Review of Standing Room Only

"Standing Room Only" is a 10-minute live action short film from 2003, so this one has its 15th anniversary next year already. The writer and director is Deborra-Lee Furness, an Australian filmmaker, and her origin goes well with the cast inclusion of superstar Hugh Jackman here. However, there are more familiar names in the cast certainly, such as Gambon, Dahl, Mastrantonio or Lumley and also Andy Serkis even, who plays a pretty absurd character. Anyway, this is the story of a couple people waiting for a show and more than half of the short film is them waiting and interacting with each other while being in line. When the show finally starts, it is also over very quickly and there is a little revelation at the very end that is not good enough though to really save the mediocrity. There is basically no dialogue in here almost, so you can watch this even if you aren't fluent in English. For me, however, it is not good enough for a recommendation and I say this as a Hugh Jackman film. Thumbs-down.