The Rover

Australia   Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson.

Some unnamed bad thing has happened ten years ago. In this brave new world people are grubby and seem to shoot each other a lot with no apparent consequences. Our two leads are nearly inarticulate; there is no exposition. We are left to guess at what's happened, why. But the electrical grid seems to work, trains go by...the world of now continues in some way, in some where.

GP has his car stolen in the opening scene. He spends the entire movie chasing it and the three men down. We aren't told why until the final scene...even then it is unclear.

So the film asks us to endure nearly 2 hours following filthy, murderous, silent men around for an unspecified reason.

A very bleak view of humanity, the present and the future.

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