Good for Nothing

I think the culture of the ‘Southern Man’ in New Zealand is very similar to that of the Western cowboy. It’s a tradition of a man of the land with few words or expressed emotions ...

– Writer/director Mike Wallis

Laugh out loud funny ... all the unspoken truths of the Old West — bad oral hygiene, unspeakable pain and, as the Gene Wilder of Blazing Saddles put it so succinctly, morons — are exploited for great comic effect, against a rather spectacularly ersatz Old West.

– Variety reviewer John Anderson, 7 March 2012

Good for Nothing is an exciting, funny and distinctly Kiwi take on the western ... Watching cowboys roam in Grahame Sydney country is a real thrill.

– Charlie Gates in The Press (Christchurch), 5 May 2011