Saw Two Hands, an Australian gangster movie about a boxer/guy-who-stands-in-front-of-strip-clubs-and-shouts-at-men-to-look-at-the-beautiful-girls. He gets a starter position with the local mob to deliver some money but he loses the cash. So, the mob is after him, there's a girlfriend involved, other gangs, all the trimmings for a nice, knotty little gangster film. This film reminded me a lot of the film Go. Both have intricate, branching stories following different characters that weave around and into each other, both include little cute details and a Seinfeldian climax that neatly ties everything together.
It's a cute film. It's not particularly clever or spectacular but it's a solid piece of film making and consistently entertaining. There's some side-business with the ghost of the protagonist's brother which I felt never really went anywhere but it affords the film some neat opening sequence imagery and serves as one more thread to neatly tie up. It also has a lot of attractive people in it, which is nice. Not an amazing film but not bad either. A good film for people who don't really see many films. Fun, easygoing, not stupid or ugly, not challenging or subtle, just good.
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