Film review: Good for Nothing

Mike Wallis wanted to direct a “pavlova” western. He has – and even the Americans rate it.

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28th April, 2012

Film review

Mike Wallis can’t be the only New Zealand boy who spent his summer holidays in Central Otago walking around the hills imagining he was a cowboy in a western. But he’s the only one to have gone on to make a western of his own in that very landscape, along with other locations throughout the country. Good for Nothing is New Zealand’s first spaghetti (or as writer-director Wallis prefers it “pavlova”) western and, as unlikely as it sounds, it works. All that’s missing is badly synchronised dubbing into English and Lee Van Cleef. Even the Americans think so, with a successful ...

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