"Like Buffalo Soldiers, Ned Kelly takes a dense novel as its source material - in this case, Our Sunshine by Robert Drewe - and applies liberal amounts of voiceover to both stitch together an episodic narrative and provide a flavour of the book. But Kelly was, of course, more than a book, and Jordan - perhaps hamstrung by a limited budget - elides key episodes, hurries others, and singularly fails to elucidate the precise relationships of the Kelly gang."
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Drama filmsBiographical filmsFilms based on true storiesFilms set in VictoriaFilms based on Australian novels
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Colin Kennedy, Ned Kelly Review, (25 Sep 2003).
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