SUICIDAL KANGAROOS
I had been looking forward to Wolf Creek 2 since I heard about it. I really enjoyed the first film, so I was interested to see if it could be improved upon.
John Jarratt is back as the frightening , sarcastic and disarmingly friendly Mick Taylor. Mick is on a mission to rid the Australian Outback of foreign vermin as he calls tourists. God knows why British, German, and French tourists are so offensive to him but boy are they ever. The movie starts off with a bang literally when he blows the head off a cop who pulls him over and sets the other on fire. From there he finds a German couple camping in a National park. He proceeds to inform them there is no camping in this park and they must leave immediately. He offers to give them a ride to another location. Really just an invitation to be murdered. Since it is the middle of the night they politely decline. That’s not the answer Mick was hoping for and it propels him into an attack on the male of the couple. Once this guy is out of the way, Mick goes about preparing to rape his girlfriend.
I will stop here because there isn’t much mystery to the plot but there is plenty of suspense and gruesome murders. I really enjoyed this follow up to 2005’s Wolf Creek. Mick is a creepy and crafty villain and after nine years, I definitely missed him. He is sarcastic, clever, smarmy, unattractive, and physically filthy. He seems to drink a lot and not take showers as well so he likely stinks! (ED NOTE: Just your type!)
By comparison, this film has a bit more humor than the original. There is a truck/jeep chase scene which in the middle of it suddenly every single kangaroo in Australia decides to cross the road. These roos don’t seem to be paying much attention either or they are suicidal because many don’t make it. How they didn’t cause a fatal car accident is beyond me. It was a ludicrous scene but it got a giggle out of me!
Overall this was a successful sequel with an extra helping of guts and gore. Once again, the victims in this film are based on the real life victims of Ivan Milat. Ivan Milat kidnapped and murdered backpackers in Australia during the 90s. There is virtually no nudity in this film.
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