The Rover (2014)

Very well executed

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

What a piece of crap. Don't bother to watch. It has no redeeming quality.

Oh boy!! I just finished seeing this, and I am blown away. This is a fantastic movie and I loved everything about it. I must admit I am surprised, that the total rating is at only 6,4 for the time being. The performances are incredible!! I expected a solid performance from Pearce (which he delivered) and happily surprised that also Pattison delivered a stunning and engaging performance. This movie comes highly recommended.

I am becoming ever more partial to Australian cinema. And the futuristic thriller "The Rover" has only served to amplify my growing admiration.Set a decade into the future after a catastrophic financial collapse, this severely stark story can't help but inspire a grim vibe of "The Road Warrior" smashes headlong into "The Book of Eli" variety of apocalyptic mood. The music is completely, and completely MIND-bending, Aussie indigenous. And the cinematography as realized throughout the ruthless terrain of the South Australian Outback by Natasha Braier is at once brutally gritty and strikingly spectacular.Guy Pearce is plain and simple one of the finest actors of our time. Pearce's searing depiction of a guy who, having lost everything that matters in his life, has nothing left to lose is as sympathetic as it is repugnant. And that ain't easy to pull off. With a lesser actor is would be impossible. And let it be said that Robert Pattinson is a sheer revelation. He is damn near unrecognizable here, both in appearance and affectation, as a mentally challenged, trigger-happy man-child who nonetheless fully comprehends when a blood brother has egregiously and unforgivably let him down.In the end we at last come to learn why Pearce's character of Eric is so viciously driven to recover the car a gang of ribald robbers had ripped off from him. And in that moment, and if possible, we find that we feel even more pity for the hopeless fate of this man doomed to be a rudderless rover for all the rest of his joyless days.Not exactly the cheery stuff of "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm", certainly. But then again, neither is the end of the world.

I was emotional...Im halfway through it and listening to Robert Pattinson tell his kidnapper that hes HUNGRY is like some sort of eye opener. Everyone sounds either Australian or Country honky tonk like. A car is stolen, a guy needs a gun, a midget sells guns... its weird like David Lynch...but really makes me feel what maybe I should have felt during watching Joseff Fiennes RISEN.I am gonna get back to my room and finish the second half but I suspect that its not gonna be awesome.... gotta keep on typing, because I need to fill up more space before I get to publish this...I totally could narrate more in depth what I envision personally as a revelation to what life has been like for the past ten years or longer...but I don't have to