Synopsis
Set against the badlands of Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels — an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits immortalised for terrorising their oppressors back in Ireland. Fuelled by the unfair arrest of his mother, Kelly recruits a wild bunch of warriors to plot one of the most audacious attacks of anarchy and rebellion the country has ever seen.
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Cast
- George MacKayNed Kelly
- Nicholas HoultSgt. Fitzpatrick
- Essie DavisEllen Kelly
- Russell CroweHarry Power
- Charlie HunnamSergeant O'Neil
- Orlando SchwerdtYoung Ned Kelly
- Earl CaveDan Kelly
- Sean KeenanJoe Byrne
- Thomasin McKenzieMary Hearn
- Rory CollinsMary's Baby Boy
Recommendations
- 100
Variety
Lithe and volatile and recklessly stylized to the hilt, True History of the Kelly Gang has moves like Jagger, but a head still teeming with language and history. - 100
Variety
Lithe and volatile and recklessly stylized to the hilt, True History of the Kelly Gang has moves like Jagger, but a head still teeming with language and history. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
The Robin Hood-like renegade hero of the Antipodean common man, Ned Kelly gets a ripping reinvention in director Justin Kurzel's feverish punk Western, a raw rebel yell of a movie that combines visceral violence with a kind of delirious, scrappy poetry. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
The Robin Hood-like renegade hero of the Antipodean common man, Ned Kelly gets a ripping reinvention in director Justin Kurzel's feverish punk Western, a raw rebel yell of a movie that combines visceral violence with a kind of delirious, scrappy poetry. - 85
TheWrap
There is a terrible majesty to the landscape and to the story, and Kurzel gives it room to breathe. - 85
TheWrap
There is a terrible majesty to the landscape and to the story, and Kurzel gives it room to breathe. - 83
The A.V. Club
It’s refreshing to discover that True History has an actual perspective on the events of Ned’s formative years. - 83
The Playlist
Kurzel’s prismatic view of Kelly’s life and times goes to gnarlier and more vivid places than superficially similar period pieces.
