Lone Wolf

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Lone Wolf

Released Sep 24, 2021

1h 39m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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8 Reviews

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It's not exactly what the Minister of Justice wants to be doing: watching an endless stream of video footage. But a former police officer is very insistent. Together, all this footage -- from hidden cameras, phone taps, Skype sessions and security surveillance -- can tell an interesting story. The focus here is on an obscure bookstore where a group of environmental activists are meeting in secret. Idealistic Winnie and her boyfriend Conrad want to disrupt the G20, but aren't aware that they are possibly being lured into a trap.

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Wendy Ide

Screen International

A deliberately unpolished political thriller and a novel spin on the found footage approach.

Feb 3, 2021

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Carmen Paddock

TAKE ONE Magazine

The cuts between surveillance and home video documentation and a more traditional style in the framing story do much of the satisfying “detective work” for the audience... However, as seedy genre entertainment, LONE WOLF hits the mark

Nov 30, 2023

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Erin Free

FILMINK (Australia)

… a keenly intelligent and deeply complex emotional thriller that will spark conversations aplenty.

Rated: 18/20

Mar 9, 2023

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Rachael Mead

InDaily

Keeping the audience at a distance, making us watch powerlessly as Winnie is swept towards tragedy, Ogilvie’s writing and direction do more than simply spin this film towards a devastating climax...

Feb 17, 2023

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Kat Halstead

Common Sense Media

It's a film of style over substance, which offers an eventual payoff (however predictable) for those willing to see it through, but drags its feet longer than necessary in the process.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 22, 2021

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Chris Mello

In Review Online

Lone Wolf stumbles early and often, ultimately revealing itself to be little more than a rote thriller, and an inert one at that.

Jun 6, 2021

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jan J

dull, boring and extremely disappointing!

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/01/23

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Lone Wolf (2021) is an Australian found footage film. Advertised as near future thriller....it is not either of those things, it is a collection of security and home camera footage shops (mostly of a book store) that tell the very slow tale of a crime gone wrong. The plot and characters are too simple to engross the viewer, coupled with the cheap look of the film it will likely bore most viewers. Hugo Weaving Appears only in brief segments in the movie (maybe 5 minutes worth) that serve mostly as the framing device for the "footage". Found footage movies only work in horror movies (and to a lesser extent documentaries). In this one, it just makes the film seem like a failed experiment by a film student. 1 1/2 stars out of 5. Not to be confused with the other Lone Wolf (2021) about a "furry" axe murdering people.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Jonathan Ogilvie

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Tilda Cobham-Hervey

Winnie

Josh McConville

Conrad

Chris Bunton

Stevie

Diana Glenn

Kylie

Marlon Williams

Ossipon

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Synopsis

It's not exactly what the Minister of Justice wants to be doing: watching an endless stream of video footage. But a former police officer is very insistent. Together, all this footage -- from hidden cameras, phone taps, Skype sessions and security surveillance -- can tell an interesting story. The focus here is on an obscure bookstore where a group of environmental activists are meeting in secret. Idealistic Winnie and her boyfriend Conrad want to disrupt the G20, but aren't aware that they are possibly being lured into a trap.

Director: Jonathan Ogilvie
Producer: Mat Govoni, Adam White
Screenwriter: Jonathan Ogilvie
Distributor: Gravitas Ventures
Production Co: Future Pictures
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 24, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 24, 2021
Runtime: 1h 39m

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