Let's Get Skase

October. 18,2001      
Rating:
4.9
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Christopher Skase. He ruled Australia and stole a fortune, fleeing to the coast of Spain. No one could touch him. No one could stop him. Until Peter Dellasandro and a small force of men swore they'd bring him down.

Lachy Hulme as  Peter Dellasandro
Alex Dimitriades as  Danny D'Amato Jr.
Craig McLachlan as  Eric Carney
Bill Kerr as  Mitchell Vendieks
Helen Buday as  Judith Turner

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Reviews

VeteranLight
2001/10/18

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

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Platicsco
2001/10/19

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

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Matialth
2001/10/20

Good concept, poorly executed.

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Dana
2001/10/21

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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thepaper_009
2001/10/22

What a fantastic film!Lachy Hulme stars in this wonderfully silly movie about the chase for Christopher Skase, an Australian business man with an ignominious past.Great one-liners fill this film that has it all, except it could have done with some T&A, but there is enough action to satisfy.Had to wait for DVD to see it and love the comments by the director/co-writer, Matthew George and co-writer, Hulme.Get a copy, it rocks!

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brown170
2001/10/23

How did I miss this at the movies?This is one of the funniest movies I have seen in ages. Who is Lachy Hulme? Hilarious. And Craig MacLachlan - I wanted to kill him - he is a sick human being. Brilliant.Thankfully I own this on DVD because it is a great movie that I have now watched maybe a dozen times.A cult classic.

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aw7890
2001/10/24

not the kind of comedy that I would normally go out and see, but I was surprised at how this movie worked. there were some really funny moments, some excellent action and a fantastic satire of older, American movies - or was it just taking the p**s out of itself? Regardless, I think that this is the kind of movie you can watch over and over again. Can't wait to see more of director Matthew George's work. And Lachy Hulme, he is excellent. So too the supporting cast. A great movie.

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kurt120
2001/10/25

In the last 10 years the only Australian comedy which really appears to have hit the mark is The Castle. Let's Get Skase attempts to tap into the Working Dog humour that has made the former D-Gen/ Late Show creators so successful - but fails dismally.Australian comedy, once the backbone of our movie industry, appears to be plumbing a dry well at the moment. Let's Get Skase joins The Wog Boy and the disastrous Reckless Kelly among recent Oz films that provide you with one laugh for every half hour that it lasts. The problem is probably further reflected by the dearth of quality sitcoms on Australian telly at the moment. Sadly the best Oz sitcom of recent times is Hey Dad, a show that has been off the air for around seven years now and wasn't even all that funny. Greed was good in the 1980s and Christopher Skase lived by Gordon Gecko's creed, accruing wealth through his company Qintrex and then deserting the investors when the going got tough, heading to Spain.This film focuses on the Australian public's outrage at his low act and the doomed attempts by the Australian public to bring him back.Failing restauranteur Peter Dellasandro (co-writer Lachy Hulme) stars as the man destined to free hundreds of mum and dad investors from the debt yoke of Qintrex by bringing Our Man in Majorca back to face the music. Strangely the creditors are happy to ask a con man to retrieve a con man. Hulme's dress sense and facial hair should be condemned - he looks like Don Johnson in Miami Vice. The usually commendable Alex Dimitriadis also features, suffering at the hand of a dud script, while his co-stars (a cast of nobodies), to be very basic, suck. Let's Get Skase is like a beginner's archery class with most of the jokes missing the target. In the end Christopher Skase has the last laugh. He died several months before this audio visual obscenity was released, plunging Let's Get Skase into further mediocrity. For me, the best part of the film was the footage of Malcolm Blight booting that long distance goal to steal victory for North Melbourne in a football match in the late 1970s. The moment acts as inspiration for our head Skase chaser but makes the rest of us wish we were watching something near as exciting. Weekly recommended rental: The Castle (1997). Starring Bill Caton, Stephen Curry, Anne Tenney, Eric Bana, 'Bud' Tingwell and Sophie Lee. Just to remind you that Australian movies can be funny.

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