In TV Week magazine, Paul Hogan spoke of the character: Mick's a good role model.

He estimates that a person might walk across it in three to four days, but he regards it as useless except for a gold mine that he refers to as "the Reserve Bank" and his "retirement fund".

Despite his macho approach and seemingly sexist opinions, the pair eventually become close, especially after Mick saves Sue from a crocodile attack.

The rest of the film depicts Dundee as a "fish out of water", showing how despite his expert approach to the bush, he knows little of city life.

She runs to the subway station to stop Mick from leaving and, by passing on messages through the packed to the gills crowd, she tells him she will not marry Richard, and she loves him instead.

Mick, who only receives the letter that morning, does not realize that Sue is in trouble until she phones from the kidnapper's house.

Mick uses his detective skills to discover that a film crew had been smuggling paintings that had supposedly been destroyed years earlier (during the Yugoslav Wars), and that they have killed a reporter for getting too close to the truth.

The guilty members of the crew are arrested, and Mick and Sue then finally get married back in Australia.

[8][9][10] He appeared in commercials for the Subaru Outback which, although a Japanese car, was given an Australian image to suggest its toughness and ability to compete with other sport-utility vehicles.