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Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

**SPOILER ALERT** The Mule is not funny, it's not entertaining, it's neither engaging, nor well-written and as an audience member I was not interested in what happened to the main character. In fact about half-way through I was hoping it actually is possible for someone to die from not being able to pass stools. I'm not being gross here, that is what the movie is about, a drug Mule, trying not to pass stools, so that he won't get caught by the Australian Federal Police.The acting by the main character, Angus Sampson, is below par. And not even the extraordinary Hugo Weaving could lift this appalling script and it's scant premise from the gutter that it wallowed in.I know it's attempting to be a black comedy, but it lacked both the finesse and comedic characters or dialog to ever be either.With so many incredible stories coming out of Australia this film is an embarrassment to see out there in the world.Like the premise of this film the viewing experience of watching The Mule is like being made to swallow a steaming pile of excrement, again and again and again. Do yourself a favor, watch ANYTHING else instead.

Unconventional? Check. Compelling? Double-check. Outstanding ensemble cast? Triple-check. I began this with great hesitation, but once I started watching, I couldn't stop. You've got to be thinking (at least I hope you are), do I really want to watch a film about a guy attempting to avoid evacuating his bowels for a brutally extended period of time? Surprisingly, gross as this sounds (let's be honest), you really might want to.The acting is top drawer, the situation and characters are believable (supposedly it's based on a true story, although we all know how elastic "truth" is in the movies), there are lots of darkly humorous moments, and, all-in-all, it's just an odd, weird, and terrific low-key comedy-thriller. It jumps between brutal and funny, and it won't make you nearly as squeamish as you would expect. Is the sad-sack underdog really going to prevail? If you're a fan of "different" stuff like me, this drug run gone bad really should be on your short list.

Simple and to the point. It's about a man who is suspected of importing drugs, and the police need him to take a $h*t so they have evidence to prove their suspicions..they are allowed to take him to a hospital for an x ray, but decide to take him to a hotel and wait it out(until he takes a **** )....They can keep him for ten days. He's smuggling a known drug dealers heroin batch, and the drug dealer is out looking for him and his friend.The camera work is fantastic, the acting is great, and the dialog is catchy.. watch it, you wont regret it.

The Australian film The Mule was well-received in its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival. It is an entertaining, if not terribly memorable film, based on some version of supposedly true events from the 1980s. The kernel of truth appears to have been the case of a man arrested as a drug mule and retained in custody for an extended period of time during which he refused to defecate and thus expel the packets of heroin from inside his body. The comedic story that the writers concocted around these true events appears to be mostly fictional. The story moves along nicely and is told in an entertaining manner with a heavy dose of Aussie accents. The acting is reasonable with an expected level of grossness that this particular subject matter demands. The best part of the night, however, was when the writer and director appeared on stage after the film completely drunk and went off on ridiculous rants that ended with one-handed push-ups. Since they're Australians, I'm not sure that anyone was all that surprised.