Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! Reviews
It's a triumph of documentary making, and a truly entertaining movie in its own right.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 4, 2019
An entertaining love letter to the sex and slasher films that emerged from the land down under.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 9, 2019
This is a documentary worth checking out. If you're remotely interested in exploitation movies, or indeed, world cinema itself, it's invaluable and thoroughly entertaining.
| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 15, 2017
It's almost criminal, the amount of fun filmmaker Mark Hartley has conducting this wildly salacious, enormously entertaining documentary.
| Aug 29, 2011
What's nice about a movie like this is that it gives you a sampling of this genre without making you sit down and watch hours and hours of movies.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 27, 2011
If you don't already love the underground world of masochistic movies, this will be a real eye-opener.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 13, 2011
It's a ribald and entertaining documentary, filled with great yarns and astonishing images from not only the finished films but from the making of them.
Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Oct 9, 2009
The onslaught of tastelessness begins even before the opening credits and continues nonstop for 103 deliciously sleazy minutes.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 8, 2009
You'll get more bang, boobs and blood for your buck here than with any other show in town.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 22, 2009
As recounted in Mark Hartley's entertaining documentary, twisted imaginations went wild after the post-'60s liberation from censorship and the introduction of tax breaks.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 21, 2009
This is as insightful a glimpse into a country's cinema as you're likely to see at this running time.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 20, 2009
It's a Documentary that's celebrating obscure films by showing a crapload of clips. I loved it! Film lovers who crave cult cinema aren't going to want to miss this opportunity to expand their knowledge.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 16, 2009
Not Quite Hollywood - lousy title, great peek back at the Ozploitation movement.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 16, 2009
It's all very foul, and completely entertaining.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 14, 2009
Not Quite Hollywood is jammed with well-preserved clips of the Aussie movies that started pushing the limits after censorship was essentially dropped in 1971.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 14, 2009
Not Quite goes on a little longer than it needs to, but if the success of a movie like this is measured by whether it makes you want to see some of the movies it revisits, then count me in.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 14, 2009
If Not Quite Hollywood is not quite convincing, it is quite entertaining.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 13, 2009
... a smartly made look at an otherwise neglected aspect of film history and culture, packed with colorful stories, witty observations, punky attitude and real history...
| Aug 12, 2009
What's cool and always kicky is seeing a country's irreverent movie trash being treated with such, well, reverence.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2009
All in all, this is a celebration of Australian exuberance, a national ethic of adventurousness and enormous charisma.
Full Review | Aug 7, 2009