Review of The Rover (2014) by Mancunian2014 — 23 Aug 2014

A really touching movie of two men who've apparently lost it all. The barren, Australian landscape only adds to this sense of despair but not in an overdone, butchered sort of way. The film leaves you yearning to know why Pearce's car was so special. It almost runs contradictory to the whole "nothing to lose theme" -- the car's obviously something he does not want lost in spite of it all. Therefore when people say this is a film about two men with nothing to lose, I don't quite buy that.

I also don't buy Pattinson's horrible attempt at a southern American accent. It's almost like he's just drunk or deranged instead. And I also failed to see some noteworthy bond between the two men which I think was the intention of the director. Pearce clearly cared about what what in that car a lot more.