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...racquetmen dropped some matches, but even their losses were impressive. In the seventh spot John Dineen was edged out in the fifth game of his match by a mere point, and number two Mitch Reese lost in a fifth game tie-breaker to Bryan Roberts, who until this match had played in the top slot for UPenn...
Desaulniers the younger lost to Tiger John Nimick 3-1 in a seesaw bout which provided spectators with both tie-breaker play and a lopsided 15-4 laugher that Nimick took...
...Breaker Morant persuasively posits a parallel between this century's first large-scale colonial conflict (the Boer War) and its most recent (Viet Nam). It derives from that analogy an immediacy that one does not often find in films set in the dimming past. But there is a larger success: this very traditional-looking film is dramatically taut, full of strongly developed characters who never deteriorate into good-guy, bad-guy spokesmanship. There is no doubt that the soldiers committed the crimes with which they are charged. But their defense attorney (well played by Jack Thompson) argues that...
...heart, Breaker Morant is a courtroom drama: its basis is a play that was, in turn, based on a historical incident. There are well-staged flashbacks that grant the film a life and movement outside its judicial chamber. But there is plenty inside too, thanks in particular to Edward Woodward's fine, full-throated performance in the title role. Breaker is a hard man with a broad romantic streak...
Soldier, poet and singer, with a whimsically ironic acceptance of his fate, Breaker approaches the dimensions of a Renaissance grunt. If the film that bears his name is perhaps a bit too much cut on the square, if its technique does not quite match its fine eye for moral distinctions, it is nonetheless another distinctive achievement from the fast-rising Australian film industry. -By Richard Schickel