It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

LONG WEEKEND tells a story with an intriguing premise. In it, a bickering couple spend a weekend on the Australian coast, where they soon find themselves at the mercy of a vengeful nature determined to make amends for their abuse of their environment. It's an eerie, subtle and atmospheric piece of film-making that most resembles a '70s-era BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, with the emphasis on psychological over physical terror.Sadly, I ended up wanting to like this film a lot more than I actually did. Although the premise is excellent, the execution just isn't that hot. Way too much of the running time is spent with the two obnoxious characters bickering and fighting all of the time, which makes for a sometimes excruciating viewing experience; I was praying that nature would hurry up and give these guys their just deserts.The acting is mediocre at best, but the real problem lies with Colin Eggleston's direction, which fails to make the best of his set-up. Sure, the animal attack sequences are fairly well-staged, and there's no denying the inevitability and power of THAT ending, but the rest of it is just a little, well, dull. I just didn't get the level of eeriness from it that I needed; it pales in comparison to BLAIR WITCH, which showed less but which was a whole lot more effective as a horror film.

How this film wound up at 95 minutes is one great mystery? Oh wait now I remember, it's because it is redundant beyond belief. You get constantly repeated scenes of eerie noises, rustling underbrush, looking out to sea, and meaningless dialog between two unlikable characters. That's why! This is really nothing more than one long camping trip gone bad, and you will be quickly bored by the total lack of substance. In fact, the material offered would have difficulty filling out a one hour "Twilight Zone" episode. At 95 minutes everything is stretched beyond belief, and since you really won't care about the annoying bickering couple anyway, I suggest avoiding this long and tedious movie. - MERK

I saw this film on the strength of how Tarantino raved about it as some kind of unknown classic on the Not Quite Hollywood documentary.The 92 minutes it took to watch Long Weekend seemed like 3 weeks.The film is well made but as it is such a thin, boring story with poor dialogue, bad acting and two main characters who are so unlikable that it was impossible to care about them, this was destined to be a real drag.I usually write longer reviews than this but I'm not prepared to give up any more time on this film.Avoid it.

From reading the other reviews I am apparently in the minority here. I truly enjoy eerie, deliberately paced Aussie films like Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Last Wave, but I need to care about or at least empathize with the main characters. These 2 protagonists just left me cold. I couldn't believe for one second that they would go off to the wilds on a long weekend of roughing it, and it was no fun watching them bicker and sulk for 90 minutes. Even when things are going downhill and any sensible person would get the hell out of there, the guy behaves like a total tool and stays. The big revelation at the hour mark seemed like a ridiculous plot device thrown in to keep the viewer interested, rather than a real life situation, and did nothing to explain why the wife would have ever agreed to the weekend trip to the outback beach.I will give both actors credit as they obviously tried hard with their characters, but the script gives them nothing to work with. To call this a classic as some here have done is extremely generous. I'd suggest watching a lot more films before bestowing that honor on this flick. For a more fun "nature turns the tables on man" flick, watch Frogs from 1972; it's silly but enjoyable. For a truly creepy lost in the woods movie, stick with Blair Witch Project.