Rotten
Romper Stomper is A Clockwork Orange without the intellect.
Variety Staff, Variety
Romper Stomper
You've never seen anything like it.
1992 · 1h 34m · R
Action, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Geoffrey Wright
Overview
Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins' merry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity?
Director and cast
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79%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The cheap 'message' of the ending fails to salvage a film that at best is well-meant but misguided, at worst, flashy and garbled.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten
Exploits the frustration, anger and violence of a despicable subculture while excusing the glorification of its hate aesthetic as necessary "reporting."
Richard Harrington, Washington Post
Rotten
It's merely another violent art house picture, slumming modishly in the world of psycho-personalities, and exhibiting only occasional flashes of originality.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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