Chopper

...a tantalising debut from a brave, uncompromising director.

Bana is simply superb, both as the clean-shaven moon-faced young sociopath we encounter first of all, and then as the chubbier, gold-toothed, moustachioed headbanger he turns into.

...[in] Eric Bana the filmmakers have found, I think, a future star. He creates a character so fearsome and yet so clueless and wounded that we can't tell if the movie comes to praise or bury him.

With its black sense of humour and confident style, Chopper deserves to find an audience larger than the arthouse crowd.

The charismatic and explosive performance of Eric Bana holds together the conventionally plotted film.