Film Guide

“I wouldn’t recommend going to jail, I wouldn’t recommend my life to anybody. It’s a bloody dog’s life, a shit life, a terrible life.”
That’s how Fat Belly starts off, with Mark ‘Chopper’ Read apparently being remorseful about his life. The problem is he’s only remorseful one other time in the 80-minute run-time, and for only a brief few seconds. The rest of this so called documentary is more of an ego trip, with Mark Read talking about everything he’s done in his life, the people he’s messed up or killed, his moral view of the world, all done in the same happy manner as people usual use for reminiscing about their first love.
Mark warbs us that his life was shit, but then tells us just how much fun it was.
And never is there any other side to the story than his own. Sure he’s being asked questions by an off camera interviewer, who doesn’t really seem to know the art of interviewing and never gets Mark to go any deeper than his rampant ego trip. It may just be that Mark shuts down and refuses to understand any questions he doesn’t want to answer, but any decent interviewer worth their salt would keep probing until their subject at least contradicted himself. 
In reality the whole thing feels like it was funded by Mark and he’s the one calling the shots.
A disappointing, one-sided fakeumentary that is so far from the expose it claims to be that it runs the risk of being called fiction



Reviewed by: Jonathan Read
Release date: December 10th, 2009
Stars: Mark ”Chopper” Read
Length (Minutes): 90
Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1
Languages: English
Supported Audio: Dolby Digital Surround 2.0
Studio: Vendetta Films