Animal Kingdom -- Film Review

8:35 PM PDT 10/14/2010 by Kirk Honeycutt

PARK CITY -- The Australian gangster movie "Animal Kingdom" is a brooding, intimate, clear-eyed look at the precipitous downfall of a family in the Melbourne underworld. This crime film is not jokey like a Quentin Tarantino film, nor an epic romance like a Francis Ford Coppola film. Instead writer-director David Michod opts for a naturalistic drama rich in psychology and attention to details. There's no glamour here, but one false move by anyone can result in death, so tension fills nearly every scene. The family business is nasty and wet -- wet as in blood.

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