Australia

With a run time coming in at just under three hours long you would believe that Australia would be a sweeping epic with amazing detail to landscape and character driven storylines intertwining throughout the film. Sadly the film attempts to balance two very different storylines at once making the film a mixture of various genres but with a political message lingering sometimes at the forefront and sometimes in the background.  The film is entertaining enough to take the bite out of the long run time but not satisfying enough.