I have just watched Ned Kelly and found it to be a very dark-sad movie- but after reading the history of the man turned legend-i found the movie as true to character-but as the director stated-it was his own depiction and not quoted by book-I found that Heath Ledger & Orlando Bloom made the characters believable. Ned felt wrongly convicted because of his station in life & took matters in to his own hands-but stayed true to family, mates & his convictions-i compared this movie to that of Braveheart or Robin hood-trying to sort out between the fiction and the facts everyone has their own feelings or opinions about things-it's all on the viewers perception-so in my opinion-i found this movie one of the better ones i've seen in a while.