Russell Crowe was 28 years old when Romper Stomper was released. It was just his fifth film and it would be another three years until he had a break out with his co-starring role in The Quick and the Dead and L.A. Confidential two years after that.
He was still eight years from his true break out in Gladiator.
Crowe looks younger in Romper Stomper, an Austrailian film about the decline of a rabble-rousing Neo-Nazi gang in Melbourne as they terrorize the community and battle the growing number of Asian immigrants.
Based on a real guy and allegedly inspiring an actual murder, the film is eerily like the film This is England including the punk influences, the Neo-Nazism, the charismatic lead man and the veritable fall from grace. It’s also a screenshot of the psychology of crime not unlike Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. Except the gang on the latter killed and pillaged indiscriminately. I guess the Neo Nazis can be credited for having a mission statement. A fine line between sociopaths and cultish personalities.
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