Australians see Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read as a celeb crim, an underworld folk hero who writes best-sellers and does the rounds of the television chat shows when he's not serving time. Andrew Dominik, making his feature debut as a director, has adapted Chopper's memoirs with the enthusiastic consent of their author, and reveals him as a psychopathic egomaniac with an explosive and dangerous temper, who is virtually devoid of any moral sense.

Although Eric Bana better known in Australia as a stand-up comedian, plays him as an engaging villain with a deft talent for grotesque behaviour and caustic one-liners, the background is sad and violent.

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