In the interest of promoting peace and love between the United States and Australia and so that one day, the members of our two nations may come together and join hands like brothers as we officially christen the land down under as the 52nd state (behind Canada), I ask only one question regarding your nation's Best Picture Award for this film: WERE YOU ON CRACK?

For God's sake, this film has all the originality of a Milli Vanilli concert. Two violence-prone young people get into some trouble and spend a few days on the run from the cops while meeting up with the oddball people of Western Australia. Naturally, everybody is an oddball in this film, which is really the only way to carry a movie that hasn't bothered to include a story.

The two young people are Nikki (Frances O'Connor) and Al (Matt Day), and they get in trouble after Nikki meets a slimy lawyer who croaks while she and Al are trying to rob him. They end up with a videotape of former rugby player Zipper Doyle (Barry Langrishe) playing "fill the eclair" with some nine-year-old boy, so not only do they have the cops after them but Zipper as well.

To supplement his weak, clichéd story, director Bill Bennett utilizes the jump cut, which is the cinematic version of record scratching. It's like watching a movie afflicted with a nervous tick. Perhaps if Bennett offered free crack to the audience at the start of the film (as he apparently did to the Australian Academy), this lame movie would make a modicum of sense.