Two Hands (2005)

People are voting emotionally.

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Something was missing here. On the whole Two Hands was low on something. It feels very Americaniz'd. Not really a word but I'll use it. Some bits of it are very inventive like Ledger's dead brother giving his monologue at the start. It has a good mixture of humor and action, and I really did feel the intensity of Ledger's predicament, like walking in his shoes, where there were some really intensely scary moments. But even though I did like the film, I didn't feel like there was much holding it together, as really the story is in no way in original, but it is fun, the way the movie's told, though I couldn't help feel this, was borrowing from other pics, especially as far as Tarantino territory was concerned. The humor I will say was many a thing I liked, which included Field's gun backfiring on him (shouldn't of put them in the wash, Dave) + that 35 year old woman slow carking it. Two Hands is tasty though and and as a Summer treat, I really felt that fear Ledger, was feeling when running from the guns. As Pando, I would say this was Brown's best ever singular acting performance, where he has reached his height as this murderous and notorious crime figure. One guy who works the Cross, and one guy you don't ever wanna cross. Ledger was so so, while bubbly Byrne was better as the love interest, where the other smaller performers impressed, especially Pando's mob. Yes Two Hands is still a pumped up watch, but really doesn't earn enough status, where I wouldn't feel comfortable as passing off as good. Great opening credit sequence, as well as Ledger's shock admission at the end, about never boarding a plane, which was a killer end of dialogue.

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This is my favourite Australian film, not because the cinematography, or acting is flawless. Just for heaps of tiny things.Jimmy (Ledger) is an average guy, wanting just a little bit more than the tiny bit he has in life. Pando (Brown) is the quintessentially Australian, crime boss who can give it to him. In the first scene Jimmy's being dragged into the desert by Pando's guys with guns out and stubbies on. We don't know how he got here, but we're about to find out. We're soon introduced to out narrator: A dead guy, digging at some dirt. He explains yin-yang; the good in the bad and the bad in the good.Two hands is part caper, part thriller, and a bit of romance. And it works. It's an unlikely story of bad luck and insane mishaps. Our narrator ghost is there to remind us that the preternatural isn't all that unnatural. Fate happens. No it's not cinematic genius (though Ledger's charismatic smile might count as a masterpiece). It doesn't break boundaries, or overturn canon. But the rough-edged characters are hilarious, the plot never fails to entertain, and I'm not sure there's anything like it floating around...Watch it. Or watch it again! If you don't ROFL during their "crime spree", you can direct your disappointment this way ;).

I just rented this at the local discount video store and am glad I did. It's a pitch-black comedy, thriller and romance all at once.Jimmy (Heath Ledger) is a sweet-natured, dim-witted amateur boxer and aspiring thug who screws up -- big-time -- his first assignment from the local crime boss in the sleazy section of Sydney, then spends the rest of the film trying to put things right.This is a small, satisfying film that even manages to be a character study of sorts, and, at the end, we see a kind of rough justice exacted by a street kid who may end up being the next local mob kingpin (or, should I say, queenpin, because I had the impression that this was actually a tomboy-like girl, in an excellent performance).If you like seeing a slender, bare-chested, baby-faced, curly-headed Heath Ledger -- and, hell, who doesn't? -- you will like this film.P.S. To me, a less-obvious-than-the-others-cited, but still apt, comparison would be to "The Good Girl," an even blacker comedy with Ledger's recent Brokeback Mountain co-star, a very young Jake Gyllenhaal.P.P.S. Others have listed several other good films from Oz. To that, let me add "The Sum of Us," starring a young, adorable and then-unknown Russell Crowe (Ledger is a younger Crowe, or Crowe is an older Ledger, however you want to look at it.).