Tracker (2002)
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 33
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 4
An engrossing drama.
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 1
An engrossing drama.
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Experimental director Rolf DeHeer's film The Tracker depicts a controversial moment in the Australian justice system, in doing so taking on a popular topic among Australian filmmakers--the complicated and too often racist relationship between Aboriginals and locals. When an Aboriginal tracker (David Gulpilil) leads the manhunt for a fugitive native, a series of atrocities are performed on the ancient tribe by a sadistic policeman participating in the search party. The line between savage and
Cast
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David Gulpilil
Tracker -
Gary Sweet
Fanatic -
Damon Gameau
Follower -
Grant Page
Veteran -
Noel Wilton
Fugitive
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All Critics (35) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (29) | Rotten (4) | DVD (5)
A high-minded film that at times verges on didacticism, The Tracker is redeemed by its adherence to a simple yet distinctive approach to storytelling and its uniformly strong acting.
Top CriticAn imposing film that tackles a serious theme with dignity and even audacity and that features production values of the highest quality.
See the film mainly for the quiet and powerful work of Gulpilil in the title role.
As the scorned but ever-resourceful guide, Gulpilil has the richest role and makes the most of it.
The Tracker is one of those rare films that deserves to be called haunting.
The Tracker has the punch of a good Western with a clean and direct script plus an adventurous use of songs and folk paintings.
strangely awkward in terms of film pacing
[T]he film emphasizes its fable qualities and sets the stage for its moral structure, which hinges on the merging of power and racism and the possibility of resistance.
[D]rags you across acres of despair, a harsh landscape of the angry, terrified side of human nature...
De Heer doesn't want the violence to distract from the sadness and the substance of the movie's mythic history lesson. It's an inventive idea, one that probably doomed the movie's commercial prospects here in the States.
An engrossing study of race and history in Australia.
The Tracker is the first significant movie to find its way into American theaters in 2005.
Specially composed songs makes the study of men driven by primitive cruelty and ruthless justice something of a tone poem.
Combines a classic movie-Western setting and narrative with a Heart of Darkness-like morality play.
Interspersed with moments of great suspense, the tragic cat-and-mouse survival adventure overshadows the heavy-handed didacticism.
Too often, The Tracker explains when it would be better to suggest.
An obvious, hot-coal piece of politically correct agitprop.
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- Tracker: "The only innocent black, is a dead black."
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