The Rover

Quietly ferocious movie. Just the way I like 'em. Michod's use of music, and sound in general, and especially the absence of it, continues to fascinate me. Amazing performances all around. LOVED IT.

Grim postapicolic drama swt in outback AU. You can almost taste the dirt. It probably doesnt bring anything new to the genre but the fine performances from the cast kept me glued to the screen.

Still don’t know why Eric was so hellbent in getting his car back. Maybe something to do with making people take responsibility for their actions?

Slow burning Australian post-apo with great lead from Guy Pearce and awesome performance from Robert Pattinson.

Loved the reveal at the end, it had me screaming at my TV "of course!". It's great when movies do that.

Fantastic watch!

it's nice when u can't tell what is going to happen

As bleak, dusty, dry and dour as the Australian vistas it frames, The Rover is a depressingly angsty look at the world post economic collapse for two people who've lost everything. More harrowing than a zombie apocalypse and made more interesting by never fully explaining itself, The Rover is dark and depressing, with an undercurrent of bubbling anger that is only sparingly released. When everything finally clicks into place, you'll still come away hollow, but you'll probably never forget the journey that it takes you on.

I thought this was a nice change of pace from the crap I have seen coming out of Hollywood the last couple of years.

All this over a rusty car?

Shitty shit

I tried, I really did, but can’t really like this movie. I’m a big fan of post apocalyptic movies but this lacks a lot as far as what is going on in the world or even in the country and found myself skipping ahead constantly after about the halfway mark, it’s just slow paced and I didn’t particularly care for any character. Certainly not the psychopath that kills everyone indiscriminately for his car, not the character played by Pattinson as some kind of half wit.

Finally skipping to when he finally finds the guys who take his car it moves equally as slow, but I watched to the end (15 minutes left) to see if there was a big “reveal” and what it ended up being is very underwhelming. Very discount John Wick.