American, everything about the lair scenes made sense...I just hadn't heard that kangaroo song before or seen a game of cricket but I know what it is. I loved Mick's answer to the question of why they were sent too Australia.
I'm more confused by Mick's motivations and the ending. I don't remember much of the first movie so maybe I'm missing something but Mick's motivation for killing seems to be entirely that he hates foreigners and tourists...which is fine but he has no problem murdering the 2 Australian cops and the old couple. So in the movie he ends up killing 4 Australians and only 2 foreigners. So his explanation of hating foreigners doesn't really make sense and he's just a psycho killer of anyone.
Which leads me to the end...the only way it makes sense to me is if the Australian police are "in on it" not to the point of knowing Mick personally and protecting him, but knowing someone is killing foreigners and them being ok with it and pinning the crimes on another foreigner to cover it up. If not I don't see how Paul could get blamed for the murders. At the end he's been clearly been heavily tortured, he's covered in blood, wounds, and his fingers have been grinded to stumps, he's been randomly dumped on the streets and hes desperately seeking help from the police. I don't see how they could ignore all that and pin the murders on him without some cover up thing going on.
The problem with that is the same with Mick's motivation though, if they are "in on it" well there taking a net loss here 3 foreigners go down at the cost of 4 Australians...2 of which are cops...hard to think they'd be ok with that.
I did like the movie though and I like the anti foreigner thing but it just doesn't make sense. I love Mick, if he wasn't a psycho killer he seems like someone I'd wanna be friends with. Which might be what makes him so disturbing.
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