Synopsis
Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins' merry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity?
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Cast
- Russell CroweHando
- Daniel PollockDavey
- Jacqueline McKenzieGabe
- Alex ScottMartin
- Leigh RussellSonny Jim
- Dan WyllieCackles
- James McKennaBubs
- Eric MueckChamp
- Chris McLeanLuke
- Josephine KeenMegan
Recommendations
- 89
Austin Chronicle
It is violent, certainly, but it's also a genuinely excellent film, horrifying and touching and beautiful in a bloody sort of way. A bit like real life, really. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
As an expose of the new wave of racist youth-gang violence, Romper Stomper lacks depth, psychology, a sense of social background. Yet Wright’s flagrant attempt to humanize his skinheads-to turn them into bona fide movie characters-is, in its way, dramatic and vaguely honorable. - 75
Rolling Stone
Ron Hagen’s camera work captures the delirium of carnage that drives out rational thought. Ignore the prudes who think you shouldn’t make films about things that scare you. It’s a first line of defense. This Aussie Reservoir Dogs opens up a brutal world that needs to be understood. - 70
The New York Times
While enticing you to hate the gang and take delight in everything bad that happens to its members, the film also gives you the vicarious thrill of being one of the gang. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
A flawed though compelling eye-opener. - 60
Film Threat
When Romper is firing on all cylinders, it is potent indeed. - 50
Time Out
The cheap 'message' of the ending fails to salvage a film that at best is well-meant but misguided, at worst, flashy and garbled. - 50
Washington Post
It's merely another violent art house picture, slumming modishly in the world of psycho-personalities, and exhibiting only occasional flashes of originality.
