For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Don't listen to the negative reviews

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

I enjoy a movie where the narrative is not spelt out in big gestures, and I can be satisfied with a movie that does not explain itself. I enjoyed this movie very much, but my 'reading' of it seems quite different to the general opinion. Spoiler alert: Did anyone else wonder why the Constable was standing in a railway station looking dazed and confused in the opening scenes. Is his sudden onset of tinnitus a defence mechanism against some act that he himself may have perpetrated? Why do we see him at home, spinning the barrels of his revolver and sniffing to check if his gun has been fired recently. What is his rumination about the true nature of heaven and hell telling us about his sense of guilt and regret? Why does the character we are led to believe is the killer seek him out and goad him? Are we in fact witnessing a face to face between two killers- one self evident and aware, one with a total black out of memory, presenting as a nagging and inescapable somatic expression. Have another look at it with this perspective and see if it rings true.

This was one of those films that, at least initially, inspired me to reach for the eject button in frustration.The main reason for this was the obtuse characters :the Sergeant/boss, the detective, the girlfriend etc. The near victim and witness to a multiple homicide is treated in a manner that was just ridiculous - her rights ignored, no support or sensitivity exhibited by the police this was one of those stupid films that just frustrates from start to finish... it got better.The photography is expressive: particularly when capturing the flickering, decaying, night-lit scenes of Melbourne.The sound is interesting but I wasn't really sure that the protagonist was even someone whose experiences we were supposed to privilege when the soundscape became filled with his tinnitus' ringing... This was a film that could have had many interesting characters but I felt it failed on some human level to empathize with its' subjects. A lone cop (he acts more like a security guard) minding a community outreach "office" in a low rent suburb might have invited all manner of intersecting lives and interesting stories.... Unfortunately this wasn't THAT kind of film, emotionally stark and ending with a rather heavy- handed closure that was unfortunate.I'd rather it had ended ambiguously (and risked further frustration) than force a redemption or closure upon us. Leave it at that - and make your own mind up.

I started to watch this on Netflix, saw that the movie was not the usual run of the mill formula genre that is so often the only choice available. I had a hard time understanding the spoken words so I stopped and ordered a hard copy from Netflix so I would have have sub-titles.I received my disk and there was no sub-titles for any language including English. Not even for the hearing impaired.Therefore I had to watch the rest of the movie trying to understand Australian gutter English combined with the characters on the main mumbling their lines.I think anyone who rates this movie high must be from Australia where they understand the dialects.Try the movie and see if you can understand the language. I gave up.

I was trying to remember where I had seen Brendan Cowel, sometime ago! Tonight he was in our "Sixty Minutes" Sunday program and I knew this guy had been something special to me. So hit IMDb, and there I soon spotted "NOISE"! I went to all the reviews to see mine as I was sure I wrote one. But there you are I did not, or if I did it's not there. I did like this movie so much that I can't believe I did not reviewed it, well there are plenty of other things I have to live with although they're not what I want them to be either! Back to Noise - I thought it was a fascinating piece of work. You have to let yourself go and enjoy the ride and you find yourself riding with this guy. A very unusual ride that looks like everybody's eventual boring life with it ups and downs till something suddenly rocks the boredom in the most unexpected way. And you're on the middle of it and the high and the low get higher and lower. Please don't take notice of those who did not get it, even if you may not get it yourself. Take the risk be open.... Oh I wish that Yankee did not toss his DVD in the rubbish bin, I would have paid the postage and even would have added an Aussie pie for him to let me have it! But you can't please everybody all the time! Could not rate it because there was no "15" in the rating drop down list - go and see it.