The Tourist (2022)

Watchseries; The only dark skinned people in the Australian outback are not local indigenous? WTF????

This is really dreadful. Jamie Dornan must be wondering why on earth he agreed to do this drivel. The characters are all one-dimensional and it's really hard to give a s*^t about any of them. Zero chemistry, zero talent, zero story. Every Aussie ocker cliché under the sun, though.

The only dark skinned people in the Australian outback are not local indigenous? WTF????

This is really dreadful. Jamie Dornan must be wondering why on earth he agreed to do this drivel. The characters are all one-dimensional and it's really hard to give a s*^t about any of them. Zero chemistry, zero talent, zero story. Every Aussie ocker cliché under the sun, though.

The Tourist watchseries. Oh dear. This shockingly fourth-rate production aspires to be an outback thriller with a comic bent. But before the humour even has a chance to fall flat - which it soon does - the plot collapses under the combined weight of rolling implausibility and cliches by the bucket load. In the opening sequence a car is pursued along a highway, then off-road across the desert by a massive road train, which somehow both out-runs and outmanoeuvres the car. It defies all automotive logic. The police subsequently find a camera near the scene of the crash, yet no sign of how the crash occurred. Really?! No sign of the road train's tyre tracks metres from the over-turned car? No sign of the several kilometres of tyre tracks from the high-speed pursuit?! Amazing. The investigating cop later declares he's from the "Burnt Ridge Police Force", which tells us only that the writers did zero research into how police forces in Australia are organised. Meanwhile, a funny-fat probationary cop tosses off northern-english colloquialisms like "any road...", an expression that no Australian-born person has ever used. Later, it transpires that the local police have heard nothing about the bomb explosion at the cafe in a nearby town - an event that, if it occurred anywhere in outback Australia, would be about as momentous as 9/11. And all of this in the first episode. Suffice to say, I will not be bothering with the second. It's hard to believe this tosh is actually a BBC/HBO co-production. Or that either company feels okay about producing a series in which almost every Australian character is there to be the butt of various dimwitted local yokel jokes. The three stars are for Jamie Dornan, who clearly needs to get a better agent.

This started well and the first couple if episodes drew me in, but by fifth it had me completely lost and really wanted it to be over. I don't know why films and TV series insist on having endless flashbacks / dream sequences / hallcinations, but its always irritating and a lazy attempt to make them seem cleverer than they actually are. This could have been a decent 2 hour film if all the needless scenes had been cut.

Starts off with an obvious rip off of Spielberg's Duel, inches into the realm of the unbelievable very quickly and stays there. After 50 years you'd think filmmakers would improve on that very basic concept but it falls spectacularly short. Good photography but poorly realised. It's badly written from the get go. Dialogue, scenarios and staging.

One unrealistic set of circumstances after another. Half Australia, Half American cliches. I was waiting for the tumbleweeds to go trundling down the road.

Cardboard characters. Woke BBC style casting. If casting black actors in the outback at least make them indigenous. (The doctor and the waitress). Oh they're dark skinned, nobody will notice. Insulting.

Characters talking over each other which was a new thing in film about 25 years ago but now it's also a cliche "Oh yeah. Yes, of course yeah.. no, I meant, yeah.. okay.'

Atrocious dialogue such as 'I thought he was two sausages short of a full breakfast.' Seriously, nobody talks like that. This was worse than some Chips Rafferty drovers fest from the 50's. I was waiting for Skippy to jump in and give him some advice. 'What was that Skip? Some bad people are after us? Better call the police hey Skip. Pity we only got the chick from Fargo.'

Dornan is a good actor so it's hard to comprehend why he would do this series other than perhaps he wanted to visit the Outback for himself. Plus they threw heaps of money at him. He surely must have seen that the script was woeful, unless he too believes that Australians really talk and act this way. Plus those fair dinkum Aussie sheilas aren't too bad on the eye, hey mate!

If you want to see a good Australian film set in the Outback watch Wake In Fright, Walkabout or Mystery Road. All far superior to this crud.

Or Steven Spielberg's Duel, Mad Max or even Road Games for some genuine action. Revisit Crocodile Dundee or Wolf Creek. Anything but this. Even Skippy!

Stars only for the photography and some locations, when it isn't dressed up to look like the American West. Good production value (they had money), inept, derivative, immature, inaccurate, ineffectual script.

This is uglier than a bunch of fair dinkum hungry redbacks havin' a pissup under a dunny seat and just as stinky.

Ok as an Australian I am slightly embarrassed for international people to watch this as it isn't a true representation of Australia or Australians. But I'm hoping everyone realised this.

Apart from that, one of the main characters was quite annoying but everyone else was good and the acting was great. I laughed a fair bit and I enjoyed the more gory scenes too.

It's an easy watch, becomes very silly but it's a dark comedy so I'm not going to take the plot too seriously. I just wish the characters would have a shower once in awhile... All in all I'd give it a 6/10 and will probably watch season two if there is one.

The missing memory thing has been done to death already, surely people are tired of this false sense of creating drama. The actions are just terrible.

The scenes are just patched together with bad actors and extremely poor writing. The incompetent police force just sets me over the edge and somehow makes the dude with no memory the most intelligent detective in the show. Unreal.