September Movie  Reviews
From the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival

Risk

A marketable Australian production starring the talented Bryan Brown showing his great acting strength once again on the big screen. With Brown and his supporting co-stars, Tom Long and Claudia Karvan we see a fantastic trio who really gel on the screen with sexual chemistry and devious plotting.

Brown is the aging insurance adjuster who makes Long his protégé. Karvan is the bitchy, crooked lawyer who, with Brown, suckers Long into their game. Together risks are taken, money made, and the big guys get ripped off.

It is refreshing to see an Aussie flick that doesn’t portray an Australian as an idiot carrying a really big knife.

Allen White is the sexy director who could be on the screen. He could also be very dateable if he was single. ;-)

~Sheila, September 2000

Risk was an entertaining movie about honor, trust, morals and scamming money from a big insurance comapny. Bryan Brown, Claudia Karvan and Tom Long were all perfectly cast for their roles. I couldn’t have imagined anyone different being quite as believeble.

Long plays Ben Madigan, a fresh faced, somewhat naive young man who truly believes that by working at an insurance company as a claims adjuster he can help people. Kreisky (Bryan Brown) is Ben’s boss and mentor. Slowly Ben is pulled into a corrupt world by Kreisky and Kreisky’s girlfriend, Louise (Claudia Karvan.) Although Ben is doing nothing illegal himself, he’s a major part of the scheme concocted by Louise and Kreisky to bilk the insurance company out of thousands of dollars. Louis seduces Ben in attempt to keep him happy, and therefore compliant.

Things begin to go awry as the stakes are set even higher. Ben is faced with some harsh truths about the people around him as well as himself. Was it all worth the risk?

~Trixie, September 2000

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