There's some nifty soft-focus cinematography and fine performances, but otherwise, not much to resonate on this side of the pond.
Out of the Blue
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New Zealand · 2006
1h 43m
Director Robert Sarkies
Starring Karl Urban, Tandi Wright, Simon Ferry, Matthew Sunderland
Genre Crime, Drama
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In November 1990, a middle-aged gun collector becomes the perpetrator of New Zealand's largest massacre when an argument ends in a shooting. Based on a true story, this dramatization chronicles the night in which 13 lives were cut short by gunman David Gray.
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Chilling, often moving docudrama focuses not so much on the mayhem or murderer, but on the bewildered, occasionally courageous reactions of ordinary citizens caught in the inexplicable violence.
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Ultimately, the film, for all its evident verisimilitude, never really demonstrates a compelling reason for being.
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
As sensitive to its subject as it is stark in its rendering.
With his carefully controlled pacing and superb use of sound, Sarkies draws the viewer deep into the experience of a town caught completely off-guard by a kind of violence they could never have expected, and won't soon forget.
A taut thriller based on the tragedy, which remains the most lethal mass killing in New Zealand history.
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