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*** / ****

Big yay for Sam Neil, the kid, the girl on the horse, the two dogs, and all of the New Zealand countryside. Everything around these characters is warm, interesting, and compelling.

Big nay for everything else, because the movie has weird tonal shifts and the material fits together awkwardly.
I kept thinking the whole movie rests so ridiculously on a misunderstanding, that perhaps they really should have gotten that cleared up rather than, you know, pursuing their escape so as to make them really look guilty. Of course, then we'd have no movie. I dunno, I guess I expected a reasonable adult in such a situation to tell the kid prematurely the fun was over.

Otherwise, very enjoyable. Cracked up when the cop was talking to the media and said they were gonna bring them in dead or alive, and then corrected himself.