Good movie but grossly overrated

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Those who lusted after Alex Dimitriades masturbating in 'Head On' may be interested in another adaptation of a Christos Tsiolkas novel, 'Dead Europe' - and they'd be disappointed, at least if they're watching it purely for the totty value. Once again it's set in the Greek community of Australia, as a self-obsessed photographer takes his father's ashes back to Greece. Once there he finds himself haunted by a mysterious boy and gradually uncovers a mystery involving his father's activities during World War Two. It's not a bad story - I'd watch the film again - but there's no-one particularly attractive in it, neither physically nor emotionally (I'm not *that* shallow!)

First and foremost, the Greek Tourist Authority (if such a body exists) needs to buy up and destroy every copy of this stodgy moussaka of a movie. It depicts Greece as a giant sh**-hole, populated by demented, ugly, bigoted and frequently dangerous maniacs. Though, to be fair, all the characters in this movie are unpleasant, including our "hero". As Isaac (Ewan Leslie in a tediously one-note performance) moves on, we're treated to the ugliest depiction of Paris ever on film, followed by a similar trashing of Budapest. The point of Isaac's quest is never entirely clear, though it may also be that by the time he finally connects with his brother and is told "the truth" about his father, I'd long since stopped caring. Quite how something like this gets funded is a mystery. Maybe the book it's based on has some worth (I'll never read it now). Maybe it just ticks all the right multi-cultural boxes. Whatever, it reflects well on no-one.

I saw this last night at the Melbourne Film Festival and had to be on my best behavior because the cast and crew were sitting directly behind me.I haven't read the book this is based on so I can't comment on it's adaptation but I did walk away thinking that this 84 minute film was about 10 minutes too long.Plenty of arty farty pretentious scenes that just had no need to be there IMO.None of the characters have been fleshed out - a glaring weakness by the writer and the lead, Leslie, delivered a frustratingly one note performance. There is only so many times one can deliver the 'F' word in a performance.There apparently is a very interesting story about people's pasts in the book - but this sadly didn't come across in the film.A very disappointing film.

This film was a big disappointing treatment of the book of the same title. Dead Europe was a bleak, dense novel, almost hallucinogenic, but quite compelling. You were never quite sure whether to believe any of it, or where it's narrative was taking you (including some unpleasant areas of life). I guess I had hoped that the film might make some things clearer. However the film over-simplified the narrative, making it harder for the viewer to link the episodes, as well as robbing the characters of their motivations. One central episode of how the Jewish refugee, Elias, was betrayed and left to die by the protagonist's father (thereby originating the inherited curse) was merely told rather than shown. Perhaps the film's budget ran out? I have no complaint about the filming or acting.