The Rover

2014 "Fear the man with nothing left to lose."
6.4| 1h43m| R| en| More Info
Released: 18 July 2014 Released
Producted By: South Australian Film Corporation
Country: Australia
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10 years after a global economic collapse, a hardened loner pursues the men who stole his car through the lawless wasteland of the Australian outback, aided by the brother of one of the thieves.

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Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.
ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
mkivtt This movie is pretty well-made, as in decent production, but that can't save its enormous flaw: a laughable plot. Somehow, in this post-apocalyptic world, shops are still open - even motels. People trade for US dollars. You'd think that the only thing of value would be actual goods: canned food, water, bullets, gas, medicine, and the like... but people only want paper dollars. Wow. I just can't overlook this ridiculous idea and it causes the entire movie to fall flat on its face.There are others, as well, almost equally bad. Cars still drive. I guess gas, air compressors, and spare parts are easy to come by when the world has collapsed? People live in the desert, out of all places, yet we never get an answer to how they actually get water and survive. Every place has electricity.These flaws are just mind-numbingly bad and cause an immediate disconnect from immersion. You just can't watch the movie without wondering "wow, how could they possibly pretend the world would still be like that."The main character is a total POS and you don't care if he lives or dies. Actually, I take that back: I hoped he'd die, because he's a scumbag.I do have to give a hat tip to the guy from Twilight, who did an amazing job playing a weird, nervous, unstable guy. Great job. Guy Pearce on the other hand was as one-dimensional as a piece of paper.Don't waste you time.
Tss5078 In the very near future, the government of Australia has completely collapsed. The cities are run by the military and the outback has turned into the wild west. A daring crime has just taking place, four men took out an army barracks, and only three returned, but while fleeing, they crashed their car, luckily, there is one by the side of the road. That car belongs to a man named Eric, and he really loves his car. Eric (Guy Pearce) jumps into the damaged car and chases after the men, only to lose them. He attempts to track them, when he's approached by a man claiming to be the fourth man left for dead, and Eric promises him, if he doesn't help him get his car back, the man will be dead for sure this time. The Rover certainly is a bizarre story and I honestly couldn't believe some of the place it went to, but in the end the story was really ingenious. Guy Pearce stars in his best role since Momento. I mean he really was the perfect choice for Eric and fit this role like a glove. Pearce is paired with Rob Pattinson who I couldn't stand until I saw this movie. My only experiences with Pattinson to this point had been a brief appearance in Harry Potter, and a couple of god awful Twilight movies. I honest thought he was just another one of these good looking guys, who couldn't act, but I was wrong. His character had so many dimensions to it, having to deal with a mental illness, while trying to understand conflicting emotions that he never had to deal with before. It was a tremendous performance. The film does have it's slow points and some of scenes are just sick and twisted, much better suited for a different genre, but all in all I really enjoyed this film. It was something different for a change in a unique setting. While it lacked any kind of background and the dialogue was almost nonexistent, one almost felt like you didn't really need it to understand or enjoy this film.
rvearl Perhaps the most stupid film ever made. Absolutely without any redeeming qualities.
johndoemofo What started off as a potential retelling of Mad Max quickly turned into a propaganda film.I had to stop the movie at 20 minutes in, after seeing 3 different homosexual scenes, the last one being 'grandma' offering up her young grandsons for sex with the main lead, a man.Avoid this like the Bubonic Plague.