Jack Irish: Dead Point
by Matt Cameron; dir. Jeffrey Walker (ABC, 2014)
The plot makes little sense (particularly with regards provenance of the red book). The performances, however, are generally very good. Barry Humphries has a minor roll and adds a touch of class. Jack Irish still doesn’t fully convince as a lead character.
Jack Irish: Black Tide
by Matt Cameron; dir. Jeffrey Walker (ABC, 2012)
New film, same plot. The support characters do more or less what they did in ‘Bad Debts’—as does Jack Irish himself, wandering about like a mildly concussed soccer parent, untangling deadly conspiracies. Guy Pearce straddles the line between world-weary and cardboard.