Would you Adam and Eve it? It's the first movie I've ever seen where Ray Winstone isn't talking Cockney.
The growler had to go all South African for his role in the unusual chase film Tracker.
And, to be fair, his accent wasn't bad at all.
English treasure Ray is a bit of an odd choice as a displaced Boer who is attempting to set up a new life in New Zealand after fighting the Brits in his homeland.
He's penniless so takes on the job of tracking a Maori who has been framed for a murder.
Eventually, he finds that he and his target (Temuera Morrison) have something in common - a loathing for the colonialists.
Winstone is pretty good as the hard-as-nails old Boer, while Morrison takes the angry, oppressed Maori role with gusto.
There is a bit of a problem with diction, however. We couldn't always clearly make out what either of them were saying.
Morrison also lapses into his native tongue quite often but, because subtitles are not employed, Mrs W and I were forced into a game of blankety-blank to work out what was going on (don't worry, we were at home, not in the cinema).
He also overdoes the whole haka thing. After the fifth appearance of his enormous flaying tongue I just wanted him to put it back into his gob.
Nevertheless, the was quite an engaging film, with the relationship between the protagonists and their reaction to the British intriguing.
Also, the wonderful backdrop of the mountains and waterfalls of New Zealand made the movie splendidly picturesque.
So, not a classic but one which certainly had enough merit to rate it at 6/10.
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