LETS GET SKASE is actually a very funny very well made film. Clobbered by the sneering media upon release and sinking without a trace - or a Skase - this film had the unforgivable fault of bad timing. The real Christopher Skase of the title actually.....died. And did so unpleasantly....so did the film at the box office. Now all that aside and separated from the media clutter upon release what do we have: a great looking film with a hilarious caper mentality beautifully filmed with a fun group of well cast males. Even the Skase impersonator is astonishing. Lachy Hulme (who?) stars and writes and heads a cast with a few great surprise performances: especially the normally seriously dramatic Alex Dimitriades offering a genuinely hilarious droll turn along with handsome lifesaver/commando Craig MacLachlan. The real delight for me was the absolutely charismatic and goofy Torquil Nielsen who has one of the great faces in Australian films. He is hardly ever seen ...maybe needs a better agent to get more profile. Like the equally disastrous timing of another comedy release DIANA AND ME (Princess Di was killed) which starred Toni Collette heading to London to meet you know who SKASE is overshadowed by the real demise of the real character it was lampooning. The Title comes from the bounty idea actually proposed one night on National TV. I remember well sitting in a deserted cinema laughing uproariously and wishing there was a big crowd equally delighted at discovering what a clever and well made comedy this film is. The media of the day did their very best to off put the entire population of Australia and unfortunately they listened instead of finding out for themselves. But I did and so should you.

After watching many Australian movies of all genres, it is interesting to find a movie such as this. Overall, Skase is an excellent movie. It has both comedy and action with a predominantly unknown cast who are all perfectly suited for their roles. It is well directed and the camera work is of a very high standard. I enjoyed this movie, because it was Australian, funny, entertaining but also because it is the kind of movie that I would be happy to watch regularly.

This film is a ripper! I loved it. after we finished watching it, me and my girlfiends watched it again, it was great. The dvd comments are really good too. I have never watched them before. And Alex is such a spunk. He is my fave actor. Anyway, great film.

Every so often a movie comes along that restores your faith in Australian film industry. Let's get Skase is not that film... But it does come damn close. First of all I'm sick of Australian films pretending they are comedies when they are clearly not. Let's get Skase, for all it's flaws, (Key being bad timing on it's release) is at least an honest attempt at comedy.The key to the film's success is it's complete disregard shown for it's subject matter. It has chosen not to attack the subject matter of the "chase for Skase" head on, but instead follow the fortunes of the people that tried to hunt him down. This is where the secret of the film lies, in it's characters. Setting up this group of misfits, not only makes for some hilarious sequences, but you can't wait for the point where two stories will inevitably collide.For those of you asking how to they get around the problem of "do they get him or not"? Let me just say, without giving too much away, that the last act of the film does not disappoint. Let's get Skase is a noble effort. Flaws aside.