context with what the Tracker was saying it meant all through the Film. Tosh from end to end so give it a miss.

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