Gettin' Square (2003)

Wonderful Movie

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This was a decent Aussie comedy-crime caper. Granted it takes a bit to get going but is worth watch for a young Sam Worthington and a knock out performance from David Wenham as 'Spit' the lovable, mullet spouting drug addict. Friends in prison, both men are paroled around the same time and determined to put the past behind them and stay straight.Spit struggles with heroin, noisy flip-flops and a lack of pants while 'Barry' gets a job at the Texas Rose, a restaurant owned by another ex-con trying to go straight as a family man and lose some unwanted pounds -played by the excellent Timothy Spall.All three men are being targeted by a local crime boss, a shifty accountant and a corrupt detective and get pulled into that one last heist. There's a bit of a love story between Worthington and his parole officer, lots of twists, some good laughs (mostly during the courtroom scene) and a fantastic soundtrack. 10/19/16

So here I am, an Aussie in Thailand, watching a cable TV channel from Macau and on comes this movie "Gettin Square" made in 2003 in the area I used to live in for 28 years and written by one of my customers who used to frequent a retail shop I worked in right where it was filmed, Surfers paradise /Southport, Queensland, Aust and I didn't even know about anything this movie until tonight in 2014… and its really quite good.It's a caper movie with a good storyline, some funny moments, and very true to life Aussie "ocker" accents and speech patterns. It's not really over the top like some people say it is, there are people especially in this region that it was filmed in that talk and act like this,called "bogans" Overseas,none Aussie, audiences may find the accents a bit hard to understand and perhaps the Americans would like to make their 'own version' of it to dumb it down eg: the office, Kath and Kim etc but it's so different from the predictable , seen it all before a 1000 times movie by numbers, that seem to be spreading like a disease these days out of Hollywood.Check it out, it's a good laugh with some actors that went on to make big names for themselves post 2003

Without a shadow of a doubt one of the best caper movie from Oz in a while.Sure the plot may not be 100% original but it has enough twists and turns to make it zip along and a script that is blue enough to turn Granny's hair white, but somehow it all works.There's a strong balance between believable drama and very good comedy that makes this very easy to watch.Excellent performances by all involved, great entertainment, the court scene may be one of the best comedy scenes in Australian Film history (seriously) with its' perfectly incomprehensible dialogue, and overall Getting Squared it one to really enjoy and deserves to be seen.Great Viewing!

Look - this is not a great film. It doesn't take you anywhere you haven't been before, it is pure entertainment and nothing more. There's no intellectual challenge, there's no emotional connection - this is not an important film.That said, David Wenham's 'Spitz' is just so damn funny!And that's what this film is for. It's an entertaining couple of hours. It's not the saviour of the Australian film industry but it does have a place. Sometimes we just need to kick back, switch off and have a good laugh.Gettin' Square is funny, light entertainment. It's just your standard heist flick bordering on The Castle style suburban kitch but it does still stand up on it's own - just. Perhaps because we are strongly suspect that 'Spitz' actually does exist (even if we don't know him)... and please, Sam Worthington is so hot!