646f9e108c After a botched bank job, a gang takes hostage a Japanese girl on the run from an arranged marriage, and escapes. Their wheel man saves the girl from them and the two go on the run with cops, the gang and her psycho husband on their tail. &quot;Heaven&#39;s Burning&quot; tells the story of a man and a woman who are inexplicably thrown together, amid violence and chaos. They quickly find themselves on the run from many adversaries, but find time to fall in love along the way. This couldn&#39;t have been a serious action flick, surely? I was cacking myself all the way through it and so was the entire audience - the shoot-em up scene at the end was the funniest, boy did it have &#39;em rolling in the aisle! A complete cack from go to whoa. Leave it to the Ockers to make a modern day film noir with a female heroine. Almost all film noir have a male hero, but here we have a recently married young woman (Youki Kudoh) who gets kidnapped at a bank, and thus begins her entre into a world of crime, betrayal, death and destruction. As in all good film noir, there is a motley crew of bad guys, including a deranged husband (Ken Isomura) and a Greek criminal family. And instead of a femme fatale we have the male fatale, played by Russell Crowe who avoids his usual heavy handed acting to be more subdued, even while he is dispatching the bad guys. And of course, we have double crosses galore.<br/><br/>Soon enough the film becomes a road trip with a host of interesting side- trips including an accordion playing drunk and a lonely rancher who takes polaroid pictures of himself to be sure he&#39;s still alive.<br/><br/>You haven&#39;t seen anything like this before. There are shades of &quot;Thelma and Louise&quot;well &quot;Bonnie and Clyde&quot; but that doesn&#39;t encapsulate the full nature of this film. Photography and music are terrific, and the feel of Australia is realized.<br/><br/>(Personally I would have ended the film about 30 seconds before they end it, cutting the very final scene in the car).
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