We watched it all the way through. It was utterly sht. Kidman went from over-the-top to wooden. Yay for Botox. The blackfellah-standing-on-one-leg image of a zillion chintzy statues in bogan homes really annoyed me. Another blackfellah died pointlessly to make the whitefellah look more heroic.
And the Japanese land invasion of the island near Darwin... um, no.
It was badly-acted, boring, cliched, racist and too long. Hugh Jackman was hot, but my wife said that wasn't enough to save the movie. "Maybe if he was naked instead of just topless..."