AlexLum

As a big fan of the "Police Rescue" TV series, I waited eagerly for the feature film to be released, and was disappointed when it was only on in Australian cinemas for about a week and I missed it. Years later, having seen it at last, I can see why it tanked at the box office. All the best elements of the TV series have been removed and made it a bland and disappointing effort. Instead of big screen action and suspense, the story mostly concerns the mysterious past of new recruit Lorrie Gordon, and her relationship with Mickey. It's disappointing when a feature film of a TV series can't even match one of the series' more dull episodes. To top it off, the film ends with actor Gary Sweet singing a terrible cover version of "Most People I Know (Think That I'm Crazy)", which Australians will incredulously recall was actually released as a single.

The only thing that makes this film worth seeing is a young Cate Blanchett in her first film role.

This movie should be shown to film students to show them how not to make a documentary! Badly shot, lousy sound, terrible interviewing technique. Worst of all, Broomfield has no idea what his "film" is about - he meanders aimlessly around Seattle talking to some of the most loathsome people ever committed to celluloid, unable to decide whether he is chronicling Kurt Cobain's childhood and the genesis of a rock star, trying to show that Cobain was murdered, demonising Courtney Love or campaigning for his right to free speech.

As his legal and financial resources ran dry, Broomfield should have given up and hopped on the next plane back to Britain rather than cobbling together this hotch-potch piece of character assassination which doesn't even attempt to put across any valid point of view or delve remotely deeply into the topics he broaches.