MANNY LEWIS - film / by Cut to the chase




Oh boy.

It's usually actually a bit fun to blog about a film that's terrible but to be honest, it always hurts a little to do it to an Australian film.

This film is Australian. And it's pretty terrible.

Written by and starring comedian Carl Barron, you'd think there'd be a bunch of laughs but sadly, there's not much of that.

It's meant to be a "feel-good quest for love" for Barron's Manny Lewis but the character spends the vast majority of the film being depressed and you know what it's like to watch a film where the lead character is depressed? Depressing. And not very funny.

I'd tell you to give this a miss but I suspect this is the first you will have heard of it and given there was only four people in the session I was in on the weekend and it only came out a week ago, it'll be gone before you'd even thought seriously about seeing it. Another sad day for the Australian film industry.

If this film is in any way biographical, I think Barron ought to see a therapist instead of making a film next time he feels the urge.

Never one to mince words, News Ltd's Leigh Paatsch called it "one of the most truly terrible Australian films in living memory". 

Trailer here.