This isn't good!
Nicole Kidman is reportedly receiving bad reviews for her role in the upcoming Baz Luhrmann movie
Australia. There was a recent press screening for the film that left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths. One complainer/reviewer wasn't interested in shredding the movie as a whole; but more so the movie's main character, played by Nicole Kidman.
The UK Times Online had this to say:
Australia the movie, however, has one huge problem. It stars Nicole Kidman. Big mistake. Big, big mistake. At a stroke, the world's female cinemagoers will say as one: "I'm not going to see it if she's in it."
Kidman is one of those women who turns other women off. And no, not just because she's pretty and we're jealous. It is because we perceive, and men don't, that she's one of the most overrated actors in the world, a woman who has been the kiss of death in practically every movie she has starred in.
Kidman is exquisitely accomplished at being awful. Did anyone see Cold Mountain? The sweeping American epic (note: another epic) foundered on the rocks of her gormless mirror-gaze. She can't act. Instead, she drifts around films like a lost porcelain doll, looking frozen, brittle and vapid, staring at the camera with her oh-golly-look-how-I'm-looking-interesting blue eyes.
The Chicago Tribune wrote:
Australia offers everything from a cattle drive to Nicole Kidman's rendition of "Over the Rainbow" to hordes of Japanese Zeros zeroing in on screaming children during the early 1942 attack on Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory, two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The only thing missing is an iceberg. It's hard, with Australia, to invest in a romance so synthetically preordained, featuring an orphan who is less a person than a history lesson. At times the film appears on the verge of morphing into a singing-cowboy musical. With Zeros.
Not a good start! And the film isn't even out yet!
