Karl Urban, Matthew Sunderland, Lois Lawn
The film is based on the Aramoana Massacre that occurred on Nov. 13 and 14, 1990, in New Zealand. Resident David Gray, an unemployed gun collector, went on a rampage in which 13 people were shot dead,...( read more
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DVD Release Date: June 17, 2008
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May 28, 2009I often sit back to watch a "BIG" film only to end up thinking "What's the point?". Take X-Men Origins: Wolverine for example, a prequel about an indestructible man. We know he lives, we know he can't really be hurt. Then I watch a film like Out of the Blue. All I knew was the ti...( read more)
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July 29, 2008One of the only movies to totally upset me.Based on the true story set in New Zealand about a lone gunman thats go's berserk killing 13 men,women and children in a rurul town in 1990.To make it unsettling is that it plays like a documantry and that the performances are so real th...( read more)
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July 23, 2008Disturbing story of a lone gunman on a killing spree in New Zealand which is well handled but offers little by way of explanation for sn increasingly common phenomenon.
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April 26, 2008Fueled by paranoia and self-deprecating anger, a man kills 13 people in a small town in New Zealand on the 13th of November 1990. The filmmakers did a good job of conveying his emotions and state of mind and has some nicely done cinematography and ac...(read more)ting all around.
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August 1, 2009This was a beautiful and disturbing film about a madman in New Zealand. Based on a true story.
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April 5, 2009Astonishing, distressing and tense reconstruction of a spree-killing in a sleepy '90s New Zealand community. No happy ending here.
Defining moment: The heroic little lady who crawls for help as the bullets fly. -
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December 16, 2008This film made me a bit queasy. The event of the massacre could have made a good picture, I suppose, but this is not it. The exposition before the killings seems almost sadistic in the way it builds an idyllic town's morning routine... we learn that two of the (we assume at the t...( read more)
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September 23, 2008This movie was filmed in New Zealand and based on a true massicar! i live in New Zealand and to watch this movie i was pretty disturbed...I reckon its a pretty good film from NZ. One of the bests i could say. It had such a sad and touching story, but if we thought it was bad, how...( read more)
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March 4, 2008love this movie and btw this movie is 99.99% accurate. As close to the true story as it couldve been
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