Chopper (film)
Chopper is a 2000 Australian crime film written and directed by Andrew Dominik and based on the autobiographical books by Mark Chopper Read. The film stars Eric Bana as the title character and costars Vince Colosimo, Simon Lyndon, Kate Beahan and David Field. It has a cult following.
He is released in 1986, revisiting enemies and friends whom he cannot differentiate anymore. He reunites with his former girlfriend Tanya Kate Beahan, but suspects that she is involved with one of his old victims, Neville Bartos Vince Colosimo. He tracks Bartos down, shoots him and takes him to the hospital, unabashedly claiming that he has a green light courtesy of the Police to exterminate scum. When Chopper learns that he is now the target of a deathcontract, he goes after his old friend Jimmy, only to find him worn out and poverty stricken by drugs with a daughter and a junkie fiance who is pregnant with another child.He kills a criminal known as Siam Sammy the Turk Ozerkam at a bar, but gets away with it by claiming it was selfdefence. He eventually ends up back in prison where he writes a book about his experiences in the Melbourne underworld. The book becomes a bestseller and Chopper becomes a criminal legend. ........
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