Heaven's Burning

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Rodney W It’s a film that is right up the traditional visceral guts of other Aussie ditties like Kiss Or Kill, The Hard Word and Two Hands The caper is also supplemented by a good soundtrack during interminable car pursuit and gunplay. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/04/25 Full Review Terry M Solid, quirky film complete with quirky characters and plot twists... about ill-fated lovers against a backdrop of social baggage and fatalistic twists from their conventional lives. Australian southwest? dry, rural areas cinematically shot. Loved watching sensitive Crowe (always) and Kudoh's sweet relationship grow from nothing. ** Yah, clichés and stereotypes about foreigners abound e.g. Japanese men and women; Afghani thugs; incompetent cops... but equally as cliché-ridden are the cliché-ridden Aussies who embrace these stereotypical prejudices. The two lovers are the only characters who seem to regard people at face value. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 06/24/25 Full Review Laurie S Every now and again you get the privilege to see a real gem of a movie and this is it. The acting was great, the directing sublime and the simplistic story was top notch. More than well worth a watch. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/25/23 Full Review brendan n It's tough to remember a time when Russell Crowe was acting in Australian produced films. Heaven's Burning is a film that feels like a story beat for a Tarantino film, most likely True Romance. There is some good moments, but this is a mess of a film and lacks coherent storytelling. The film feels like it was designed for the Chinese financial assistance and while the fish out of water plot fails to capture anything resembling that plot thread, the actors deliver good performances. I thought this might be a guilty road trip forgotten due to the Australian film market not looking after it's own investments. Sadly it isn't a great film and feels like it is treading water until the forgettable finale. 24/03/2019 Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member What I've done is unforgivable. A desperate man in need of money joins two brothers as a driver for a bank robbery. The bank robbery goes very bad and the driver has to kill one of the brothers to save a hostage. The brothers work for their gangster father who sets out on a mission to kill the driver and collect the money from the bank robbery. The driver has the money and the hostage and goes on the run. "A hand for a hand plus interest." Craig Lahiff, director of Swerve, Fever, Black and White, Ebbtide, Strangers, and The Coming, delivers Heaven's Burning. The storyline for this picture is very cliché and straightforward. The action was okay but the rest of the film was fairly ordinary. The acting is not that great and includes Russell Crowe, Yuku Kudo, Ray Barrett, and Robert Mammone. "I understand this is your karma. I understand! I understand!" I came across this on Showtime Anytime and thought this looked like a surprise random Crowe picture worth a viewing. I generally enjoy these grindhouse like pictures but this was disappointing. This wasn't a complete waste of time but I wouldn't go too out of my way to see it. "He's the best driver I've ever seen." Grade: C Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Frances H An entertaining and unusual Aussie film, with a few funny moments. Definitely different. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 07/18/15 Full Review Read all reviews

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