Reviews

What about Sal, Australian independent feature film shot and edited very well and has a high production value . In the acting department Gerard O'Dwyer who plays Sal is the star and a standout. Gerard who is Down syndrome delivers a moving and visceral performance punctuated with his humour. As he says not all people who are Downs Syndrome are stereotypical and O'Dywer proves the point through his personality which comes through onscreen.

John Jarrett plays the role of the Sal's father conceived after a drunken one night stand and has not been in Sal's life from that brief fling. Sal's mother is dying and he sets of to find his father not heard of since 1983. Jarrett is convincing as the absent alcoholic father. Who finds redemption and life purpose through his newly aquatinted son.

The narrative flows in this feel good movie about life, death, failure ,addiction and love and makes us take a look at our own disabilities.

SPOILER: Cliched and predictable , why was the nail Emily Blunts character trod on in the stair tread in the first place, and after she trod on it why was it still there ? could have bent back and forwards until it broke , silently. Before she trod on it . How did the monster literally break out of a grain silo , but couldn't rip the roof of a small truck ? Why not wear slippers or soft soled shoes ? Who in the right mind falls pregnant in a post apocalyptic world , where the monsters kill by noise, hint , babies scream... a lot. Finally the military might of the worlds collective might and intelligence couldn't work out high pitches frequency's killed the rather cliched looking aliens.. really ? This was as bad as Titan with Sam Worthington , an insult to the voters intelligence in my humble opinion .