Two Weeks Notice (2002)

International actor Karl Urban (the Lord of the Rings series) stars in this New Zealand production about the senseless massacre that took place in local seaside town Aramoana on the 13th and the 14th of November, 1990. Matthew Sunderland plays David Gray, an unemployed gun collector who, without warning, stalked the streets of the village with a high-powered automatic rifle while attempting to evade a brave police force with limited resources. By the end of the massacre, 13 people had lost their lives. This film from New Zealand director Robert Sarkies (CRIME 101) is a harrowing commemoration of the deceased, a s...
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tudy of madness, and a tribute to the heroes of the Aramoana incident.
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Waargebeurd verhaal over de gebeurtenissen die plaatsvonden op 13 November 1990 in het kleine plaatsje Aramoana, aan de zuidkust van Nieuw-Zeeland. Inwoner David Gray schoot met een automatisch geweer meerdere plaatsgenoten uit het hechte stadje dood, waarna de bevolking tesamen met een kleine politiemacht een angstige 24 uur beleeft.

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Out of the Blue, New Zealand writer-director Robert Sarkies' long-awaited follow-up to his 1999 feature debut Scarfies, recreates the events that led up to and surrounded David Gray's November 13, 1990, mass murder of 13 locals in the town of Aramoana, New Zealand. Sarkies, however, approaches the material not as exploitation or as an action picture, but -- like Terrence Malick in his 1973 true crime picture Badlands -- as an understated and detached drama. Sarkies uses a contemplative and reflective approach and a small-town pace and resists gratuitousness, intersecting several tales of casualties and survivors ...
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and downplaying the brutal violence. One story involves the contentious relationship between fiftysomething Jim (Timothy Bartlett) and his mother (Lois Lawn); another has a mom, Julia Anne (Tandi Wright) informing her daughter Rewa (Jacinta Wawatai) and her beau's children that they plan to share a house; and in a third, eccentric gun nut David Gray (Matthew Sunderland) cracks and guns down Julia's boyfriend, Gerry (Simon Ferry), in cold blood. These only represent the first three threads in a complex narrative tapestry; the story ultimately gives way to tense hours as the locals, realizing that a predator is on the loose and will kill anyone he can find, barricade their homes and cower in fear. Cinematographer Greig Fraser gives the picture a chilly, wintry aesthetic, rich with whites and blues. The film co-stars Karl Urban; Graeme Tetley co-authored the script with Sarkies.
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