Nicole Kidman: 'Am I any good' in 'Australia'? Your answer?

Nicole Kidman was delightful in Australia. The character developed over the course of the film and Nicole did a fine job. There was chemistry with Hugh Jackman (but then again Hugh Jackman makes everyone look great because of his amazing charisma). Best for me was when Nicole was funny - the scene when she is traveling to her new home and there was this pack of kangaroos . . . And when she comforted Nullah (sp?). Well-done multi-faceted work.

Being a Hollywood Child myself....Kidman is watching paint dry.....No chemistry......No expression....No feeling...No soul......Zero....The film failed in everyway......I suggest actresses realize that they gracefully need to study their craft...They arent the little tarts anymore...And study Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Helen Mirren......I would be embarrassed...She wasnt great in the beginning.....Come on!

I think Nicole Kidman is a good actress but not a great one, though she could be. She is just okay in Moulin Rouge (overrated by it's cult followers). She was great in The Hours but so were all three women, they were equal in that film and Ms. Julianne Moore deserved that oscar that year for her tour de force in Far From Heaven. I found Nicole's greatest moments in To Die For, Eyes Wide Shut, Dogville and The Others, but many dont agree with me. I think she needs to relax and take on some independent films. In most of what Kidman does I always see this underlying fear that SHE does not trust herself as an actress. She is better than she thinks she is, so if she would be more confident and work with more exciting directors we might get some better work from her. She has had great moments but I dont think she is a great actress.

Well personally I thought Nicole was great in this! She really let herself go and be silly, which was nice for a change :)

YES, Nicole is fantastic in "Australia"!

Ms. Snead - please do some basic fact-checking. Nicole did NOT speak with Sydney Herald.

As to Nicole "fleeing" Australia with Keith and Sunday Rose when the Sydney premiere was over, Sunday Rose was not even in Australia at that time. That's why Nicole and Keith had to rush back to their little baby who stayed behind in Nashville upon the doctor's advise.

As to what she told the radio station 2dayFM, why don't you have a listen and decide for yourself how the Aussie press took an almost 6-weeks old radio interview and prnted her words out of context. Here's the link: http://www.2dayfm.com.au/shows/kyleandjackieo/listen/podcasts - check out the podcast for Friday November 21 2008

Nicole was good in Malice with Alec Baldwin when she had freckles and face moved completely. She was very very good in To Die For (where she should have been nominated for an Oscar) but then something happened. She started to talk in a whisper like Marilyn Monroe and yes, I could not get over the fact her face/forehead does not move anymore. I know actresses get botox and some go a little too far but with Nicole it seems the toxin from the botox made her acting less believable. She was a good actress when she had something to prove to the industry that she was more than just "Mrs. Tom Cruise" (Katie take note of this).

As a critic/playwright/screenwriter, I think it all boils down to the material. First how can one blame any one person for a film's success or failure?

Personally, I LUV, Nicole Kidman, even more since I saw her in person at the Toronto Film Festival ( Dogville) Her acting, well she doesn't act, she performs. Like Bettye, Lauren and Carmen ( Miranda) her presence in the film makes people go to the show. Her acting, well she acted very well in Margot and Fur. But I think her finicky fans only like her when she's, well nude. Eyes, etc. As she ages gracefully perhaps its time to just be Nicky, I mean even Tom Cruise made a come back satirizing him self in Tropic and that V film.

Nicole honey, you're the only good thing in Australia.

I was so disappointed reading that Nicole Kidman said such things about her acting in Australia (by the way AUSTRALIA WAS A FANTASTIC, BRILLIANT FILM). She was very good in that and had no reason to speak like this about her work. I absolutely believe that an actor, or director should always defend their work no matter what. Specially Kidman, who was calling Australia her 'dream movie', the 'best thing I've ever done', 'I am connected to this film so much that I've never before with any of my movies'. I read such things and so many more hundreds of times in magazines, newspapers, websites, I watched her talking this way about the film on podcasts, interviews etc. She even connected the 'miracle' of her daughter's birth with 'Austalia' and now she goes: "It's just impossible for me to connect to it emotionally at all." For me she betrayed her effords first as the leading actress of the movie, her director, whom ironically she claims she abores, her co-stars and everyone involved in the project and gave their soul for it. Was she so affected by the critics? Was she so affected that HUGH JACKMAN came out completely unscathed and most of time praised by critics instead of her? But wait a minute. Not ALL reviews were bad!!? I would say that opinions were divided. In metacritic the film's score was 53 out of 100, in rottentomatoes 52 and according to forums about Australia most people loved it. But even if all these weren't true, she should still defend Australia, she should defend her work and not defame it. WE are the ones who will judge her acting, I mean the audience, and see should know that a big part of us liked Australia as a whole, and that "whole" definetely includes her. The olny thing that she achieved with her statements was to become a derision and of course to give the final shoot to her career. Pity...

I Think Nicole Kidman is a terrific actress and I have been watching her powers increased with each movie. She is a beautiful and private woman and somehow I thinj there is a little bit of envy.

I saw Australia twice (so far) and I think is a great movie not very well understand by a lot of people. It is a tribute to movies!

Nicole was terrific!

She is a truly terrific movie star and the SOLE reason to enjoy her movies the way Davis, A. Hepburn, Taylor, Shearer, Fonda and Streep are!