For Good

What I wanted was to make a film that respected and honoured the parents of the girl who is killed. Those people and their experiences were always my benchmark.

– Director Stuart McKenzie, Dominion Post, 19 June 2003

...For Good is so good in so many ways ... McKenzie touches on a multitude of topics from sexual violence, tougher sentencing, rubber-necking tragedy tourists, the role of the media, and fear, mourning and grief ... not a comfortable film, but an essential one.

– Margaret Agnew in the Christchurch Press, 6 March 2004

I immediately though it was unique, edgy and intelligent. It was also quite intimidating because it dealt with a lot of pretty dark stuff.

– Cinematographer Duncan Cole, Onfilm, February 2004