
Ten years after a global economic collapse, a cold-blooded drifter traverses the scorched Australian outback on a mission to track down the men who stole his last remaining possession - his car. When he crosses paths with a badly wounded member of the gang, he takes the vulnerable, naïve young man along as his unwitting accomplice.... (Full plot summary below)
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Ten years after a global economic collapse, a cold-blooded drifter traverses the scorched Australian outback on a mission to track down the men who stole his last remaining possession - his car. When he crosses paths with a badly wounded member of the gang, he takes the vulnerable, naïve young man along as his unwitting accomplice.
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| Boston HeraldJames VerniereYet another post-apocalyptic, dystopian vision, this one from ANIMAL KINGDOM auteur David Michod, nasty, minor and dazzling. |
| Fresno BeeRick BentleyThe Rover" fails because Michôd has gone for style over substance -- a mistake that turns the movie into a wasteland. |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsThe Rover is a sterling example of the new Australian noir. |
| Scene-Stealers.comEric MelinIt's not a pleasant movie, but The Rover twists genre tenets to expose the need for connective tissue that lies somewhere beneath the dark depths of men's souls. |
| Cinemalogue.comTodd Jorgenson... generates enough character-driven suspense to overcome its familiar genre trappings. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenThere are 102 minutes here, and not a single one lacks tension. |
| FilmDrunkVincent ManciniA beautifully shot, hyper-violent, post-apocalyptic Twin Peaks car movie starring a mud-caked murderous road hobo that either needs to be more articulate or more absurd, but sort of gets caught in between. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip MartinAnyone who lived through the past 40 years, with its cycles of economic crashes and fuel crises, might see this as a plausible horror scenario. |
| Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniAn evocative, moody road movie through the Australian Outback that's as sparse and dry as the desolate landscape it traverses, its deliberate rhythm punctuated by short periods of shocking, bloody violence. |
| The Stranger (Seattle, WA)Kathy FennessyIn the sweat-soaked Rover, everybody appears to have cut their own hair with a pair of rusty scissors, but the look is more The Proposition than Mad Max. |